Very Vintage Vegas

1951 Parcel Map Of Las Vegas - Most Of What I Call Vintage Las Vegas Isn’t There

February 26th, 2008 Categories: Historic Preservation, Las Vegas History, Las Vegas Real Estate News

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Update: if you looked at the middle picture

It’s a funny thing about being the “newest” big city in America. Vintage in Washington DC or NYC or Philly, dates back to revolution. In St. Louis or Columbus, Denver or Seattle, Or San Francisco, it’s 1900!

But Vintage Vegas? 1950!

Buried deep in the catacombs of Mary’s house, we found a huge wall sized plot map of Las Vegas from 1951. My house isn’t there. Some of McNeil shows up along Ashby, but Glen Heather, and Paradise Palms, and Rancho Bel Air, and Rancho Nevada aren’t there at all, yet.

Scotch 80’s and Huntridge and Charleston Square have proudly raised their heads already. Alta Vista and Southridge show up. But there’s no Marycrest, or Crestview or Morning View Heights.

Our resident VVV historian Brian Paco Alvarez has offered to help us get the 6 foot by 8 foot map remounted at least if not fully restored. We’ll certainly keep you posted as it progresses.

Like most photos on Very Vintage Vegas, these are clickable thumbnails, and I’m betting you’ll get as much of a kick out of studying them as I did.

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1. Vince C said at February 26th, 2008 at 9:21 pm

   Wow. Very cool!!

2. Mary-Margaret said at March 11th, 2008 at 2:55 pm

   before it gets remounted - it would be very helpful to have it professionally and archivally scanned.
   if you can’t find anyone here in town - my sister in law does archival scanning for the huntington Museum in L.A.

3. Madelyn said at August 25th, 2008 at 10:42 pm

   My dad worked at the Nehi Bottling Company back in the early 50s and we would like to know if you know where we can find an address and/or a street map of Vegas from the 40s and 50s. Thanks.

4. Ted Kozloff said at October 16th, 2008 at 12:37 am

   I think the date you have for this map is incorrect, and that the map shows plot divisions as of a date earlier than 1950. My family lived at 525 Park Paseo (near 5th and Charleston) starting about 1948, and the plot for our home is clearly much too big. We moved to 1044 South 6th (at 6th and Park Paseo) around 1951 (which had been built for at least 2 years when we moved in), so I know that the parcel at that corner is also much too big. Around 1950, there were at least 4 homes and a vacant lot on the west side of South 6th between Park Paseo and Charleston. The homes were owned by (i) Ballard and Bee Barron (who sold 1044 to my father), (ii) Marion Hicks, (iii) someone whose name I can’t remember and (iv) Kell Housells (corner of 6th and Charleston), and the map shows only two parcels on the west side of South 6th between Park Paseo and Charleston.

5. Ted Kozloff said at October 16th, 2008 at 12:41 am

   Madelyn-

   I have a very dim recollection that the Nehi Bottling Company was located on the south side of 5th somewhere between Charleston and Fremont, across the street from a school. I think I recall walking past it on 5th as a very young child in the early 1950’s.

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