December 6th, 2007 · 3 Comments
Fremont Experience, Downtown, Las Vegas
From the Fremont Street Experience site:
The world-famous, one-of-a-kind entertainment venue is home to Viva Vision, the biggest big screen on the planet. More than 12 million lights in the Viva Vision canopy and 550,000 watts of concert quality sound pumped to speakers throughout the venue produce an incredible array of eye-popping imagery and heart pounding music. The giant LED screen towers 90-feet above a pedestrian mall lined with unique retail shopping kiosks and two permanent performance stages. Ten legendary casinos line Fremont Street Experience with more than 60 restaurants and thousands of loose slots. Free concerts, special events, and roaming street performers entertain the nearly 17 million visitors who come to experience the vintage Vegas attraction each year.
The shows start up every hour on the hour from 6:00 p.m. til midnight and each is one is different. The show pictured was about an alien invasion.
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Sassy Sally & Vegas Vic, Downtown, Las Vegas
They’re actually married. From Wikipedia:
While the construction of the Fremont Street Experience was going on, Vegas Vic and Sassy Sally were lowered to the ground and in Las Vegas tradition they were married by a local minister. Sassy Sally crowns Glitter Gulch. Nowadays, she is better know as Vegas Vicky.
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December 1st, 2007 · 1 Comment
Downtown Las Vegas Casinos
While in Las Vegas we stayed at the Four Queens downtown at the Fremont Experience. Our hotel was at an intersection where each corner had a hotel. On the other corners were Binion’s, Golden Nugget, and Fremont.
The last time I was in Las Vegas was about 9 years ago when I went on a trip with Kelly that included Phoenix, camping at the Grand Canyon, several days on the beach in San Diego and finally Las Vegas. While we were in Las Vegas we stayed at the Golden Nugget, so I was sort of familiar with the area. Although, it was so long ago, I didn’t remember too much.
Our hotel room at the Four Queens was right above the roof of the Fremont Experience, which we thought would make it bright and loud, but we weren’t really in our room for any of the show times anyway. We did all the typical stuff: stayed up late, drank free drinks, ate a lot, ate late night, lost some money, won some money. One interesting thing is that the downtown area is where a lot of people from Hawaii stay. In the California Hotel & Casino they have at least two Hawaiian local grinds restaurants and their slot machines have “Shaka” and “Dakine” in the names. This site says that 70% of the people who stay at the California are from Hawaii.
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