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World Hotels - Historic Photos of Las Vegas
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List Price: $39.95
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Manufacturer: Turner Pub Co
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 979.3135
EAN: 9781596523807
ISBN: 1596523808
Label: Turner Pub Co
Manufacturer: Turner Pub Co
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 216
Publication Date: 2007-10-19
Publisher: Turner Pub Co
Studio: Turner Pub Co
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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!
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Summary: A couple of hundred large format B&W photos showing the development of Vegas from 1904-1969
Comment: Jeff Burbank is a journalist and writer about Las Vegas and teaches in the English Department of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Here he has selected about 200 photographs showing the rise of Las Vegas from a mere railroad stop in 1904 to the booming city of lights it had become by 1969. As in all these Historic Photos of series, these are all large format black and white photos. Burbank provides interesting and informative chapter introductions and captions for the photos.
The book shows us the photos in four periods. The first shows us the rise from railstop to boomtown 1904-1910 and is quite fascinating. The second is "Molding a Desert Community" before the Hoover Dam 1911-1929.
The third chapter takes us through the building of Hoover Dam during the Great Depression and how World War II requiring large numbers of soldiers to pass through Las Vegas by train and the vast amounts electricity provided by the Hoover Dam changed the town.
The last chapter takes us through the early years of the Las Vegas we would recognize, with the brilliant lights, casinos, and the elaborate shows with the show girls. The period covered in the book takes us from 1950-1969. Obviously, Las Vegas has changed utterly since then, but the book is historic photos after all.
Fascinating stuff.
Reviewed by Craig Matteson, Ann Arbor, MI
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