Las Vegas 1964 archive footage

[@pmafterdark]

Love the old cars and the beautiful creative signage. It's amazing how much open space there was still around the area.

[@bobcuster8930]

Yes, true, the population was 15% of what it is today in Las Vegas. No wonder there was more open space.

[@vulcano911]

How weird. I don't see people wearing cool clothes like shorts, tennis shoes and t-shirts. Wasn't it hot at that time?

[@jamesd242]

where are the old hookers?

[@majestyk3337]

@@vulcano911 It was probably winter, which was a little cooler back then.

[@NYcat13]

great vid...nice older crowd..back when life was so much safer and calmer.....I miss old Vegas..today these massive casino monstrosities have taken over the good ol' feel of the town...thank you for posting..I enjoyed it...and that sax

[@lindabradford9591]

Oh yes, I miss old vegas too! It was way more fun years ago!

[@angeldesigns1385]

There will never be another age like the space age and how I wish I could have be born in those times….but no, I just had to be a late 70’s kid!

[@ericfriendzoned1303]

It wasn't safer, the mob would have the best of you and get away with it. Now you can't go know where without getting searched.

[@BenSussmanpro]

I was in Vegas in 1972 as a teen , and this is more or less how the streets looked - mostly tacky, interspersed with the big-name casinos.

[@MrZola1234]

Love the old Vegas footage. Such a different skyline from when I started coming in the late 80s. So few big hotels, this is even pre Caesars Palace. All that downtown neon looks great, maybe more inviting than downtown today.

[@brainoneill7639]

Love the old cars. Wonderful footage from a time.

[@Footageforprocom]

Many thanks!

[@remylopez4821]

Problem is they were not old back then, but don’t you wish you can go back in time to lease pick one up and bring it back to the future

[@matrox]

@@remylopez4821 Back then an old car would be 1930s car which you would occasionally see still tooling down the road. One of my fathers friends back then had a 1930s car that he still drove. He was probably 10, 15 or 20 years older than my father so he may have bought it new.

[@michaelmeyers3664]

I did not see any 400 pound purple hair Walmart people!!!

[@RICHBLACKCOCK]

​@@michaelmeyers3664In the early 1960's? No way. The Hippies would arrive 3 years later in '67 after this film clip & then things started to get really FREAKY! MONTEREY, WOODSTOCK, ISLE OF WIGHT etc.

[@jacobpenkava2980]

When I watch these videos I feel nostalgic about these businesses that are no longer there. I believe I'm an old soul and that's why these old places relate somewhere in my heart

[@paulnicolosi4792]

Back when the Mob ran the casinos. As a kid, I stayed at The Hacienda that year with my parents. In later years, I worked there as a musician. Those days were ‘magic’ Great music choice, by the way…

[@phlgriffin]

Loved the music!

[@mrkeno1000]

1964 my first trip to Vegas, in my 56 chevy belair. The excitement was unmeasurable. The first hotel I went to was the Sahara, I really miss that Vegas. I have asked locals what they think of all the changes most of them all say the same thing they hate it, I agree total gridlock

[@ShogunHull]

Its the style and savoir faire that left Vegas a while after when the corporations took over. It ruined everything. No fun anymore at all for me. Ppl wear spandex shorts with everything hangin' out and flip flops into the hotels (pardon me while i barf)...looking their worst... just disgusting... and the hotels kept getting bigger and bigger for $$$ and the ppl were looking nastier and nastier. Now there's nothing much to glean from it... no excitement... its all been dragged down into a joke.

[@ShogunHull]

The **40's, 50's and 60's* were great...even the 70's.

[@RICHBLACKCOCK]

​@@ShogunHullVegas was better when the MOB ran it. They kept things SIMPLE! U go to Vegas then, keep your 👃 NOSEclean, have a good time & go home with stories to tell. What happened in Vegas, stayed in Vegas. At least then; Now...the whole 🌎 WORLD is there a long with BIG $$$ money corporations.

[@1990758]

Segregation 1964 Las Vegas.

[@glenngarofano4793]

When Vegas was fun!

[@ShogunHull]

true true

[@Lees706]

Wow what memories. If it was possible to go back to 1964 . I would go back in a heartbeat.

[@markrichmond2168]

The lady in curlers with a cigarette in her mouth playing the slots- classic.

[@kentduryea7109]

They were called one armed bandits for obvious reasons.

[@dans9463]

4:33

[@malcolmmarshall5946]

Love the old cars. When I was a boy in '64, we had a '62 Chevy Impala and a '63 Ford Galaxie.

[@WUMA-WattsUp]

I still have a 64 Nova and a 65 F100!

[@matrox]

We had a 55' Rocket 88 Olds up until 64'.

[@malcolmmarshall5946]

@@matrox Very cool 😎

[@RICHBLACKCOCK]

​@@malcolmmarshall5946Green '64 Chevy BelAire until 1971. In the 60's, my dad would pile us in on early Saturday mornings & we'd go 🎣 fishing at Wolf Lake on the IIIINOIS/INDIANA STATE line, not far from USS & INTERLAKE Steel companies. Miss those days. Everybody was alive & healthy.

[@yvettekelley2155]

This was a great video to reminisce thank you so much! The lady in the curlers is pretty hilarious.

[@Footageforprocom]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@pjesf]

Love her😍‼️

[@rubicon-oh9km]

Moved to Nevada in '96 and have seen Vegas hundreds of times. It's hard to imagine it was once this open. Heavy traffic is nonexistent, and it looks like a medium sized town in any state USA.

[@berth8539]

This is fantastic stuff across the board. Do wish the "footageforpro" was put lower or off to the side. People can still get the message without it being right there the whole time. Regardless, great reminiscing.

[@calbob750]

Vintage Jazz! Smokin Kools on the nickel slots. Milton Berle, Frank Gorshin, Redd Fox. Nostalgia overload for those over 70.

[@mixtecs]

Not a single teenager, baby stroller, or busker in sight, as should be, love this vegas

[@ednacastro829]

Love our kids more than ever. That is why we take them every where

[@gd2bking1]

​@@ednacastro829What a stupid comment!

[@dogsandyoga1743]

Why just take gambling money when you can get family money as well? 😊

[@michaelmeyers3664]

I did not see any 400 pound purple hair Walmart people!!!

[@malibustacy3606]

Not a family vacation destination back in 1964.

[@Andydpersonalvids]

What a time capsule. I love the city I feel at home there. Great footage.

[@Footageforprocom]

Many thanks!

[@VintageLasVegas]

4:14 the star of the show! incredible film

[@oldiesgeek454]

Lol... You know you're a degenerate gambler when you're playing two slots at once. 😊

[@danielroque8504]

Pahrump, Nevada, still has these fabulous stars~

[@mreppen1]

@@oldiesgeek454with hair curlers on. She looked like a meth addict.

[@malibustacy3606]

And the Confessions magazine on the rack behind her with catchy stories like "Heavy Petting Made Me Pregnant."

[@pjesf]

@@malibustacy3606Good eye! I had to go back and pause to see that Confessions cover. She’s definitely the star of this video - those ROLLERS😍 and that CIGARETTE😍‼️😂

[@brianmclean7445]

This is a little before my time by 15 years, but what I remember on my 1st trip it was sort of like this, just modern, well more cars too, but Fremont Street you could still drive on, hotel/casinos were being built and torn down. Stopped into a bar in Binion's Horseshoe Casino, the one with the corner stage, and the turned wooden spindles on the short wall listening to music, think it was jazz or maybe 50-60’s slower music and playing keno. After going to the cafe for breakfast at 2:15AM, the big breakfast 3 eggs, bacon, sausage ham, hash browns and toast all for less than 5 bucks. Watching and listening to the music brings me back to a more simple time. Thank You for the video and getting me reminiscing.

[@Kanamit.]

*Thank you for that excellent video and music. It really was a nice view of the old days.*

[@Footageforprocom]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@LAtoVEGASMMA]

Got lost for a moment in another time cool video thanks to whoever filmed it and whoever put it on youtube

[@texasstardust6010]

...When Las Vegas was Iconic. It was better. Safer. Better in so many ways. ...it is now Over -run Over built, over crowded, OVERLY EXPENSIVE,... no longer recognizable in the ways it should be. Beautiful footage, thank you.

[@discostu5426]

lol...the addicted lady playing the slots in her curlers, dusk is my favorite time on the strip, just as it's getting dark and the lights from the casinos start popping on.

[@shaneburas1124]

Back when america was great and all her cities were great, i love vegas, would move their in a heartbeat if there was an oilfield industry.

[@donguess4332]

The 50's, 60's and 70's were the best of times in America. So many great things come from this Era. The good far outweighed the bad.. Certainly not perfect but far better than 2023. America and humanity in general is in a death spiral.

[@gd2bking1]

With Jim Crow and Red lining......SOOOO GREAT!

[@michaelmeyers3664]

I did not see any 400 pound purple hair Walmart people!!!

[@RICHBLACKCOCK]

​@@gd2bking1& JFK was 🥃 shot & killed in DALLAS just months earlier in 1963. End of November.

[@donpodlas5546]

In 1980 I began what would turn out to be a 30 year career in the casino business. I broke in as a Blackjack dealer at the Lady Luck in downtown Las Vegas. Over the next three decades I worked all over the state of Nevada. including Laughlin, Mesquite and a few others. It was quite a ride. I do miss it, sometimes.

[@LMcCain-c3c]

Nice, love the bkgrnd musical choice too. Thanks for this

[@Footageforprocom]

Thank you too!

[@andydeniseposey426]

Excellent!!!

[@Footageforprocom]

Glad you like it!

[@louistaylor2769]

I remember going to the stardust drive in . And going to the silver sliper arcade those were the good years.

[@Teorisma]

08:59 Hotel Fremont, i used to employed from 1971 to 1999.

[@patr70]

Wow. You're a survivor. I liked Las Vegas the best in the mid 1990s when Treasure Island, MGM Grand, and Luxor were new. By 2001 it was already a very different landscape and was too crowded, expensive, and over-hyped. You retired at the perfect time 🙄

[@3x3mm]

❤️Las Vegas here now due to covid reassessment of life in FL and an ungrateful employer.

[@dennislavoie5869]

I wasn’t even born yet. Not until 1965. Love the old cars

[@jonnydanger7181]

This is awesome! 🎲

[@Footageforprocom]

Thank you 🙌

[@williamcooper2368]

Awesome video ❤️

[@Footageforprocom]

Thank you 🤗

[@d.martin7692]

My divorced mom and I saw Dean Martin and Count Basie at the Sands back then. We stayed at the Stardust and swam in the big pool. I wish I could have been a better more suitable companion for her. Thanks for taking me along mommy.

[@herbredholtz1738]

This is the Vegas I remember visiting with my parents every summer from a toddler through my early 20s. Wish there was a time machine!

[@gibby100]

Love to see a then and now of the strip

[@LordKhyron85]

The movie marquee visible at 1:21 lists "Charade" and "The Raiders", both of which were released in December 1963 per IMDb, so your estimate that it was early 1964 is probably correct.

[@pjesf]

4:28 working those slots in rollers while her hair sets 😍

[@ericbond5276]

Multi-tasking.

[@paulj2948]

Great nostalgic video. Especially the smoking woman in rollers at the slots.

[@matrox]

I like how no one getting robbed, no car jackings. Back then you would park your car and leave your windows down til you returned and all your stuff was not messed with.

[@davidbreen4353]

holy mackrel. what a difference from back then until today. the hotels weren't 40, 50 story's tall, a lot of little dinky motels, all those one armed bandits machines, they really look ancient. the older people, none of them looked too happy, and that one lady in curlers. neat video, and they call it progress!

[@michaelmeyers3664]

I did not see any 400 pound purple hair Walmart people!!!

[@davidwesley2525]

​@@michaelmeyers3664and No Transgenders , Maybe a Few Drag Queens Here & There . 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Zocky73166]

Rather 1964 ? 0:46 - '64 Impala, 3:15 - '64 Imperial, 3:38 - '64 Galaxie

[@VintageLasVegas]

Pretty sure the film is March 1964

[@3x3mm]

The cars.👍

[@oldiesgeek454]

@@VintageLasVegas And Beatlemania was in full swing. They played the LV Convention Center in August of that year. 😊

[@LoLa-OR]

It didn't look too much different when I arrived about 12-13 years later. Taxi's were still red, white and blue and the dust storms were an awful nuisance. I wish it was still a small little town in the desert like it used to be. Too big, crowded and expensive now.

[@johnjaco5544]

What amazes me is how Las Vegas has been ruined. Too much drugs gangs over crowding homelessness Street prostitutes. It's just sad.

[@malibustacy3606]

So just like every other city then.

[@RICHBLACKCOCK]

​@@malibustacy3606Pretty much.

[@nightowl5475]

Vegas had its own style back then.

[@onthesurface.arts7]

I 'm enthralled with the fantastic music. Who's playing?

[@garydakota6222]

Let me ask you something? Is the person that shot this footage afraid his copyright will be stolen? This would have been a very good historic video if not for the stamp across the front of the video? Hey bud if you are afraid of this happening how about not showing it.

[@newstart49]

One road in and out. Was great back then. It is horrible now.

[@histubeness]

Please move the footageforpro logo down to the corner. Minimize it. Just do it.

[@sunnyscott4876]

I remember this so well. /thanks.

[@Nonduality]

I learned two things from this video: One, the lights were as bright as ever, and, Two, heavy petting can make you pregnant.

[@Qrail]

Aha! The Castaways, and the Thunderbird. 2 places I visited in the early 70’s. My guess is the footage inside the bus was a trip to Boulder Dam. I worked for that bus line.

[@thesilentdiva]

It's amazing to me that the thought of putting chairs at slots so ppl would stay longer didn't occur sooner..... 🙃

[@DorothyOHumdrum]

Whats the song in the background?

[@Go4it-5287]

Was I the only one waiting for someone to hit a Jackpot?

[@Happyboymargarine]

Looked a lot cooler then.

[@jamespn]

Nickel slots, pack of Kools, life’s good, dig the pink curlers.

[@choward5430]

.57 1957 Oldsmobile Fiesta Wagon. A very rare car today. Woman pulling two slots in hair curlers! My mom wouldn't be caught dead in public like that!

[@thatoneskyline]

"Bright light city gonna set my soul, gonna set my soul on fire. Got a whole lot of money that's ready to burn so get the stakes up higher."

[@HRConsultant_Jeff]

I see Sheckey Greene playing at the Riviera here. He is still with us at 97 years old God Bless Him. Almost the last one standing from those days.

[@secretchannel4747]

Mr. Greene passed away on December 31, 2023 in Las Vegas. A long life, well lived.

[@cherilynnfisher5658]

"Dayyyyyyyng"! "WOW, It's nothing short of a miracle that I survived this!

[@vulcano911]

04:22 This woman combed her hair, put on makeup, dressed appropriately and went to have fun at the casino

[@matrox]

And 1 year later our family would drive north to attend the 1964-65 New York Worlds Fair when I was in elementary school. The first time I got to see the Ford Mustang in real life, the first time I saw an Airbag demonstration, the first time I got to see a man being shot out of a cannon and the first time I saw a man fly with a Jet pack on his back.☝😁 The 60s were such a great time for kids to grow up. Great music and cool cars and the sexy ladies.✊😏

[@RICHBLACKCOCK]

@matrox Sexy ladies with CLASS! or, as Sinatra called 'em: DAMES.

[@markedson2206]

I remember my parents took home ashtrays from the Thunderbird Hotel where they always stayed. Wish I still had them although I never smoked.

[@ShogunHull]

Its too bad that when you started the camera... you didn't get the El Rancho Vegas property or the Sahara...across from it. I saw only a lonely Thunderbird tall neon... not the hotel. the El Rancho was and always will be the Cornerstone of the Strip... all on my Dad's land... to the Riviera and the Westward Ho past the Riviera Hotel... I saw the Algiers sign which was next to the Sahara.. the El Rancho Vegas again directly across the street.

[@henryszlanta9986]

I love american cars, i bought Ford Fairlane 500 coupe -64 and Ford Thunderbird -66 in Sweden, we love american cars in Sweden, great video i think of Rat Pack when i see this video 👍🇺🇸🇸🇪

[@Footageforprocom]

Very cool!

[@henryszlanta5350]

If you want to see a lot of american cars in Sweden you can google "Power meet", then you can see thai Sweden love american cars, Henry 👍

[@rickwashburn6509]

Back when Las Vegas had real character & personality, unlike today.

[@MeekelDubya]

Oh it’s got character alright lol may not be the one we all appreciate 😅

[@marlathe80sgirl96]

Love all the vintage footage but why are all the people old???

[@melaniexoxo]

Vegas was considered an old person town back then. Young people didn’t care about vegas

[@HappinessIsAJourney]

Older please

[@Mark-sj3xb]

Vegas was then like Branson, Missouri is now

[@hauntedhighway2166]

My hometown.❤

[@showguyer]

Neat seeing those old slot machines. Ones that were actual real nickle and penny machines. Lol

[@steeelyj]

Black fingertips 😂 moist towelettes 👐

[@pMcgov56]

Remembe going there in summer of 1964, stayed at the Orbit Inn

[@GeorgeDamon]

How sad to know that all that cool midcentury architecture is now gone forever.

[@Mark-yy2py]

The lady with curlers plunking down nickels in those slot machines has since gone to the great casino in the sky, perhaps plunking down dollar slots! 😂

[@MrRMT1986]

Back then, the dealers knew your name, what you played and what you drank. Nowadays you get a $4 million whale checking into the hotel, and the 23 year old clerk wants to see a social security card. And if you order room service, you’re lucky if you get it by Tuesday

[@drewbizdev]

A+ on the video, but the watermark sucks.

[@BETTERWORLDSGT]

It must have been nice then, I drove through about 20 years ago and it was a traffic nightmare, the only place I could find to stay the night without going broke was on the outskirts in this Motel that was still way overpriced.

[@quickies9561]

Oh this would've been amazing to be there

[@rayneuy3273]

really good

[@pattibuchhalter6671]

This is how it shoud be. Kids have Disney, adults need LAS VEGAS without kids!!!

[@davidwesley2525]

@pattibuchhalter6671 Today Disneyland & Las Vegas Steal Your Hard Earn Money 💰. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@irmajeannava]

The good old days,town sucks now 😢

[@daciefusjones8128]

what's a matter? did you lose too much money?

[@oldiesgeek454]

So it's been nearly 60 years since this was shot, and nearly every comment on this thread is a positive one. I wonder what the comment section will look like in 2084, when someone uploads a video of LV in 2024?🤔

[@YaraMay20]

Why was everything better back then. Coming from a Gen Z. I prefer Vegas in the 1960’s over todays. Also the 80s still the best decade.

[@AnnmarieMcCartan]

THIS IS WHAT LAS VEGAS LOOKED LIKE WHEN WE ARRIVED IN 1965 😢😢

[@chriscosby2459]

This was when Las Vegas was cool.

[@AnnmarieMcCartan]

MY DAUGHTER SHANNON WON WEE MISS NEVADA WHEN SHE WAS THREE YERS OLD ❤🎉❤ AT THE THUNDERBIRD HOTEL AND CASINO IT IS NOT THERE ANYMORE ..😊😊😊

[@samtron5000]

Las Vegas was 10x more cloudy back then .. those were the days

[@samtron5000]

Also lots of motels lmao… honestly it was best in the late 70s to early 90s most likely.

[@guidine7]

much more likeable than today 😔

[@matrox]

4:20 Thats so....ghetto.😝😆 Kind of sad though. Probably looking for a winner to pay her rent.

[@ericbond5276]

Oh leave her alone. She's help building a casino.

[@jimjackson4256]

I like the chick smoking a cigarette while dumping money into the slot machine.She would be a real sinkhole for your money.

[@roachtoasties]

Anyone over 40 (which appears to be almost everybody) in the video is almost certainly deceased. Even the 30 somethings that are still alive are in their 90s. :/

[@thewiseguy3529]

Scary right ahahhahhaha welcome to freaky land

[@Desert679]

2:14 I guarantee that is West Main Street Barstow Ca the famous Sage Motel on top of the hill.

[@surfsunsand]

Upon further review, it looks like there was a time when people in Vegas knew how to drive.

[@jessejames586]

The url in the center of the screen is annoying!

[@andrewcross4845]

I can't help thinking that the woman in curlers, smoking a Kool and showing all the signs of a gambling addiction was probably someone's mother. What a nightmare.

[@lynneurbanik8703]

Back then it wasnt a freak show like today😢 8:38

[@TECHLOVER_91]

60's Vegas is actually very beautiful love the quality it's like actually being there 🤩 it's weird there are no black people around though

[@shaniceturner7640]

Ikr

[@erikjs]

Way back when, African Americans were pretty much relegated to living on the West side of town and were generally not allowed to visit the Strip unless they were there to work. They weren’t allowed to stay at the hotels either. A casino, the Moulin Rouge was opened on the West Side to cater to them. The place featured many black performers and was popular with both African Americans and white guests. But unfortunately it burned to the ground after only a few years and was never rebuilt. Things started to change with the Rat Pack, lead by Frank Sinatra who would not perform if their partner, Sammy Davis Jr. , wasn’t allowed to stay at the hotel they were performing at.

[@shaniceturner7640]

@@erikjs wow

[@starguy2718]

You would find them in Westside.

[@RICHBLACKCOCK]

​@@shaniceturner7640Same thing happened on MIAMI BEACH B4 LAS VEGAS. Davis wouldn't be allowed to perform so Sinatra & Martin didn't perform either.

[@melaniexoxo]

Back in this time people would run to be on camera. Now we all run away 😂

[@shmujew4791]

my parents had swizzle sticks from all those casinos and I threw them out

[@zekeonstormpeak4186]

Would have been nicer without the watermark smack in the middle?

[@marksitts2290]

Back then you got $20 in Nickels, and you played until you ran out. Today? You cannot even find a coin machine.

[@Csharpflat5]

Great music of the era, much cooler place then, edgy.

[@stephenannese8228]

Whatta great year......(I'll be 60/next year)......😢....!!