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March 14, 2010

Can You Help Us Identify The Location Where This Pictures Was Taken?

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 […]
March 14, 2010

The Last Of The Paradise Palms Newsletters From 1963

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 […]
March 12, 2010

Plan 8 – The Last Of The William Krisel Designed Models Of Paradise Palms

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 […]
March 11, 2010

The Downtown Issue From Las Vegas Weekly Magazine

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 […]
March 11, 2010

Brian Paco Alvarez Speaks His Mind About Culture In Las Vegas

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 […]
March 10, 2010

Paradise Palms Residents Enjoy Exclusive Privileges – at least they used to

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 […]
March 9, 2010

Three Articles Of Interest In KNPR’s Desert Companion

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 […]
March 9, 2010

Gushing Over Downtown Las Vegas

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 […]
March 8, 2010

Glen Heather Neighborhood Affected By Project Neon

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 […]
March 8, 2010

Short Sales Are About 65% Of The Inventory

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 […]