Neon and other colorful lights made this outdoor sign for the Flamingo Hotel & Casino stand out at night along Las Vegas Boulevard, better known as the Strip, a roadway lined with spectacular resort hotels and casinos just south of the city limits of Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. The Flamingo opened in 1946, a very early attraction in that notorious desert destination well-known for its gambling and good times. The Hilton Corp. owned the hotel when this historical photograph was taken in 1983. A decade later the original hotel was demolished but this unique sign of stylized pink feathers was saved.
Neon and other colorful lights made this outdoor sign for the Flamingo Hotel & Casino stand out at night along Las Vegas Boulevard, better known as the Strip, a roadway lined with spectacular resort hotels and casinos just south of the city limits of Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. The Flamingo opened in 1946, a very early attraction in that notorious desert destination well-known for its gambling and good times. The Hilton Corporation owned the hotel when this historical photograph was taken in 1983. A decade later the original hotel was demolished but this distinctive sign of stylized pink feathers was saved and continues to identify the resort property. The glowing lights of neon signs first appeared in Las Vegas in 1929. Plentiful electricity produced by the new nearby Hoover Dam turned that sleepy frontier town into the City of Neon Lights by the 1940s and helped make it the tourist attraction that continues to this day.
Size: 4800px × 3133px
Location: Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, USA
Photo credit: © Michele and Tom Grimm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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