1970s Las Vegas, Daytime Drive, HD from 35mm

[@martinwilliams1085]

It almost makes me cry sometimes. How bad I want to go back to these days.

[@javiermori1710]

Wow born in vegas 71 and have lived here my whole life. My dad was bartender at Caesars 40 years. The Discus Bar. This is incredible video. Thanks

[@LAFan]

That’s when Las Vegas was cool! Love this.

[@lorenheard2561]

What a different world! Love the old cars! And Frank Sinatra was around there still singing his pipes out!

[@nwtraveler5266]

Just seeing Frank Sinatra and Bobby Vinson on the marquees is so nostalgic. A better time for sure.

[@bonwatcher]

I remember the Strip being like this when I was a kid. Funny seeing all the gas stations, cheesy motels and souvenir shops that used to be on the Strip vs how it is today with megaresort after megaresort.

[@toniesmothmusic]

My first trip to Vegas was in 1973! glamourous and romantic. Not any longer; I remember you had to dress up to go to good casinos, Shows, and restaurants, today to commercial.

[@tambert3897]

Back when the Mafia ran things it was classier I assume. Now it's just a bunch of tourist traps, expensive food and people wearing t shirts, sandals and shorts everywhere.

[@sonidoacuario845]

@@tambert3897 what’s wrong with that ??it’s hot af there. It’s a vacation destination. Peope are there to enjoy themselves and have fun. Ain’t no one gonna care to dress formal

[@LivingLifeOutWest]

Thanks Tonie for your memories.

[@majestyk3337]

@@tambert3897 "...and people wearing t shirts, sandals and shorts everywhere." - This has to be the goofiest post I have ever read.

[@tambert3897]

@@majestyk3337 🤪

[@koblerville923]

We never vacationed in Las Vegas but seeing the cars, restaurants, and gas stations brings back the memories.

[@freerepublicusa2064]

I was born in 1984 in Las Vegas and I still live here. My family has been here since 1960. We are now over 80 family members strong. (My parents had 9 children). We all still live in Vegas. We are still in the construction industry. I’ve built buildings on nearly every road in town

[@Thunder_6278]

What a nice world, the cars! Station wagons, Impalas, LTD's, Coupe de villes, Monterey's, Bonnevilles, Torinos, Cougars, Nova's, GM Fishbowl buses, and yes, VW's.

[@flipfloppingwithMike]

Excellent video...thank you for this. Being born here in '64, it brings back a LOT of memories...and it's sad to see how much Las Vegas has been degraded over the decades. What a shame.

[@mousesthemouse6165]

Looks more colorful and not takes over by lights, but I too will be hit with nostalgia with current Vegas when I get older

[@1990758]

Everything changes

[@eddierags720]

My goodness the cars and the signs

[@mikeylikey6176]

Back when most lodgings on the strip are motels, and no one's walking around with those big tube drinks and acting like fools//

[@flipfloppingwithMike]

AMEN. And since you first posted this, it's gotten markedly worse. Too bad the "fellas" weren't still running things. They never would have allowed what is going on today.

[@davehue9517]

Nice views of old Vegas.... wish it was still like it was

[@1990758]

I don't think so it looked like there's more motels and hotels. And not big casinos.

[@MiloDC]

Wow, Henry She(a)d playing at the Aladdin! An old family friend. My sister, my mother, and I visited him and his family at their home so many times. Such wonderful memories.

[@knife-wieldingspidergod5059]

Noticed Henry was billboarded way at the bottom? Below $5000 Bingo and Vagabonds.

[@MiloDC]

@@knife-wieldingspidergod5059 Biggest draws in Vegas have always been on the stationary signs, not the rotators, since text on rotators is more likely to be missed by drivers. Rotators just catch the eye, which then goes to the stationary sign where the real draws are advertised. You're welcome for the lesson, though!

[@junbug1029]

At .39 seconds, Vegas drivers are still driving like this.

[@gingerriviera3654]

Everytime I visit- I imagine where these old hotels were on the strip and in downtown. The big resorts are impressive but even in 2000-2010 visitors respected the city a lot more. Now there is garbage in the Caesars fountains...I was saddened to see this. The areas in front of Flamingo smell of urine, it's been so degraded. A wonderfully classy place that has been made gawdy.

[@1990758]

So true lots of gas station back then

[@Patricia-vm9ys]

First time in Las Vegas in 1975. Little strip motels on the strip.

[@mrcommonsense9074]

Wow at least cab driver haven’t changed 😂

[@lonl123]

When the Mob ran this place, Vegas was like Paradise for the average guy...could come and eat and stay at a hotel for a week and it didn't cost half of your yearly salary to do so. I live and work here now and I avoid the strip like the plague.....crime and traffic is horrendous now...I really miss the old Vegas.

[@1990758]

At best the mob was controlling three maybe four hotels at any given time. At no time did they control eighty percent of the hotels on the ship.

[@1990758]

They ran different hotels at different times.

[@CastellonZamora]

2:54 the color of this film is incredible 🤩

[@Alaprine]

Incredibly vivid compared to most '70s street footage; makes you feel like you're actually there driving the car, although it could use some contrast boosting and touching up. That would make it even more immersive. Someone should definitely work on enhancing this, it has great potential :)

[@trapmiller5111]

So crazy how many of those establishments still exist till this day

[@joycegonzalez4704]

No one walking around with a Cellphone on their faces...

[@MrRMT1986]

Built em a lot smaller back then

[@Poopmummy]

I just loved seeing good old Sambos restaurants! Simple times. Thanks for the memories. ❤

[@1990758]

Look at all that empty space next to caesar's. Future home of the mirage in treasure island.

[@carasmussen27]

@@1990758 yep. The MGM burned in the early 80'? They moved it to where it is now. I think the new Aladdin took its spot. But then was sold and is Planet Hollywood. This quite a few years before I was 21.

[@1990758]

@@carasmussen27 Kool

[@selenaphillips6971]

​@@carasmussen27Bally's, now Horseshoe, took over the original MGM location after the fire.

[@joboshobos]

The only thing I can describe this is a “young Las Vegas” looks very interesting compared to nowadays, where it seems more of a mature city

[@WORLDWIDESOCAL9]

even though I was born in 1991 and I remember first time my mom and aunt took me and my cousins to Vegas in 1998 @1:13 its wild how when I was a kid the stardust and frontier was around by the time I was 21 back in 2012 both were gone and the cosmo barley opened up

[@jbb8382]

Way cool. Thanks for sharing!

[@ELMENDORFX]

I miss those days when I had so many gas stations to choose from on the strip!

[@xrilander]

The rotating Shell sign, I remember those as a child.

[@rafaeltorre1643]

Vegas off strip still has a gas station on every single corner at every intersection. Lol. I’ve never seen that before except in Vegas when I lived there 10 years ago.

[@1990758]

You still do

[@countalucard4226]

Starting at 1:50 right after CP the driver went past except for a few gas station it was basically unused land. Now forget it.

[@1990758]

Exactly those were a better times but there was a lot of open line.

[@knife-wieldingspidergod5059]

When you use film, you are future proofing.

[@thrillbilly2]

Doesn't even look like Las Vegas - looks like some typical strip mall area. So used to the Vegas of huge mega resorts and skyscrapers now

[@1990758]

Exactly I think there is more motels than hotels.

[@GamedogLounge]

1:39 Nicky waiting for his 50k marker coming in Stardust lol

[@Skazellino]

1:51 Evel's starting point was near that Shell.

[@IceMusicIceMusic]

Fantastic Upload!! Thank U :)

[@electricianron_New_Jersey]

0:35 people drove like assholes then too.

[@jamiepalmer5691]

The Stardust still stood. That sign is missed

[@oldiesgeek454]

That VW Bus should've been pulled over for cutting you off! 👮‍♂️

[@generationless6942]

And for hiding the 68' Cougar.

[@truthseeker2891]

When the breakfast was 1.99

[@1990758]

Exactly and some people still think it should be the same price.

[@carasmussen27]

I am wondering the price of gas? I don't there are any gas stations on the Strip.

[@1990758]

35 cent a gallon

[@oldiesgeek454]

​@@1990758Remember when regular gas hit 50 cents a gallon in 1974? That was a big deal, and all of a sudden Datsun and Toyotas gained in popularity. 😊

[@soleimaniintel9293]

Hi mafia 4 developers !

[@knife-wieldingspidergod5059]

Filmed either early or late 1975. I noticed the people with jackets.

[@Alaprine]

Nice companion to this night drive video, also from 1975 here; kzbin.info/www/bejne/ranLpGmbnrx7ZpY. You can see most of the same places. Very few differences, if any at all. I wonder if it was filmed by the same person on the same day.

[@beidlern]

Thank you

[@debderby9110]

We were somewhere outside Barstow...

[@someguy8966]

On the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.

[@oldiesgeek454]

@@someguy8966 When the Bun Boy restaurant ruled the desert, and Stuckey's was the place to be seen. 🏜️

[@1990758]

That is are stopping spot for breakfast every time we go to Vegas from los angeles that denny's

[@bikerguy5829]

When going to Vegas was a bargin

[@troyw1843]

Really cool footage!! Thanks for sharing

[@juliemullen365]

That wasn’t ted bundys beatle was it 😮

[@OU812-j7v]

Remember when! Old Vegas!

[@marvaz5178]

❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@vegasjay9731]

0:10 Gass Peak still looks exactly the same.

[@imran15cassim]

The Days when Tony Spilotro rocked Las Vegas.

[@Bandit7x7]

Mafia IV 👌

[@thespikecanada3236]

Stardust at 1:41

[@martinwhalley3286]

Wow, Sinatra at Caesar's? He almost exclusively did the Desert Inn, had to sit with his back to the wall, just in case...ya know... Somebody tried to whack him, he'd see 'em coming.

[@ACoustaDC]

For the al gore rhythm.

[@davidingram8734]

1975

[@JamesDavidWalley]

Probably. At least before 1976, as the Aladdin tower hadn't been constructed yet, and after mid-1973, which is when the original MGM Grand opened.

[@Davidort3ga]

The mob times That was the real vegas today is kid stuff

[@1990758]

The mob and reality didn't control half of the casinos on the strip.

[@ReynaldoAbasr]

dIAMONDS ARE FOREVER

[@jetknight5051]

Those years had a lot of gas stations. .and cheap hotels and motels. .. Not even consider a strip yet? . . Now in 2019 Not one gas station and cheap hotels and motels on the Strip But you will find a wal greens and cvs on the Strip. .especially traffic. ..and a bunch of women selling themselves and pimps and trouble ones in the late evening's THE STRIP IS NICER BUT IT DOES COME WITH PROBLEMS. ..BUT MOST OF THE TIME IT'S GREAT. .

[@lorenheard2561]

The guys from Chicago still ran a tight ship!

[@nickmacias00]

Back before people would try to take pictures with you then charge you for it😂

[@paulwilson8085]

Lots of gas stations but probably no gas! Oil embargo time! thank god for Ronald Reagan

[@sonidoacuario845]

I don’t know why you’d need gas stations on the strip , majority of visitors use public transit to get around . Also prostitution is illegal in the city of Las Vegas . So idk beta girls are out selling themselves. Just came bakc from vegas a few ago. Everything was clean and had an amazing time .

[@1990758]

There's a arco gas station across from the luxor. There's a shell gas station across from mandalay bay.

[@vince1638]

I'm guessing 1973-74. Gas 52 cents a gallon, adjust for inflation and gas is way cheaper now!

[@russianfunkerroma]

Ford Granada at 3:42 so late 1974 as earliest, 1975 model Ford on the right at 1:26 , 1975 Plymouth at 1:36. Not trying to pick on your comment, i always like to find out year of the video by cars.

[@vince1638]

@@russianfunkerroma No worries mate but people just don't realize how cheap gas is right now thanks To TRUMP!!

[@LAFan]

@@vince1638 This comment didn’t age well. Trump is a fascist and Nixon had just resigned when this was filmed. Something Trump needs to do!

[@vince1638]

@@LAFan ur an idiot.

[@Dontfearthereaper001]

@@LAFan democrats are fascist you dimwit. They will continue to destroy the country and make it harder to make a living for everyone. Blame the far left for insane taxes and difficulties in starting small businesses. Big govt is the death to america and the constitution.

[@martinwhalley3286]

OMG I forgot how naked Caesar's looked before the Omnimax theatre and walking teams from sidewalk to casino entrance. One from the corner of LVBL SO and Flamingo Rd. The other from near the damnit Seigfried and Roy (wa) got chewed on. It wasn't there yet. The volcano 🌋 one. Treasure island filled most of the rest of the open space to Sahara. After they tore down the Castaways, directly across froms the Sands (looks like stack of chips) where I was a porter...after Gallagher's shows, yup! (He toked the whole crew during his 2wk stint a black chip each (hunid). Castaways didn't charge a fee to cash paychecks, as a matter of fuct, they gave us a 'book of discount's hehe. To boot. Sure suckers.

[@1990758]

I think it was built in 1966

[@oldiesgeek454]

​@@1990758That sounds right. I know Circus Circus opened in '68.😊

[@vitocorleone9215]

Damm this place was beautiful, imagine this place / country without racism.

[@bobcuster8930]

What a goofy post....

[@koreyy47]

It’s almost as if this video had literally nothing to do with racism. Is that all people think about these days? Get off the internet for a while you’ll see that the real world really isn’t how it’s perceived on the internet

[@FlopstinReaves33]

Whatever you say Vito!

[@AaronStark1993]

Why do you people insist on making everything about race? It's gotten ridiculous.

[@FlopstinReaves33]

@@AaronStark1993 that's what liberals do. They want to pretend they support the movement.

[@VintageVaughnVehiclces]

I love all the old cars, this was just before Jimmy Carter and the astounding inflation that electing a Democrat cost looks like we're going through that again these days