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The original monorail was only a joint venture between MGM Grand and Bally’s. It opened in June of 1995. In the early 2000 it expanded to become the Las Vegas Monorail (vintagelasvegas.com)
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It isn’t anything historic except that it was the first incarnation of the Caesars Palace sign, shared by @summacorp. You can tell because it only uses 3 of the 4 pillars on the sign. Future versions added more sign boards and eventually grew to encompass 6 pillars of signage. It was never the tallest or the grandest, it’s just a great POV of a magnificent sign that captured my imagination.
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There is a scene in the 1979 movie Melvin & Howard that shows someone driving down the strip, past Flamingo and headed south. If you look close, when they get to the MGM marquee, Universal Pictures, the production company behind the film, covered up their rival MGM’s name from...
Published 11/17/24
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This week in 1974 the Dean Martin Celebrity Roast specials began airing on NBC. All (except the 1st) were taped in the Ziegfred Room at the original MGM Grand. It went on hiatus from 80-83 after the hotel fire. The last was taped in late 1984 (@_GrandpaD)
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Published 11/03/24
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For a time, Las Vegas had the three tallest neon signs in the world as the Dunes sign rose to 180 feet, the Frontier’s sign rose to 184 and Stardust’s most iconic sign rose to 188 feet to be the tallest sign in the world for the decade to follow (Spectacular – A History of Las Vegas...
Published 10/27/24