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Driving through the Las Vegas Strip in 1972
Posted on 8/9/25 at 10:09 am
Posted on 8/9/25 at 10:09 am
I found this video pretty interesting showing what Vegas looked like in 1972 - the old neon signs stand out in this video
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Posted on 8/9/25 at 10:12 am to FLTech
I assume that was the days when you could go out, get something to eat and have a decent time without breaking the bank.
Posted on 8/9/25 at 10:16 am to FLTech
16oz New York strip for $5 at the Holiday Inn... 
Posted on 8/9/25 at 10:37 am to OweO
At 1:15 on right:
Breakfast $1.?5
Lunch $1.75
Dinner $2.25
Breakfast $1.?5
Lunch $1.75
Dinner $2.25
Posted on 8/9/25 at 10:47 am to OweO
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I assume that was the days when you could go out, get something to eat and have a decent time without breaking the bank.
People eat out way more now than they did back in the day. So prices must not be too bad today.
This post was edited on 8/10/25 at 10:22 am
Posted on 8/9/25 at 10:48 am to FLTech
My man Howard Hughes is in hiding somewhere there.
Posted on 8/9/25 at 10:49 am to RedHawk
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So prices must not be too bad today.
$18 Miller lites and $28 Tequila Sodas. $89 for Palms buffet.
This post was edited on 8/9/25 at 10:51 am
Posted on 8/9/25 at 10:49 am to FLTech
I've stayed at the Riviera
Posted on 8/9/25 at 11:01 am to FLTech
Even back then nobody knew how to use a damn blinker! 
Posted on 8/9/25 at 11:03 am to FLTech
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The town will never be the same. After the Tangiers, the big corporations took it all over. Today it looks like Disneyland. And while the kids play cardboard pirates, Mommy and Daddy drop the house payments and Junior's college money on the poker slots. In the old days, dealers knew your name, what you drank, what you played. Today, it's like checking into an airport. And if you order room service, you're lucky if you get it by Thursday. Today, it's all gone. You get a whale show up with $4 million in a suitcase, and some 25-year-old hotel school kid is gonna want his Social Security Number
Posted on 8/9/25 at 11:46 am to FLTech
Grew up there in the 70s and 80s. That video sure brought back memories.
Posted on 8/9/25 at 12:03 pm to bayouteche
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Even back then nobody knew how to use a damn blinker!
Turn signal sounds better
Posted on 8/9/25 at 12:04 pm to FLTech
Some of those prices are wild. I noticed a steakhouse advertising a $3.99 meal. Wouldn't that be nice today
Posted on 8/9/25 at 12:15 pm to East Coast Band
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I've stayed at the Riviera
Same, they had a really good house band with full horn section playing funk. Drew Carey and a few comics used to hang out in the bar. Good times
Posted on 8/9/25 at 12:49 pm to OweO
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I assume that was the days when you could go out, get something to eat and have a decent time without breaking the bank.
without the crime
Posted on 8/9/25 at 12:59 pm to FLTech
I’m really appreciating the mid 70s lately. Modern enough to be noticeably different than the 60s yet still with that grit of old realism.
Posted on 8/9/25 at 1:05 pm to FLTech
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Driving through the Las Vegas Strip in 1972
What was I doing here? What was the meaning of this trip? Was I just roaming around in a drug frenzy of some kind? Or had I really come out here to Las Vegas to work on a story? Who are these people, these faces? Where do they come from? They look like caricatures of used car dealers from Dallas, and sweet Jesus, there were a hell of a lot of them at 4:30 on a Sunday morning, still humping the American dream, that vision of the big winner somehow emerging from the last minute pre-dawn chaos of a stale Vegas casino.
Posted on 8/9/25 at 1:06 pm to Bayou
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without the crime
Posted on 8/9/25 at 1:11 pm to FLTech
I wish there was a video like that of Panama City Beach back the 1970s
Posted on 8/9/25 at 1:22 pm to RedHawk
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People eat way more now than they did then. So prices must not be too bad today.
I was there last year for a week, been a number of times. Might not ever go back.
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