360 Vegas

FINAL NEON LOUNGE EPISODE FOR 360 VEGAS FEED Subscribe to the Neon Lounge: Apple Podcasts/RSS Spotify Amazon Music/Audible iHeartRadio Support us on Patreon   This week in Vegas history: June 19, 1990, Excalibur opened. NEWS:   Barry Diller/People Inc. place offer to buy MGM Resorts Strip resort net income down 81%   Medley:   Primm and Herbst families announce deal to save Primm. Largest In-N-Out...

This week in Vegas history: June 4, 2020, Nevada casinos reopened after the COVID-19 shutdown.   After more than two months closed, casinos across Las Vegas began reopening, including properties on the Strip, downtown, and around the valley. The D and Golden Gate reopened at 12:01 a.m., while other properties followed later that day.  NEWS:   Fertitta Entertainment is buying Caesars Entertainment...

News: What To Expect When You’re Expecting A New Podcast From Us Subscribe to the Neon Lounge Podcast Here “Unofficial” Listener Meetup in June: Sunday 6/21 - Meetup at Whiskey Licker Up - 4 PM followed by a visit to Neon Museum for those interested  Monday 6/22 - Meetup at Bottle Blond or Brew Dog - 6 PM Tuesday 6/23 - Meetup at Chandelier Bar - 6 PM   All of Primm Valley closing July 4 New Eagle...

Keren, Tony, and Josh reconvene to announce the release of Mark's second book, Vegas: Icons and Legends, and tell the story of its completion and publication.  Also included is a little announcement about the future... To purchase Vegas: Icons and Legends, please visit Amazon.com.   Keren, Tony, and Josh make an appearance on the Cheftimony podcast .   Subscribe to the Neon Lounge podcast right he...

  Since the creation of modern day Las Vegas, there have always been people lamenting the good ole days, whatever that means to that individual at the time. Determining what is considered “good” is about as subjective as subjective can be.  Most people today will point to the time before the strip was primarily owned by 2 companies, MGM Resorts and Caesars Entertainment.  While the benefits of con...

  I don’t know what I think about Oscar Goodman. I want to say I respect what he does and if I needed help, I hope my advocate is half the lawyer he is. At the same time what he’s done and who he’s defended troubles me, makes me uncomfortable, ethically even if I’m not sure it should. When Oscar speaks about his clients he does so very deliberately as if he’s making sure he doesn’t say something t...

   Siegfried & Roy, Masters of the Impossible, and in their time, as famously associated with Las Vegas as the Fountains of Bellagio are.  This act of illusion and tigers captivated audiences and really complimented the family friendly entertainment spectaculars coining phrases like “Only in Vegas”.  Let’s not forget, these are grownups going to see a magic show. But part of the interest was t...

  It’s fitting that he came up in lounges and has returned to them in the twilight of his career. That may sound like a slight, but it’s not meant to be. It’s a compliment. His lounge show is the only of its kind on the strip and that is because a lounge show couldn’t exist today with anyone other than Wayne Newton. When we lose him, we will lose that form of entertainment or at the very least the...

As told by Tony and Rum.  

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It was said that people would rebuild their buildings to accommodate the biggest sign they could afford.  That’s how important signage was, or how important it is.  Las Vegas was the only town in the world whose skyline was made up of signs.  So big, they were the first thing you’d see from a mile away.  YESCO, Heath, Federal, Ad Art and SSI are just some of the names responsible for bringing thos...

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News:  Updates on the Celebration of Life Saturday, September 13th First Congregational UCC Conneaut 211 Buffalo St, Conneaut OH 44030 2pm - 5pm Important: No alcohol allowed in the church. Dress code is whatever you’re comfortable in. Saturday & Sunday - October 18th & 19th Las Vegas - Still working on the details. A special announcement will be made in the podcast feed. Saturday the 18th...

Josh drinks excessively and attempts to tell us the story of one of the pioneering names in Vegas history.  

Random Vegas In the more than 14 years of 360 Vegas, there were 537 episodes published, as well as 39 Vintage Vegas Segments, 186 YouTube videos, 43 POV Segments, 78 Reviews, 15 Vegas Vacation meetups, and a freaking book. That’s a hell of a legacy. TwitPic of the week #TwitpicForMark on Twitter In honor of Mark, folks have been posting beautiful shots of Vegas using the hashtag TwitPic for Mark o...

Random Vegas 1992 is when Circus Circus opened their bungee jump experience with a 201 foot tower. Jumpers paid $100 to drop 171 feet almost into a swimming pool. The attraction closed in 2005 TwitPic of the week I don’t know how they did it but I love it. This week’s winner by @SCVegas is a photo of the W tower at Mandalay Bay while it was still known as Delano, the Luxor Pyramid, Excalibur Castl...

Random Vegas The Circus Circus sky shuttle was the first automated transit system in Las Vegas built 23 years before the monorail. It was decommissioned mainly due to high maintenance costs and because it did not go to the airport (LasVegasLocally) TwitPic of the week She is known by some as the dirty bird but thanks to photoshop she looks like a gem in the desert, shared by @flamingovegas . The p...

Random Vegas At one time, Golden Nugget made more money than all the casinos on Fremont St combined (Vital Vegas) TwitPic of the week It’s an elegant photo taken during 360 Vegas Vacation 15 shared by @360vegasjaydubs and answering the question, what’s in a pyramid. In this case, the artium level of the property is prominently featured showcasing Play Playground, Diablos and all the attractions on...

Random Vegas July 2nd is a popular date to open a casino, just before the 4th of July weekend crowd comes in. In Vegas history, 5 properties have opened on July 2nd.  They are the Stardust which opened in 1958, International, best known as the Hilton but currently known as Westgate, opened in 1969, Plaza opened in 1971, Holiday Casino, known today as Harrah’s, opened in 1972 and Sundance, known to...

Random Vegas The Sarno Block was actually a large brick formed of two half-ovals which could be stacked to make a modern latticework screen. It made the resort’s night façade glow evenly, smoothing over the chaos of dark and lit rooms behind it. (The strip) TwitPic of the week Sometimes the stars align, or in this case, the sun, the moon and the High Roller. A beautiful picture shared by @lasvegas...

Random Vegas  June 3rd, 1976, “Tokes”, tip money given to dealers by players, is considered taxable income that must be reported on tax returns, says a US court of appeals  TwitPic of the week  Here is another part of Vegas I never knew, the neon signs of west Fremont St pre-Vegas Vicky and Las Vegas Club renovation. The angle captures the Las Vegas Club, Jackpot arcade, the Mint, the horseshoe an...

Random Vegas  60,000 pounds of shrimp are consumed in Vegas every day.  That’s higher than the rest of the United States combined.  TwitPic of the week  The caption read “Nothing is the same” and I tried to challenge that but @Vegas_Visual is right. In this week’s winner, taking in 1991, a view from the front of the Mirage looking south and everything in this picture is different now. No more Mira...

Random Vegas The last scheduled train to Las Vegas was May 12th, 1997 (Vegas_Visual) TwitPic of the week Whoever took this picture, shared by @historyNevada knew exactly what they were doing. A photograph of the iconic Sands tower under construction with the Sands marquee captured in the foreground. The two icons side by side, the only thing better would have been if it was in color. Black and whi...

What constitutes a Vegas resort?  We have to go to the original, universally agreed to be the first resort on the strip, the El Rancho.  Small casinos, nightclubs and motels existed on highway 91 before the El Rancho opened,  but it was the combination of a hotel/motel and a casino on property that made it a Vegas resort.  It’s with this template that we have created the definitive order for Las V...

Random Vegas In 1985, Wet n’ Wild opened a 27 acre water park on the strip just south of Sahara. It closed in 2004 TwitPic of the week It’s the same sign that won last week with just a different perspective, shared by @Summacorp . The infamous Stardust marquee in all her glory, 188 feet tall, the tallest in the world for a time. It somehow sums up Vegas with the image. The only sign more recogniza...