http://veryvintagevegas.com las vegas real estate, mid century modern, downtown las vegas homes & urban las vegas living in the Historic Neighborhoods of Las Vegas, retro homes and neighborhoods of las vegas Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:01:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 Palms were Krisel designs. Irwin Molasky’s Paradise Development Company developed the entire master planned community, ... http://veryvintagevegas.com/2010/03/12/plan-8-the-last-of-the-william-krisel-designed-models-of-paradise-palms/ 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 articles ask and mostly answer: Who are some artists I should know? I concur! And there’s a ... http://veryvintagevegas.com/2010/03/11/the-downtown-issue-from-las-vegas-weekly-magazine/ 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 in Las Vegas –  Enculturate Las Vegas. Besides, VeryVintageVegas, these are the other two local ... http://veryvintagevegas.com/2010/03/11/brian-paco-alvarez-speaks-his-mind-about-culture-in-las-vegas/ Our Paradise Palms 1963 series is coming to an end soon. There’s only one more floor plan brochure, an after this, the August 1963 edition of the Paradise Palms Desert News, there’s only September left to show you. I was hoping someone else would surface that had other editions stashed ... http://veryvintagevegas.com/2010/03/10/8283/ If you’re not a supporter of KNPR – you ought to be. One of the benefits, besides great radio programming is their companion magazine –aptly named– “Desert Companion”. There’s FOUR articles this month that I thought would be of interest to you as devoted readers of VeryVintageVegas: Westleigh Neighborhood The first is about ... http://veryvintagevegas.com/2010/03/09/three-articles-of-interest-in-knprs-desert-companion/ Downtown gets some great PR on Fox 5 news. Las Vegas Weekly Community Editor Sarah Feldberg has written a local’s primer to hanging out in Downtown Las Vegas. It’s really nice to see someone else all excited and enthused about what to do Downtown. Check out the video for a preview The print article is ... http://veryvintagevegas.com/2010/03/09/gushing-over-downtown-las-vegas/ One of the great little neighborhoods in Vintage Vegas is Glen Heather. It’s located in the Southeast corner of Rancho Drive and Oakey Avenue, just west of the I-15 freeway. Glen Heather can be accessed via side streets off of both Rancho and Oakey. It’s a charming neighborhood with a mixture ... http://veryvintagevegas.com/2010/03/08/glen-heather-neighborhood-affected-by-project-neon/ Short Sales account for about 65% of the inventory in Las Vegas. Slightly over half of all the business that I do now involves the short sale. The Short Sale occurs when the house can’t be sold for as much as is owed on it. Generally, the seller comes away ... http://veryvintagevegas.com/2010/03/08/short-sales-are-about-65-of-the-inventory/ Thanks to reader and client Suzanne for pointing this out.                               http://veryvintagevegas.com/2010/03/06/what-were-they-thinking/ Untold Stories – Las Vegas High School During the formative years of the city of Las Vegas, there was only one high school, Las Vegas High.  The school was built because of the determination of one woman, Maude Frazier.  Located on 8th Street, many townspeople believed it was too far out ... http://veryvintagevegas.com/2010/03/03/untold-stories-the-las-vegas-history-series-to-discuss-las-vegas-high-school/  Plan 7 is on of my favorites. Plan 7B is so easily recognizable. There’s only 4 of them that were built. All are south of Desert Inn. The Caddy Shack is the most easy to spot with it’s lime green and white color scheme. It’s the home of Mary-Margaret and ... http://veryvintagevegas.com/2010/03/03/plan-7-the-bill-krisel-designs-of-paradise-palms-in-las-vegas/ This is really a “fun features found in foreclosures” post. This is a very restorable mid century modern home in Vintage Las Vegas. It’s a “desert modern” and one of the few in McNeil. Mostly McNeil is a neighborhood of “Ranch Modern”.   McNeil was and is a middle class custom home neighborhood between Charleston and Oakey ... http://veryvintagevegas.com/2010/03/02/restorable-mid-mod-in-the-mcneil-neighborhood-vintage-las-vegas/ Where was I before the last week got lost? It’s time for another volume – July 1963 – of the Paradise Palms Newsletters. This one contains a special treat, which we’ll get to on page 3. There’s also a lot of great hair, 2 tone shoes to match the dogs, ... http://veryvintagevegas.com/2010/03/01/the-home-of-walter-zick-featured-in-paradise-palms-newletter-from-july-1963/ LAS VEGAS – February 25, 2010 – Fremont Street Experience welcomes race fans during NASCAR weekend with the 7th annual RaceJam beginning Monday, February 22 through Sunday, February 28. The week-long party will feature live performances from headliner Foghat, in addition to Jimmie Ray’s Johnny Cash Tribute and The Jay ... http://veryvintagevegas.com/2010/02/25/fog-hat-at-fremont-street-experience-this-weekend/ WHAT:           The Smith Center for the Performing Arts gets one step closer to opening its doors as it celebrates the “topping out” of Reynolds Hall, reaching its highest point of 170 feet. The ceremony will begin with a live performance down City Parkway by Clark High School Marching Band and ... http://veryvintagevegas.com/2010/02/23/topping-out-ceremony-for-smith-center-for-the-perfoming-arts/