A photographic journey through the history of one of America's most distinctive towns, Las Vegas. Part of the highly successful Then & Now series, each spread shows an image of Las Vegas as it was, and how it is currently.[...]
Las Vegas's reputation as "sin city" has attracted millions of tourists in the seven decades since gaming was legalized in Nevada, and continues to reign as the entertainment showplace of the nation. Pairing historical photographs of the town with specially commissioned views of the same scenes toda[...]
In 1957, the sixty-foot, tulip-shaped fountain that graced the front of the Tropicana Hotel caught the attention of anyone on the southern end of the Strip. Today, the fountain is long gone, the victim of a 1970s remodel, but the Tropicana still stands. In 1966, when Caesars Palace celebrated its gr[...]