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Las Vegas, 1905-1965

2009 History
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Release : 2009
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Las Vegas, 1905-1965 by : Lynn M. Zook

Download or read book Las Vegas, 1905-1965 written by Lynn M. Zook. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone thinks they know the story of Las Vegas: the showgirls, the gambling, the mob. But Las Vegas has always been much more. Families have lived here since its founding in 1905. After 1931, legalized gaming became the big tourist draw, and following World War II, the town began to market itself as ?America’s Playground.? That is when the famed Las Vegas Strip came into its own and downtown was dubbed ?Glitter Gulch.? These vintage postcards show how Las Vegas evolved from a dusty railroad town into the ?Entertainment Capital of the World,? while remaining a city filled with families and pioneering souls.

Las Vegas

2002 Las Vegas (Nev.)
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Release : 2002
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Las Vegas 1905

1975 Las Vegas (Nev.)
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Release : 1975
Genre : Las Vegas (Nev.)
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Book Synopsis Las Vegas 1905 by : Robin Ducharme

Download or read book Las Vegas 1905 written by Robin Ducharme. This book was released on 1975. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Documentary History of Las Vegas: 1905-1911

1990 Las Vegas (Nev.)
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Release : 1990
Genre : Las Vegas (Nev.)
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Book Synopsis A Documentary History of Las Vegas: 1905-1911 by : Gary P. BeDunnah

Download or read book A Documentary History of Las Vegas: 1905-1911 written by Gary P. BeDunnah. This book was released on 1990. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Young Las Vegas

2005 Las Vegas (Nev.)
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Release : 2005
Genre : Las Vegas (Nev.)
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Book Synopsis Young Las Vegas by : Joan Burkhart Whitely

Download or read book Young Las Vegas written by Joan Burkhart Whitely. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Las Vegas we know was conceived -- if anybody really conceived it -- in 1931, when Nevada liberalised its divorce and gambling laws, which would ultimately transform the city into America's playground for grown-ups. It was also the year an unprecedented engineering project began, that would turn the Colorado River from a wild killer stream to a wild reservoir that waters not only California vegetables but also sprawling Las Vegas suburbs. From 1905 to 1931, Las Vegas was still a tiny oasis in a big, dangerous desert. Its isolated people made their own swamp coolers, their own entertainment and sometimes their own whiskey. The author, Joan Burkhardt Whitely, enlisted older Las Vegans to help capture the memories of a Mojave Mayberry where neighbours took care of each other, not merely because no one else would, but because it was their hometown, and they cared.

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