Las Vegas Memories
Explore our collection of Las Vegas photos and videos, spanning from the 1990s to present day. We have some nice views of Las Vegas from high altitudes (the top of the Stratosphere, hotel rooftops, and even from out the window of an airplane). Our focus is on neon lights and the massive architecture of the Las Vegas Strip, which is like a 24/7 party where almost everyone is on vacation.
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Las Vegas has undergone significant transformations from the Rat Pack era to 2025. In the 1950s and 1960s, the city was famous for its glamorous casinos, iconic entertainers, and the Rat Pack's legendary performances. The 1970s and 1980s were covered in the movie "Casino". Taking photos in a casino would get you hauled into a back room and the film ripped out of your camera. Today people shoot mobile phone videos in casinos with no consequences.
The 1990s saw Las Vegas converting to corporate ownership and trying to become more of a "family friendly" destination with the MGM Grand Adventures theme park which opened in 1993, Circus Circus Adventuredome which opened as Grand Slam Canyon in 1993, and Gameworks in 1996. Hotel prices were low and buffets were famously inexpensive due to high gambling revenue. Declining gambling income brought hotel and buffet prices up.
Someone got the idea to start charging "resort fees" in 2005 and it spread to nearly every property. Instead of advertising $150 rooms, resorts could now advertise the same rooms for $80 and mention the $70 daily resort fee in small print somewhere. This gave people the illusion of paying less for the room. The resort fee covered what had already been offered previously as part of the room fees, such as WiFi and use of the exercise room. MGM Resorts began charging for parking in 2016, which was previously unheard of. All Las Vegas properties had offered free parking (except for Showcase Mall near the MGM Grand) until then.
Tourists were offered a break in the price increases in January 2020 when the Las Vegas Taxi Authority introduced fare zones from Harry Reid Airport (formerly known as McCarran). In 2025 it's a flat fee of $21 to south strip properties (Mandalay Bay, Luxor, MGM Grand, Excalibur); $25 to south-mid strip properties (Aria, Bellagio, NYNY, Planet Hollywood) and $29 to north-mid strip properties (The LINQ, Flamingo, Rio Suites, Venetian, Sahara, Stratosphere.) Before the fare zones existed, some taxi drivers would take you southbound out of the airport onto the 215 and 15 freeways to add mileage to the trip, instead of going north along the airport connector that runs parallel to Paradise Rd. This was referred to as "long hauling".
The Covid pandemic mostly shut down the Las Vegas strip in March 2020, which prompted a new "social distancing" layout of the casinos. Rows of 10 to 20 slot machines were removed and replaced with what you now see in most strip properties; instead of being right next to each other in long rows, machines are now set up in groups of about 4 or fewer in a circular pattern that lets people maintain some distance in between themselves.
While the pandemic is over and Las Vegas has returned to normal, they've retained this casino design. However, video poker has pretty much disappeared in 2025, although it was widespread in 2020. I'm unsure why video poker fell out of favor with the Las Vegas casinos. You'll now mostly find video roulette, video blackjack, video craps, and very complicated slot machines that offer a 5x5 grid (instead of the old fashioned three single rows) where you can place bets on the obvious 10 different possible combinations (each row across/horizontal, each column up & down/vertical), plus all kinds of weird crisscross and zig-zaggy patterns. Some of these slot machines also kind of merge into video game territory.
25 cent machines are also scarce and have mostly been replaced by $1 machines. "Penny slots" are misleading in that the minimum bet is usually $1 or more; while the minimum bet to be eligible for the jackpot is usually $3 or more. I recall being disappointed to burn through $20 in less than 5 minutes on a sl0t machine before 2020; now you can burn through $20 in about 30 seconds. The experience is often something like you bet $5, spin the reels, and when nothing happens you wonder how you missed all these possible winning patterns on the 5x5 grid. You do that three more times and then you're done. I did see someone win about $250 on one of these machines though.
Resorts World International in December 2024
Two versions of the Aladdin before it became Planet Hollywood.
Fontainebleau Las Vegas in December 2024
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