The Dunes Hotel Closed on January 26, 1993
The Dunes Hotel closed it doors on January 26, 1993. It sat where the now famous Bellagio resides on the corner of Las Vegas Blvd. and Flamingo Road. The Dunes was the tenth resort built on the Las Vegas Strip and opened on May 23, 1955. The resort included a 18-hole Championship golf course which ran from Tropicana Ave .to Flamingo Road, it was called the Dunes Miracle Mile.
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Monte Carlo Resort and Casino fire broke out on January 25, 2008
On January 25, 2008, at 10:57 AM, a fire broke out on the exterior of the top six floors of the Monte Carlo Resort and Casino. The fire was on the exterior of the building burning the foam facade. The ignition of the facade wall was attributed to welding on a catwalk on the roof. The hotel and casino were evacuated with no major injuries or deaths during the fire, which lasted a little more than an hour. The hotel remained closed for 21 days and an estimated loss of $100 million due to the fire and resulting closure.
Binion’s Gambling Hall and Hotel in downtown Las Vegas, was previous called Binion’s Horseshoe
On January 23, 2004 downtown Las Vegas’ iconic Horseshoe Hotel and Casino was sold to Harrah’s Entertainment. The casino is named for its founder, Benny Binion, whose family ran it from its founding in 1951 until 2004. Currently, the now rename casino, Binion’s Gambling Hall and Hotel, is owned and operated by TLC Casino Enterprises, Inc. but, the hotel rooms remain closed to this day.
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Jerry's Nugget
Jerry’s Nugget Casino open on January 15, 1964 and is a casino located in North Las Vegas, Nevada. It is privately owned and operated by the Stamis family, with 24,000 square feet of gaming space.
Jerry’s Nugget was founded in 1964 by Jerry Lodge and Jerry Stamis and was originally the site of the Town House Bar. In 1968, both Lodge and Stamis bought the Bonanza Club, located across the street from Jerry’s Nugget. The acquisition meant moving the casino to its new location and 10,000 square feet of added space.Today, Jerry’s Nugget expands over 95,000 square feet and features a race and sports book, keno lounge, table games area and slot floor.
In 1970, the casino printed a special deck of cards, and sold them in their gift shop for fifty cents. Almost forty years later, these decks fetch upwards of $600 per deck on the second-hand market.
Macintosh PowerBook 100 Unveiled in Las Vegas at the 1991 COMDEX Trade Show
On This Date, October 21, 1991, The Macintosh PowerBook 100 was unveiled at the COMDEX computer expo in Las Vegas, on at an affordable $2300. It was still powered by the fast 16MHz processor, 2-8MB of Memory, 9-inch monochrome backlit LCD display with a resolution of 640×400. The iPad today is thousands of times more powerful than this machine. The PowerBook 100 was manufactured and designed by Sony in collaboration with the Apple Industrial Design Group. It did not have a floppy disk drive but was popular for its compact design and a conveniently placed trackball pointing device (what we call a track-pad in our modern laptops). John Sculley, then CEO of Apple, who was famously brought on board by Apple founder Steve Jobs from Pepsi, personally oversaw the product development of the PowerBook 100.
Editors Note: This was the first laptop that I ever owned.
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On this date: July 3, 2011. Well…, that is how most of the posts start out. But, it has been 5 years since the LasVegas360.com’s original web site – (started in 1999) was converted to a blog format from a basic set of static web pages.
The original web site was just a series of 360 degree panoramic photos of the Las Vegas Strip, Downtown and Red Rock Canyon. There were thousands of photos taken with a small digital camera and stitched together to build all the panoramics. The original photo shoot was a big expedition that took place back in 1999. On foot, the journey started at the Welcome to Las Vegas sign, (still surrounded by desert) all the way to the Stratosphere. You can see long gone sites like the Onmimax, Imperial Palace, and Wet-n-Wild. Now this collection of photos needed a home, so they where dumped onto the newly created LasVegas360.com website. With hundreds of static pages to maintain it became difficult to maintain and they sat there for years not doing too much. Along came a piece of software called WordPress, a long weekend, hours of configuration and uploading the LasVegas360 blog sprung to life.
Nowadays, the site basically composed of posts made up of historical events, photos, and things to do around the Las Vegas area. If you are a history buff ,take a look at the History section. There is the Daily Neon, which is a photo collection of today’s and yesterday’s past neon signs. It is hard to believe in just 5 years how may of the old Vegas neon signs are gone. Off the Beaten Path is a section is dedicated to things out of the Las Vegas Area: Hiking, ghost towns and things of interest. Regardless, if you have never been to Las Vegas or you are a local, hopefully there is something you like on this site.
Over the last 5 years, there has been 480 posts, half a million visitors, and thousands of photographs added. LasVegas360.com, is just a small hobby and does not get the love that it deserves. I hope you find it to your liking and “Thank You” to everyone who has visited.
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