City of Las Vegas

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If you are looking to get information about the most popular city in the world “Las Vegas” then you are at the right place. Here we will provide a brief history and present minutiae about this magnificent city so you might like to explore it more. So, let’s begin the journey about Vegas.

Officially known as the City of Las Vegas, is the largest city in the state of Nevada and the twenty eighth most populated city in the United States of America. Prevalently, it is known as Las Vegas or Vegas only. The City of Las Vegas is renowned worldwide as a key resort city. Popularly Vegas is well-known for gambling, shopping, dining and the night life. Las Vegas presents itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World which is branded for its mega casinos and hotels and activities connected to it. The city is among the top three destinations in the US for business caucus. It is also leading in hospitality industry and has AAA Five Diamond hotels more than any other city in the entire planet.  Las Vegas is a popular cite for films, TVs and music videos. Vegas is also sometimes nicknamed Sin City.

Now let’s have a look at the brief history of the City of Las Vegas.

Las Vegas was founded in 1905. It was incorporated as a city in 1911. The year of 1928 saw the construction of Hoover Dam which brought many thousands of workers to the area. What is now celebrated as Boulder City was set up for the workers. The year of 1931 proved to be a crucial year in the Vegas’ history. It was this year when the state of Nevada legalized gambling. The downtown Las Vegas became the centre of leisure and amusement for the dam workers with casinos and speakeasies. The incursion of construction workers and their families for the construction of the dam helped in avoid the monetary catastrophe in the times of Great Depression. The business was rising and financial conditions were so good that Vegas passed Reno as the gambling capital of the world. At the same time, Los Angeles was also on the rise as a global center but because at that time gambling was not allowed in California, many people travelled to Vegas to enjoy the vacations and recreational activities.

In 1941, the lavish El Rancho Vegas resort was opened and later became the Las Vegas Strip. In 1946, Flamingo Hotel was established by Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel. With the opening of these two hotels and resorts, the city saw a construction boom and a tradition of one-upmanship was started as every new building whether a casino or a hotel, tried to outdo the other ones. This tradition is still present in the Vegas. In the 1950s, the Moulin Rouge started to function and it was the first racially integrated casino-hotel in the city. Nuclear weapons testing started in 1951 at the Nevada Test Site which is 65 miles from the Vegas City. The residents of the city and visitors were able to witness the mushroom clouds during those tests until 1963.  It was in 1963 when the Test Ban Treaty required the nuclear tests to be carried out underground. The symbolic “Welcome to Las Vegas” sign was crafted by Betty Willis in 1959, though sign was never located inside the city.

In the 1960s many corporations and business tycoons started to build and buy hotel and casino properties. One of the famous names of business power houses included Howard Hughes. During this period gambling was started to be called as “gaming” which helped in transitioning into legitimate business. 1995 was the year when Las Vegas saw the opening of Fremont Street Experience in the downtown area. This was a five block canopied area marking 12.5 million LED lights and 550,000 watts of sound from twilight to midnight during the shows held.  The year 2012 was nicknamed as “The Year of Downtown” because of projects which initiated in that year were worth of hundreds of millions of dollars. These included the Smith Center for the Performing Arts and DISCOVERY Children's Museum, Mob Museum, Neon Museum etc.

In the modern times, Las Vegas is the one of the most popular cities in the world. It is able to attract thousands of people every year who visit the City of Las Vegas for different purposes such as films, casinos and gambling, hotels and resorts and entertainment activities.

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