LAS VEGAS ( KLAS ) – With Tropicana closed over I-15 this week to take the diverging diamond aside and restore so-called “normal” east-west journey Friday morning, how a couple of journey method again in time?
The unique Tropicana bridge over I-15 was devoted 59 years in the past tomorrow, with then native television celebrity Gus Giuffre MCing a ceremony that featured a marching band (sitting down) and younger women holding a banner declaring “now 4-and-a-half-hours from Los Angeles to Las Vegas”
However it wasn’t even entrance web page information within the subsequent day’s Las Vegas Solar newspaper. With the Vietnam struggle raging in Southeast Asia, the outstanding native story was a proposed growth of the Las Vegas Conference Heart.
The I-15 story was on web page 3 below a headline that mentioned “Rich Road Building Ending – for a while.” That aritcle, simply above an advert for Nurseryland on Charleston simply west of Decatur the place you could possibly get a quart of blooming geraniums for 29¢ and three baggage of steer manure for $1. Or you could possibly take a look at Minsky’s Burlesque – the “hip-iest show in town” on the Silver Slipper.
AH, 1966.
However so far as roads go, a Las Vegas Solar photograph from again then makes very clear that when the Tropicana/I-15 bridge opened within the mid-Sixties – there certain wasn’t a lot else round. That is the Tropicana golf course the place the MGM Grand now stands.
Buckle up, drive rigorously – and, please put down that cellphone!
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