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| Shopping extravaganzas in the city of Las Vegas |
| 01.31.05 (3:30 am) [edit] |
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Las Vegas has entered the elite league of cities with world-class shopping malls. One no longer looks down on people who shop at Las Vegas. Let us check some of the prominent malls there. Mandalay Place, located in a 300 foot long skybridge, is a retail centre connecting Mandalay Bay and Luxor casino resorts. Located at the south-end of the strip, it has an array of trendy boutiques and eateries. They have been mostly set up by emigrants. This 100,000-square-feet of shopping area has the distinction of being the first mall in the world to have Nike’s first golf store. Fornarina from Italy, Sauvage, 55 Degrees Wine + Design, Cafe Giorgio, Chocolate Swan, The Burger Joint, The Art of Shaving, Max & Co., Le Paradis Fine Jewelry are some of the other upscale stores.
Desert Passage at Aladdin spans an area of 1.2 miles with around 140 niche stores and restaurants. It is has a decidedly North African ambience. Shop & Play, Shop & Dine and Shop & Beauty are the three packages available here. They are priced at $ 15, $ 35, and $ 60 respectively. Boulevard Mall slightly off from the strip, houses more 140 stores and a huge food court. It is considered to be Nevada's largest shopping center. It is located on Maryland Parkway.
Galleria at Sunset is the newest mall on the block in the city of Las Vegas. Situated in two levels, it has 110 stores and a food court with a capacity to seat 600. Useful resource: Las Vegas
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| Las Vegas events through the month of February 2005 |
| 01.31.05 (3:28 am) [edit] |
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Be it sport, music, theatre or solo shows, Las Vegas has them all. February 2005 is no different as some best known performers in different areas are all set to land in Las Vegas. Orleans Arena will witness none other than Harlem Globetrotters on February 16-17. These basketball wizards who have tricks galore up their sleeves are definitely going to regale audiences with their wizardry on court. In addition, to their dexterity with the ball, their comic antics will keep the audience in splits.
The Brit pop superstar Elton John will set alight The Colosseum at Caesars Palace from 8th February onwards until 26th February. The legend who began his career in late 60s and achieved fame with such endearing albums as “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”, “Caribou” etc. is sure to send the baby boomers into a nostalgic tizzy, while the younger generation of fans are bound to be swept of their feet by the sheer genius and talent of this vintage musician. Seating capacity in the Colosseum is 4,100.
Watch the Bard of Avon’s (Shakespeare) timeless classic ‘Romeo and Juliet’ UNLV's Judy Bayley Theater between February 25th and 27th. This classic which inspired a slew of love stories in literature as well as theatre will be depicted through graceful ballet movements. For more info on other riveting shows or programs, checkout Las Vegas websites.
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| A History of Hotels in Las Vegas |
| 01.04.05 (1:23 am) [edit] |
The post-war years saw the development of the Las Vegas Strip, a prime zone for Las Vegas Hotels. The El Rancho Vegas Hotel-Casino, built in 1941, was hugely successful, and much of the credit for the development of the Las Vegas Strip goes to its existence.
The Flamingo, the Last Frontier, Thunderbird and Club Bingo were some of the celebrated Las Vegas hotels that came up in the forties.
Among the major Las Vegas hotels to be built in the fifties the Sands, the Desert Inn, the Riviera Hotel, the Royal Nevada, Dunes, Hacienda, Tropicana and Stardust hotels, along with the Moulin Rouge Hotel-Casino and the Downtown Fremont Hotel-Casino at other locations in Las Vegas, deserve mention. The 1960s and 70s saw the opening of many new large hotels including the MGM Grand and Caesars Palace.
The 1970s saw a frenzied spate of addition to existing hotel complexes, making them bigger and better than ever before. In 1972, Circus Circus Enterprises Inc added a hotel, the Circus Circus Hotel-Casino, to their circus-tent-shaped casino.
The 1980s and 90s have been witness to the establishment of a multitude of "family resorts". Mirage Hotel-Casino, Treasure Island, The Excalibur, and the MGM Grand Hotel and Theme Park are examples of how resorts have metamorphosed into mega-resorts in the 1980s and 1990s. By 1995, Las Vegas boasted 86,000 hotel and motel rooms, and as many as 13 of the 20 largest resort hotels in the world. These decades have seen resorts become bigger and better, and if there is one identifiable trend in these decades, it is definitely theme-based hotels and resorts.
Useful resource: Las Vegas
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| The Economics of Las Vegas |
| 01.04.05 (1:21 am) [edit] |
Casinos have been more than the ruling passion and the mainstay of entertainment in Las Vegas hotels. It is hard to think of a single aspect of life in Las Vegas that hasn’t been touched by the effect that the legal casinos in all the major Las Vegas hotels have had on its socio-economic conditions.
Legalized gambling was partly responsible for holding off the Depression for Americans in Las Vegas. The legalization of gambling generated huge revenues. In addition, there was the Hoover Dam Project, a $165 million government project that generated employment for thousands of people, employing 5,128 people at its peak! The Union Pacific Railroad development also contributed to the fact that to people in Las Vegas, the Great Depression was not really such a time of economic hardship as it was for Americans everywhere else. Useful resource: Las Vegas
During World War II, one area to the north-east of Las Vegas was designated for the training of B-29 gunners. Today the three million acres of the former Las Vegas Aerial Gunnery School is the site of the Nellis Air Force Base and the Nevada Test Site. Some of the country’s ace fighter pilots train at the Nellis Air Force Base.
After the Second World War ended, many military men returned to Las Vegas and settled there. Las Vegas is still home to military personnel and their dependants, ex-military men and civilian employees in the military. Thus, different people came to populate Las Vegas, even before Las Vegas hotels became big business. Many people live and work in Vegas today, but the foundation of the spectacular, glamorous city of Las Vegas was laid by economic stability generated by an unlikely intersection of casinos, dam construction and military training, all happening in the same place around the same time.
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| Las Vegas-Gambling for a Cause |
| 01.04.05 (1:20 am) [edit] |
Las Vegas hotels are a flourishing business in their own right. Indeed, Las Vegas is a city synonymous with its hotel-casinos. It was the first state to legalize gambling. Today, Las Vegas hotels attract huge crowds of people, lured by the roulette wheel or the cards; some out to make their fortunes, others simply trying their luck at the many Las Vegas hotels and casinos dotting the city.
In the early 20th century, in a monumental decision, a law was passed making gambling illegal in the state of Nevada. But Las Vegas was not about to stop gambling. The ban on gambling, in practice, lasted for less than a few weeks! A culture of underground casinos came into being and gambling flourished- not legal, but accepted nevertheless. Indeed, with Las Vegas’ long association with gambling, it would have been quite unthinkable that its people would give up their favorite sport.
Oddly enough, it was a rancher from Winnemucca in Northern Nevada, non-gambler Phil Tobin, who put up a legalized gambling bill, which was approved in 1931. Tobin had never been to Las Vegas, but it had occurred to this venerable gentleman (who had, incidentally, never visited Las Vegas) that the city’s fondness for games of chance could be harnessed for a good cause. Tobin said that the income generated from taxes on casinos and legalized gambling would be very useful in supporting the cause of public schools, which were in need of funds. As it happens, Tobin’s decision worked out surprisingly well, for gamblers, Las Vegas hotels, public schools and the Nevada government. Today, gambling tax revenue contributes to more than 43% of the state general fund, and interestingly, above 34% of the state general fund goes towards public education, as Tobin had originally intended!
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