LAS VEGAS TRAVEL GUIDE
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DOWNTOWN AND FREEMONT STREET
The city of Las Vegas and its now flourishing gambling industry grew up around Fremont street in the early 1900's. This is where the first casinos and their colorful neon signs were originally located. Although the area has undergone a vast transformation since then, some vestiges of its heritage can still be seen.
The Golden Gate hotel, for instance, has stood at the corner of Fremont and Main Street since 1906, and illuminated landmarks, such as Vegas Vic, continue to light up the night sky.
More recent attractions on this street, also known as Glitter Gulch, include the amazing light-and-sound shows of the Fremont Street Experience.
In the near future, a new enhancement program will bring new and bigger resorts, and new restaurants to the area. For the present, however, downtown still offers unpretentious dining, lodging, and entertainment at affordable prices.
AROUND FREMONT STREET
Originally known as Glitter Gulch, Fremont Street formed the heart of Las Vegas when the city was established in 1905. This is where the first casinos were founded, complete with stylish neon signs.
Today, the area has outgrown its frontier heritage, but still boasts the best collection of neon lighting - Vegas Vic, Sassy Sally, and many other adorning the Four Queens, Fitzgeralds, and Binion's casinos.
The main attractions here are the shows at the Fremont Street Experience. The street also hosts dozens of shops and restaurants.
MAIN STREET STATION
This classy hotel houses an enviable selection of antiques, artifacts, and collectibles.
GOLDEN GATE HOTEL
The city's oldest hotel, it is also know for introducing the shrimp cocktail to Las Vegas.
THE PLAZA
Formerly known as Jackie Gaughan's Plaza, this hotel was built in 1971 on the site of the original Union Pacific Railroad depot. It is also the only resort in town with a built-in Greyhound bus station, and a rooftop swimming pool that overlooks Fremont Street.
BINION'S
A Las Vegas landmark, this hotel exemplifies, and once led, the Glitter Gulch casinos of bygone days.
GOLDEN NUGGET
Downtown's largest and most elegant resort features a polished white marble facade.
FOUR QUEENS
Built in 1966, this hotel was named after the original owner's four daughters.
CALIFORNIA HOTEL
Despite its name, the hotel has a Hawaiian ambiance. Even the stuff wears aloha shirts.
FREMONT HOTEL
This is where the Midnight Idol and Vegas icon, Wayne Newton, made his singing deput.
FREMONT STREET EXPERIENCE
This open-air canopy generates a spectacular light-and-sound show nightly, and protects pedestrians from the harsh sun during the day.
FITZGERALDS
This hotel has a Luck of the Irish theme with shamrocks, leprechauns, and four-leaf clovers throughout the casino. Even the hotel staff wears emerald green uniforms.
NEONOPOLIS
This multi-level mall is home to a variety of shops, eateries, nightclubs, movie theaters, and the Lost Vegas Gambling Museum. Las Vegas Escort Service.
EL CORTEZ
A friendly hotel, the El Cortez faces Fremont Street and is one of the few casinos to retain architectural features from its original 1950's building.
LAS VEGAS NEON
The neon sign remains the dominant icon of Las Vegas, despite the fact that many of the new themed mega resorts and shopping centers here have opted for a more understated look.
Neon is a gas discovered by British chemist Sir William Ramsey in 1898. But it was a French inventor, Georges Claude, who, in 1910, found that when an electric current passed through a glass tube of neon, it emitted a powerful, shimmering light.
In the 1940's and 1950's, the craft of neon sign making was elevated to the status of an art in Vegas. The sidewalks near and around Neonopolis are home to an interesting collection of historic neon signs.
GOLDEN GATE HOTEL, 1 Fremont Street.
Located at the head of the Fremont Street Experience, Golden Gate, originally known as Hotel Nevada and later as Sal Sagev, was built in 1906 and is the city's oldest and smallest hotel. It also has the distinction of introducing Las Vegas to the shrimp cocktail, brought over from San Francisco by the hotel's owner in the 1950's.
While the hotel has been expanded and modernized over the years, the casino and public areas retain a feeling of 19th-century San Francisco.
Visitors can still get a great shrimp cocktail served in a tulip glass with a wedge of lemon. However, Golden Gate's 106 rooms have come a long way since the days of horse-drawn carriages, and are furnished with most modern amenities. The casino has about 500 slot and video poker machines, plus the usual table games.
Open: 24 hours.
Tel: 702 - 385 - 1906.
