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https://i.imgur.com/a09Qa6o.jpg





I'm guessing early 50s - about 70 in the pic - not a single one is fat
today, a pic with 70 in a room, at least half would be fat:




only $3 mill - it's a steal

Before the hormone rich McDonald's meat took hold of america?

wish we still had The Mint

The Mint was a hoot.

When I was a kid (maybe 14 or 15) we took a family road trip out west and made a stop in Las Vegas. My parents took us to the show at The Mint. Patti Page! I was impressed.

Looks mor betta!

Was Fremont Street more popular than the strip at the time? I haven't been to Vegas in a decade, but if my memory serves me right, all but the Flamingo are in Fremont.

guessing you guys will enjoy this site: https://vintagelasvegas.com/

in the first pic the big cowboy on the pioneer hotel would say " howdy pardner" every few minutes.

back then we didnt have giant soft drinks. a coke came in a bottle and was 6 1/2 oz.

very little fast food. dairy queen and mcdonalds came along.

no such thing as high fructose corn syrup in anything just real sugar. and no such thing as a free refill on anything even coffee.

it was hard to get fat. parents worked with their hands and outside mostly. and kids were always outside playing all day. tv went on in the evening if you were rich enough to afford a set and you only got a couple channels.

the dunes casino was basically the end of the strip when i first showed up around 1969.
with the hacienda out past but few ever went there. the bellagio sits where the old dunes was. they had a golf course as well. the dunes which had most of the high stakes action was one of the first 3 casinos on the strip. in the mid 1950's

I remember going to the Frontier that was always had some strike.

5 Blackjacks at the $5 table got you a free room.

Tropicana used to have a gold course where MGM is now.

dunes, trop and sahara had nice courses. sahara was best but since i had a slice and the dunes favored that, i gambled mostly on that course.

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inside the Golden Nugget late 1940s






floating craps game - 1954 - Sands










Arizona Club - 1908







band entertaining on Fremont St. 1956





roulette players 1934-1950





early 1950s





women in the Nevada Club 1957





1959 craps game at Sands





Boulder club postcard 1930s - 1950s - I didn't realize keno was so old





1930s craps game





baccarat - late 50s to early 60s




1930s craps game

i will happily read any post made by folks who are sharing personal stories of vegas from decades ago.
please consider this as a form of encouragement.

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kind of interesting, to me anyway
in the postcard above from the Boulder Club it advertises the game Pan

I had never before even heard of Pan

Wiki had some stuff on it


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangui...an%20southwest.

From a thread I started years ago.

The last time I saw pan played in Vegas was downtown at The Plaza when they had a poker room 15 or 20 years ago. Sometimes there would be "private" bigger poker games in a smaller alcove off the floor, and while I waited for them I'd play Pan. And Super Pan. And Super Pan 9. There were a bunch of varieties, none of which I remember very well.

But I do remember the people who played them. They were old ladies who looked like they went to the beauty parlor on their way to the casino to get a wash and a set. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, it's because you are young and have been spared the experience of gambling with, and being taken off by, old ladies with blue-white hair.

There was a specific ritual about how the cards (or was it the chips) were moved around the table. It involved stabbing them with the eraser end of a pencil and moving them that way so that the fingers never touched them. I never quite understood how it worked, but some pencil-work was admired and encouraged, but others pencil-play was taboo and would get you a rap on the knuckles -- with a pencil of course. I may be imagining this, but I think they may have even had special pencils with erasers on both ends, just for playing pan.

The game has to exist somewhere in Vegas, maybe in a local's place like Sam's, or in someone's playroom or in the rec room of an assisted-living facility. It's like those old stud games that you think are extinct, but keep resurfacing. As long as there are old ladies, there has got to be a Pan game somewhere. Sadly, maybe the pandemic (?!) has finally ended the last one.

they played a lot in the old casinos in califonia when only lowball and draw were allowed.
as you said it was mostly old ladies playing that were always grumpy. and a few good pro men players that would try to make a living playing in the better games.

I think Sahara was one of the last with Pan.

the old hideaway cardroom in shoreline, wash would spread pan every day until they closed a year ago.

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in the 90s, in A.C., in Taj Mahal, Trump's joint, they offered the game Red Dog
what a loser that game was
there would be about 40 BJ and mini Bac tables mostly full - and the Red Dog table was always empty - not a single taker - that I ever saw - and I spent a lot of time in that joint



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yablon

Pan isn’t was still somewhat around in the past 20 years or so. The Plaza had a table I believe up until probably the 2000’s. Jackie Gaughan owner of the Plaza, El Cortez and some other Fremont low end joints used to play with a bunch of old ladies a few times a week there.

Edit: Doh, just saw the posts above mentioning Pan at the Plaza.