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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsDrive the Las Vegas Strip circa 1975 for the sake of nostalgia
Do you prefer the look of the Strip today or the way it was back then?
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Drive the Las Vegas Strip circa 1975 for the sake of nostalgia (Original Post)
True Dough
Feb 2022
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True Dough
(26,126 posts)1. Here's a similar vid
Auggie
(32,998 posts)2. Cool. They could just put "Sammy" on the marquee. Everyone knew who that was.
True Dough
(26,126 posts)3. Sammy Sosa didn't even play back in the 1970s, Auggie!
Auggie
(32,998 posts)4. Heh. If he did, Sosa would need a slightly reconfigured marquee:
Sammy*
True Dough
(26,126 posts)7. Ha ha! Agreed!
You hit that one out of the park!
Auggie
(32,998 posts)8. I aim to please. Thank you.
IA8IT
(6,380 posts)5. Last time there a dozen years ago. Wild amount of new construction then can't imagine it now.
Hell of a show for a person that's spent most of his life living on gravel roads. Need to drive most of an hour from my home to see a building taller than a grain elevator.
Auggie
(32,998 posts)6. Family visited Las Vegas in 1967 ...
the 1975 video looks a lot like I remembered it eight years earlier.
