360 Vegas

Jan 26 2025 500 ep. 55 mins 453

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Las Vegas News, Reviews and Vintage Vegas segments that look at the people, resorts and events in history that make Las Vegas the greatest city in the world.

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E-518: Random Sign Museum

Jan 26 2025 66 mins

Random Vegas Before he designed Bellagio, Wynn had fully developed, different plans for the land formerly home to the Dunes.    Plans were to build a boutique hotel with intimate spaces, 2 hotel towers, one with 230 suites and two 7-story towers housing 461 rooms each  He even planned to leave room for two future towers to be built  Wynn believe if he pulled t

E-517: Blue Canister

Jan 19 2025 65 mins

Random Vegas Despite using the motto “Est. 1952”, Atomic Liquors didn’t open until April 17th, 1954 (@summacorp) TwitPic of the week It’s one of the last super pylons in operation in Vegas and one of the best uses of neon ever. The Rio marquee is a gem that should be celebrated by all. Thankfully new ownership restored it and incorporated LED into the sign instead of repla

E-516: Experimental Holes

Jan 12 2025 69 mins

Random Vegas While down compared to the record-shattering levels tied to last year's inaugural F1 race, monthly ADR this year saw the 2nd highest record for the month of November. (@MeltzVegas) TwitPic of the week It’s an iconic look at Caesars Palace, with the Sarno blocks lit up in teal shared by @LasVegasLocally. It’s at least 1989 because the Mirage is open. This aesthet

E-515: Hymen

Dec 29 2024 62 mins

Random Vegas Although argon gas was used as often as neon, the lighting method assumed the name “neon” to refer to the light produced by either gas. (Spectacular – A History of Las Vegas Neon) TwitPic of the week It’s the heart of the strip that simultaneously has the best view in all of Vegas available to guests of the north facing strip at Cosmopolitan, shared by @Veg

E-514: Dunes Pool

Dec 22 2024 75 mins

Random Vegas Downtown Las Vegas has 6 of the world’s largest. (Vegasexperience.com) World’s largest slot machine in Slotzillla (also the busiest and most successful urban zipline in the world) World’s largest keno board at 100 feet long outside of the D, World’s largest pint glass at Hennessey’s Tavern at 85 feet tall World’s largest working fire hydrant at 15 f

E-7 Mail Bag

Dec 14 2024 85 mins

E-513: #FUF1H8R

Dec 08 2024 61 mins

Random Vegas Las Vegas is the number 1 wedding destination in the US and the 2nd in the world behind Istanbul. TwitPic of the week It’s a time whose lamentation has been well documented on this show. The evolution of Fremont St into the Fremont St Experience, shown here, in development by @Summacorp. Say what you will about the results, progress is sexy. Here we see the roads

E-512: Just the Tip

Nov 24 2024 81 mins

Random Vegas It cost the Harris/Walz campaign $900,000 to advertise on the sphere for a week (@_GrandPaD) TwitPic of the week Black and white photography is simply beautiful and inspires thought. This week’s winner by @Vegas_Visual shows off the Dunes in all her glory including the turret marquee, the Diamond of the Dunes hotel tower and the Dome of the Sea restaurant in stunnin

E-511: Marquee Mark

Nov 17 2024 59 mins

Random Vegas There is a scene in the 1979 movie Melvin & Howard that shows someone driving down the strip, past Flamingo and headed south. If you look close, when they get to the MGM marquee, Universal Pictures, the production company behind the film, covered up their rival MGM’s name from their unremarkable marquee. (@summacorp) TwitPic of the week She isn’t the newest or

E-510: Circus Circus Maximus

Nov 10 2024 47 mins

Random Vegas The original monorail was only a joint venture between MGM Grand and Bally’s. It opened in June of 1995. In the early 2000 it expanded to become the Las Vegas Monorail (vintagelasvegas.com) TwitPic of the week It isn’t anything historic except that it was the first incarnation of the Caesars Palace sign, shared by @summacorp. You can tell because it only uses 3