Classic Las Vegas

Friends Of Classic Las Vegas To Meet At The Morelli House

July 11th, 2008 Categories: Classic Las Vegas, Historic Preservation, Mid Century Modern

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One of my favorite organizations is “Friends Of Classic Las Vegas”. They’re all about the people who made Las Vegas. They sponsor panel discussions every month, but there’s also the business meeting side of it. Their monthly business meeting will be this Sunday July 13, 2008 2 pm  at the Morelli House. Usually they meet in members homes, but this month in preparation for their 1 year anniversary The Morelli House will be the venue.

 

There will be a tour of the property, which is in my opinion the crown jewel of historic preservation in Las Vegas.  

To find out more about the meeting or about the Morelli House, visit the friends of Classic Las Vegas Blog

From my point of view, if you want to learn about classic desert living modernism, there’s no better place to get started than at the Morelli House. I’ve covered it many times on VVV for a Variety of reasons and there’s plenty of pictures if you’ll click here to see all the VeryVintageVegas posts where I’ve mentioned it or explicitly talked about it.

If you’d like to check out FOCLV or just see the Morelli House, we hope you’ll come out on Sunday.

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Classic Las Vegas Entertainers at Fundraiser On Sunday

April 18th, 2008 Categories: Classic Las Vegas, Las Vegas History

Lynn Zook from Classic Las Vegas tells us there’s a star-studded tribute and fundraiser this Sunday for legendary lounge performer Norman Kaye.

This Sunday, April 20th, a bevy of Classic Las Vegas Entertainers including Nelson Sardelli, Pete Barbutti and Charlie Callas will join with Clint Holmes, the Las Vegas Tenors and Jimmy Hopper to perform at a fundraiser for Las Vegas Lounge Icon, Norman Kaye.

Kaye, along with his sister Mary and friend Frankie Ross, were the Mary Kaye Trio.  They, along with the Treniers, revolutionized the lounge scene  on the Las Vegas Strip in the post-WWII War era.

Norman Kaye suffered a stroke a few years back and is still dealing with its debilitating effects. 

There’s more history and photos at the Classic Las Vegas History Blog

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Las Vegas History Event and First Friday In The Arts District

April 1st, 2008 Categories: Classic Las Vegas, First Friday, Las Vegas History

There’s 2 events this week that you should know about.

Our friends at Classic Las Vegas hold a monthly roundtable discussion and presentation about Las Vegas History. The next event will be this Thursday, April 3, at the Springs Preserve.

This Month’s topic is ST. THOMAS the small town that got covered over when Lake Mead started to fill up after the building of Hoover Dam.

 

Lynn Zook will be moderating “The Past Resurfaces” at 7pm. Admission is 12.00.

If you’ve never visited the Springs Preserve, it’s spectacular, and you could go a couple of hours early and do some exploring before the event starts.

First Friday In The Arts District Of Downtown Las Vegas

It’s time again for the biggest street party and art event in Las Vegas. All the galleries, antiques stores, bars, restaurants and venues will be packed from 6 to 10pm on Friday April 4.

Visit the First Friday Website for a complete list of venues, performers, and events.

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Classic Ads From Las Vegas’s Past - From The Classic Las Vegas Blog

February 13th, 2008 Categories: Classic Las Vegas, Las Vegas History

One of the other organizations that we belong to is Classic Las Vegas. They also have a blog, where Lynn Zook has posted some terrific advertisements from Las Vegas Publications. These ads seem to be from the 40’s and 50’s.

On of them is for a new housing tract from 1948. But you’ll have to go there to see them.

I’m not even making the one I borrowed (with full attribution) into a thumbnail. I think you’ll also be interested in most of what’s at either the Classic Las Vegas Website, OR the Classic Las Vegas Blog

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Classic Las Vegas Monthly Meeting This Sunday At Nevada State Museum

January 11th, 2008 Categories: Classic Las Vegas, Las Vegas History

We forgot to mention that Classic Las Vegas, will be holding it’s monthly meeting this Sunday 1/13/2008 2 PM. The meeting will be in the Auditorium of the Nevada State Museum, which is in Lorenzi Park 700 Twin Lakes Drive. (Washington Ave. west of Rancho).

Refreshments will be served. I’ll go anywhere for a cookie!

Classic Las Vegas is into preserving the memories of early Las Vegas. They’re very much into meeting anyone who has stories to tell about life in Las Vegas pre 1970.

We’re working with Lynn Zook, the founder to do a series of roundtable discussions regarding housing in Las Vegas in the early days. It’s one of the topics for the meeting on Sunday.

Lynn blogs regularly on history topics, and recently published an article on the things, buildings, homes that we lost in the last year.

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