Post #23597 by floratina on Wed, Feb 19, 2003 5:29 PM

I have researched the strip pretty thoroughly in the past and there isn't enough in a way of extant original 50's structures to support a tour, IMO. There are some little motels that aren't famous or anything, but they're old. Maybe the Trop has a motel wing left. There is a cute nine-story tower at Stardust that is modern-esque. The first high-rise on the strip was the Riviera. If you look real hard you can pick out that structure from all the expansions added over the years. There are some towers from the late '60's that are not very distinguished. The only cool ones left are at Caesars; they just finished re-skinning those in the last year or so and removed the stone screens from all the towers. They no longer have that famous look. They did leave the stone screen up along the long drive toward the porte cochere that runs alongside the fountains, I am glad to say. Well, unless they ripped that out in the last few months and I didn't hear about it.

The whole tour would consist of the guide pointing out the window and telling us what used to be there. Downtown is intact, though. It would be a hoot to go over to YESCO's sign graveyard.

[ Edited by: floratina on 2003-02-19 17:33 ]