If you’ve never taken a drive or a stroll thru Boulder City, it’s something you really ought to do. It’s got lots of very well preserved pre war houses, and mid century modern hotels and […]
Anyone recognize this building? It would be a very cool Mid Century Modern home, but maybe it an office building? I don’t have any idea. The address is 1391. It’s one of the mystery […]
“Established in 1911, the Mesquite Club is the oldest non-profit women’s club in Nevada. The club’s formal debut took place just six years after the emergence of early Las Vegas on building lots put up […]
I said “But, wait– there’s moreâ€, and here it is. It’s the hand drawn rendering of Paradise Palms from 1963. It was also handed out at the sales office, which I now know had a Desert Inn Address, […]
Susanne and Gary, who will be residents of Vintage Vegas next month, guessed right on our first mystery photo. They were the only ones who ventured a guess. (I was right, myself, as well.) It’s on […]
Now that we’ve (almost) wrapped it up on Paradise Palms, I’d promised you a new series. I think John will recognize this. It’s the only house that I recognize in the new batch of pictures that I’ve […]
Alas, the last of the 1963 Paradise Palms Desert-News newsletters. I sure was hoping more of them would surface. No luck! Today we find babies, children, a Jackie K hairdo, and a very fabulous dinette […]
This is the last of the series showing the original 1963 sales brochures of the William Krisel designed homes of Paradise Palms. I’m just intelligently guessing that about 300 of the 1044 homes in Paradise […]
The other day we told you about a PR piece from Fox 5 news featuring Sarah Feldberg of Las Vegas Weekly. Turns out….once the magazine and the online addition appeared…. that it’s a whole “Downtown Edition”. 8 feature […]
Brian Paco Alvarez was interviewed this week at our favorite Las Vegas history blog – Classic Las Vegas. Paco’s one of my closest friends, and he’s taken up the mantle of blogging all things cultural […]