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Years ago, I remember the first time we went to Las Vegas was a Friday night drive from the L.A. area after work when it would get dark around 6:00PM. I had left work a couple of hours early and it started getting dark as we were driving I-15 into Las Vegas. We kept seeing a bright glow a whole bunch of miles before we got there. Many miles later we realized it was caused by Las Vegas lights. This was before the Luxor, which now produces a vertical beam into the night sky so you know you're approaching Las Vegas.
DW and I were so excited by the flashing lights we stayed up until the wee hours of the morning hopping from casino to casino. When we finally crashed for the night, we woke up the next day and we were shocked by the view. Bright, boring, bland and pretty a dead kind of town with nothing but concrete to view. That line of customers shown in Ozz's pictures show more life than we saw that next morning. We were actually quite surprised at how slow and serene the day times were. But oh, when it got dark again, it was like ants flooding out of the ant hills and the party was on.
Nowadays, there is now Fremont street and the party is more 24/7 because the Casinos are better looking than with just the lights at night and activities are all day long. I do recommend a trip to Fremont street at night. Plus the Golden Nugget was where I had the best luck on our very first visit. It paid for several trips to Las Vegas. But now with all the stuff in the area and they had to pay for some of it, the luck is not so good anymore.
I hope Ozz posts some pictures of Fremont Street. Today is Halloween. All of Las Vegas should be pretty wild.
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