Katy Perry received a Strip key and proclamation Wednesday at Resorts World. The Key to the City of Las Vegas is different from the Key to the Las Vegas Strip, awarded by the Clark County Commission (the Strip is actually in Clark County, do not forget it). Manilow was said to be too humble to make a big thing of his key award in front of his International Theater crowd. This was a hand-off performed behind the scenes. Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman awarded superstar Barry Manilow a Key to the City of Las Vegas and a proclamation making June 10 Barry Manilow Day, during Manilow’s show at Westgate Las Vegas on Friday night. As LVCVA CEO Steve Hill says, “We are thrilled to showcase the iconic images that have become synonymous with Las Vegas.” The archive is the largest single collection of post-World War II images in the world. In all, the collection encompasses more than 7 million images, 11,000 pieces of film and video, and 1,300-linear-feet of manuscripts and artifacts. Galleries titled Celebrities, Entertainment, Downtown, Then & Now, Sports and (naturally) Implosions are among the themed collections being planned.Ī roundtable of Las Vegas historians is also being enlisted to speak to the collection, and the history of the city, likely in November. The series is to continue over the coming months. Nearly every photo is in classic black-and-white. The first photo in the series is a a shot of Helldorado Days from May 15, 1947. “History comes alive thanks to the Las Vegas News Bureau.” “If it were not for the Las Vegas New Bureau, essential elements of the visual history of Las Vegas starting in the late 1940s would not have been recorded and, just as important, preserved,” says Bob Stoldal, retired television news executive and Las Vegas historian. The photos were selected from those that have been most requested for publication. Go to /who-we-are/75th-anniversary/ to flip through the city’s scrapbook. The top 75 photos dating to 1947 are now available in an online gallery, just now available to the public. This year the LVCVA Archive celebrates its 75th anniversary. Those are just a sampling of the Las Vegas News Bureau’s photos of Las Vegas’s past, collected and indexed by the LVCVA. And a photo of “Miss Atomic Bomb” from May 24, 1957, the most-published Las Vegas News Bureau photo ever. Louis Armstrong with Marlene Dietrich at the Riviera in February 1962.Īn atomic mushroom cloud in the distance, with the Las Vegas Club and the Pioneer Club in the foreground, June 1957. Muhammad Ali at the weigh-in for his bout against Joe Bugner on at Caesars Palace on Valentine’s Day, 1973.Įlvis on the Las Vegas Hilton marquee (with Kenny Rogers and The Sweet First Edition in the lounge) in January 1972. The Jackson 5 headlining the old MGM Grand, today’s Bally’s, in August 1974. They’ve socked away our city’s history snapshots.įrank “Lefty” Rosenthal shaking hands with Frank Sinatra on Rosenthal’s talk show at the Stardust in August 1977. (Pat Gray/Erik Kabik Photo Group)įorgive the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority for hoarding. Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman is shown presenting the Key to the City of Las Vegas and a proclamation that Jis "Barry Manilow Day" in Las Vegas, backstage at International Theater at Westgate Las Vegas.
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