Las Vegas in 1962

Feeling nostalgic for the era before resort fees, 6:5 blackjack, $38 buffets, and illegal immigrants distributing pornography on the sidewalk? Here's 3 minutes of Las Vegas bliss: restored 16mm color footage from 1962. Of the casinos depicted in the film, I counted just 4 still open (Flamingo, Riviera, Golden Nugget, Horseshoe.)

Thanks for that reno! The neon back in the day, was much better than the giant video screens lighting the strip today. Giant TV's you can see at home. The neon set a mood for Las Vegas.

The transfer of the 16mm film is excellent. I appreciate that the cameraman did a great job.

I like to play "Count the Studebakers". There is a photo off to the left of the check-in desk in the Flamingo that has a picture of the old hotel with cars parked out front. One of the cars looks just like my Silver Hawk but it's the next model year. I will have that picture!!

Quote: reno

Of the casinos depicted in the film, I counted just 4 still open (Flamingo, Riviera, Golden Nugget, Horseshoe.)

The Fremont shows up, at least in the background of the shots of the Mint, and I think there is a brief shot of the Las Vegas Club.

I really enjoyed the footage.

It appears to have been taken by a conventioneer in town for an event.

Those were the days when everyone "Dressed" to go out at night.

Also, the names of the entertainers of that time on the marquees.

Quote: Doc

The Fremont shows up, at least in the background of the shots of the Mint, and I think there is a brief shot of the Las Vegas Club.

I missed those; sharp eye!

I enjoyed this footage, and I certainly romanticize the Vegas scene of the 1950s & 60s. But it was a racist era in American history, and in those days the party was only open to whites: "Even in the late 1950s, if Ethel Waters or Dorothy Dandridge so much as touched the swimming pool, the entertainer was whisked away, white patrons were evacuated and the pool drained and refilled."