Historic Photos of Las Vegas
Las Vegas is a Spanish word meaning The Meadows or The Grasslands was established as a railroad town in 1905 and was officially incorporated in 1911. It is the largest city in the United States founded in the 20th century and goes by the two different nicknames of ?The Entertainment Capital of the World? and ?Sin City?. Las Vegas continues to evolve: the city legalized gambling in 1936, Bugsy Siegel's Flamingo Hotel opened in 1946 starting the now infamous Las Vegas Strip, and Steve Wynn...
Search in google:
Las Vegas is the most populous city in the State of Nevada and a hub for entertainment. Attracting millions of visitors each year, the Entertainment Capital of the World is the largest U.S. city founded in the 20th century. The valley in which it lies was named Las Vegas (The Meadows) by Spaniards in the Antonio Armijo party, who used the water in the area while heading north and west along the Spanish Trail. After the opening of Bugsy Siegel's Flamingo Hotel in 1946, the city and many of its residents gained international stardom. With nearly 200 photographs of this dynamic city like no other city, this coffee-table book like no other book is sure to be a hit with residents, visitors, and history buffs alike! Mike The Las Vegas Adventurer.com Historic Photos of Las Vegas from Turner Publishing is a beautiful hardcover book with a very full 200 pages- it s chock full of pictures and captions and very few of them are ones I've seen before. I highly recommend this book, and Turner Publishing has an amazing selection of other major U.S. cities as well.
\ Mike The Las Vegas Adventurer.comHistoric Photos of Las Vegas from Turner Publishing is a beautiful hardcover book with a very full 200 pages- it s chock full of pictures and captions and very few of them are ones I've seen before. I highly recommend this book, and Turner Publishing has an amazing selection of other major U.S. cities as well.\ \ \ \ \ Nevada MagazineWatch Las Vegas grow from its meager beginnings as a scattering of tents called Ragtown, to its mob-run days as Glitter Gultch, into the modern mega-resort juggernaut that is the largest American city to be developed entirely within the 20th century. Would Sin City by any other name conjure images of one of the world's premier travel destinations? Maybe not, but it's interesting to know how it got there.\ \ \ Southwest Blend MagazineTo appreciate the evolution of Las Vegas, Nevada, get yourself a copy of Historic Photos of Las Vegas written by Jeff Burbank and published by Turner Publishing. It is amazing how a once inhospitable, rugged desert region, has turned into the glitzy, glamorous, fun capital of the world. The history is fascinating and the photos reproduced in this book showcase the toughness, creativity, perseverance and tenacity of the early founders of this great city.\ \
![The Complete National Geographic: Every Issue Since 1888 [With DVD]](/application/data/covers/63/52/9781426296352.jpg "The Complete National Geographic: Every Issue Since 1888 [With DVD]")