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True Dough

(17,301 posts) Mon Feb 7, 2022, 09:10 AM Feb 2022

Drive 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 OP

Here's a similar vid True Dough Feb 2022 #1

Cool. They could just put "Sammy" on the marquee. Everyone knew who that was. Auggie Feb 2022 #2

Sammy Sosa didn't even play back in the 1970s, Auggie! True Dough Feb 2022 #3

Heh. If he did, Sosa would need a slightly reconfigured marquee: Auggie Feb 2022 #4

Ha ha! Agreed! True Dough Feb 2022 #7

I aim to please. Thank you. Auggie Feb 2022 #8

Last time there a dozen years ago. Wild amount of new construction then can't imagine it now. IA8IT Feb 2022 #5

Family visited Las Vegas in 1967 ... Auggie Feb 2022 #6

True Dough

(17,301 posts)

1. Here's a similar vid

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Mon Feb 7, 2022, 09:11 AM

Feb 2022

Auggie

(31,156 posts)

2. Cool. They could just put "Sammy" on the marquee. Everyone knew who that was.

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Mon Feb 7, 2022, 10:07 AM

Feb 2022

True Dough

(17,301 posts)

3. Sammy Sosa didn't even play back in the 1970s, Auggie!

Reply to Auggie (Reply #2)

Mon Feb 7, 2022, 10:33 AM

Feb 2022

Auggie

(31,156 posts)

4. Heh. If he did, Sosa would need a slightly reconfigured marquee:

Reply to True Dough (Reply #3)

Mon Feb 7, 2022, 10:38 AM

Feb 2022

Sammy*

True Dough

(17,301 posts)

7. Ha ha! Agreed!

Reply to Auggie (Reply #4)

Mon Feb 7, 2022, 12:48 PM

Feb 2022

You hit that one out of the park!

Auggie

(31,156 posts)

8. I aim to please. Thank you.

Reply to True Dough (Reply #7)

Mon Feb 7, 2022, 07:55 PM

Feb 2022

IA8IT

(5,554 posts)

5. Last time there a dozen years ago. Wild amount of new construction then can't imagine it now.

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Mon Feb 7, 2022, 10:49 AM

Feb 2022

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

(31,156 posts)

6. Family visited Las Vegas in 1967 ...

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Mon Feb 7, 2022, 11:10 AM

Feb 2022

the 1975 video looks a lot like I remembered it eight years earlier.

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