Las Vegas, Nevada. 1980

[@flipfloppingwithMike]

Thank you for this, Mackenzie....you brought back a flood of great memories for me. I was born and raised in Vegas, and it's hard to believe that most of the places in this video are long gone. My dad was the entertainment director at the Aladdin, Tropicana and the Landmark. I was there when the Landmark was being built. What a great video!!!

[@mackenzierough]

I'm glad that my home movie film brought back good memories.

[@justinmitchell5004]

Absolutely love the video because I also was born and raised in Vegas and remember riding up and down the strip when it was like this. Being able to see the Landmark from anywhere in town because at the time it was the same as the stratosphere is now. Can’t believe almost all of these great original places are gone. Appreciate you posting the video!

[@mackenzierough]

I'm so glad that you enjoyed my home movie and that it brought back good memories.

[@mackenzierough]

@@justinmitchell5004 I'm so glad my movie brought back great memories for you, everywhere has been ruined!

[@flipfloppingwithMike]

@@justinmitchell5004 Remember those days? Remember the Leaning Tower of Pizza, which was way out there where the Hacienda used to be? BIG mafia hangout. There was Scandia, cruising on Fremont Street, the motel at the end of The Strip that had the round windows looking into the pool....damn. It's all gone now.

[@magnusalexander1601]

This video is the Vegas of my childhood. I was born and raised there, and now it's nothing like it used to be. It has no heart and soul and is very plastic now. Thank you for posting this.

[@mackenzierough]

I'm glad that you enjoyed this home movie

[@toddsmart5509]

We drove down the strip this year at night when I was 9 years old. I was completed fascinated by the all of the neon lights. Started going there all the time after that. I'm really glad I got to see vintage Las Vegas.

[@itzmecandimorgon3323]

Riding the walkway at Caesars was fun lol

[@rodbirch5876]

Loooove this era of Vegas!

[@jeffhenry7749]

1980 was the first year I made it to Vegas. Buddy just turned 21 and I was a little older and his sister and husband took us. I remember this Vegas was great. I still go most every year but it's not the same. Lot's of places I stayed are no longer there. I was amazed at the place. That is when up to the 90's Vegas catered to common people not just high rollers like now. I still will never stay in one of the high roller casinos. I have been there 35 times or more but like the old way more. Ty for posting the video.

[@mackenzierough]

I'm so glad that this movie brought back good memories.

[@steveferguson823]

Was in Las Vegas. That year with ladies we saw the cars joureny. Bob seger

[@markmorningstar5374]

Wow! Thank you for posting this. I graduated High School in 1980 and went straight to Las Vegas to attend UNLV. Sweet memories. Oh how it has changed through the past 40+ years. So many places are gone: Landmark, Silver Slipper ("Tomorrow the diet. Today, the Great Buffet!"), Stardust, Dunes, Hacienda, Showboat, Sands (I even worked there just a few years before it's implosion.) as was the case with so many others! And remember Red McIlvaine? You couldn't have been in Las Vegas long during the 1970's through 1980's and not known of this local personality. I believe he was the spokesperson for the Silver Slipper's commercials. He even did a cameo appearance in 1984's Cannonball Run 2 (he stopped to offer assistance to the two beauties in the broken-down Lamborghini.) Oh what fun those days were...and nights too! ;^)

[@mackenzierough]

I'm glad that you enjoyed my home movie and the memories it brought back.

[@privateprivate1865]

@@mackenzierough i lived there in 1980 also. I visited in 2006 and it was not the same at all. Im lucky i got to experience classic casino era . As many casinos were still the original older ones then. And my mom waitressed at the silver Nugget casino. Thanks for posting

[@zekeonstormpeak4186]

The MGM grand burned in November of that year. The Barbary Coast is the Cromwell now.

[@XCambodianBuddha]

Wow.....this is 45 years ago. Its like if in 1980 you were watching something from 1935 and you'd be in disbelief at what life was like back then.

[@ricardoalon3826]

That's when Vegas was amazing, it's not the same anymore.

[@mackenzierough]

Sadly like most places today!

[@johnreape2833]

It was amazing in those years!! It was even better than I could have imagined, before I first moved out there in 78!!

[@JJ-gf5qs]

50 cent smokes, 2.95 dinner buffet, free steak and eggs, free beef stew… what a time to be alive

[@XCambodianBuddha]

$17 rooms at the Stardust.

[@ChrisBCartagena]

Worked at Caesars on front desk 75 and 76!

[@mackenzierough]

You must have seen many changes since then!

[@ChrisBCartagena]

@@mackenzierough dont even recognize the place..just nice memories...

[@justsomeobservations44]

I believe there are only 5 hotels remaining on The Strip that have the same name, same location as they did in 1980. Caesar’s Palace, Tropicana, Circus Circus, Sahara* and Flamingo** *The original Sahara was gutted and rebuilt as the SLS but they changed the name back to Sahara ** Flamingo Hilton just dropped the Hilton name

[@Davey7358]

No more Tropicana. Bally's is moving in.

[@christine3043]

@@Davey7358..and now Bally’s is known as The Horseshoe

[@srpdesigns]

25¢ Craps to $25 minimum bet!!..UNREAL!!

[@steveferguson823]

Thanks for posting that. Was class of 1980 the best 80s. Class 1980 had best music cars the class of 1980 rules.rocked. Was there with my grilfriend and some. Her grilfrinds. We saw the cars. Joureny. Bob seger. There.

[@mackenzierough]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@stephendacey8761]

My first time in Vegas was when I drove cross country from Boston to Southern California in the summer of 1987, and decided to stay the night in Vegas before reaching my final destination. I remember ending up staying at this run down and seedy hotel on Fremont street. I stayed there b/c it was cheap, and there were hookers bringing "john's" in to rooms all day and night. The next day, I walked Fremont street and it was a complete dump. There were drunks passed out in front of casinos, and it was very depressing. Everybody told me how wonderful Vegas was, but it was a huge let down. After checking out of the hotel, and heading West, I ended up on the Vegas strip with all the huge hotels with it's glitz and glamour and realized then what people meant when talking about Vegas. I remember it was a hot summer night and driving by Ceasers Palace was absolutely gorgeous. I said next time I come to Vegas I'll stay on the strip. Fast forward 35 years - been there over 25 times.

[@123milw]

My camera has a zoom lens and I'm going to use it!

[@XCambodianBuddha]

lol

[@mediablah]

Win or lose, always got good room and good food 👍

[@jasonhall4734]

Was there last month. Very tacky compared to back then but still liked it

[@ralphflori4129]

WE HAD OUR TIME.

[@vazz22]

To think Elvis Presley saw those same images on the strip

[@joycegonzalez4704]

Wow... nobody with a Cellphone in their face....Cool

[@UnderSprayedWhiteSkies]

Vegas Baby!

[@arnoldibay5929]

the original sphere in las vegas (6:19)? sept. 27, 2023

[@KevinShaughnessy-mt9jt]

Yes Caesars Omnimax Theatre . It was a disappointment to lose it not knowing that it was going to come back as a GIANT emoji. 😄

[@desmondcastro3679]

God bless you, Sammy Davis Jr.

[@mikesworld1921]

In November of '80 they had that horrible fire at the MGM Hotel.

[@markmorningstar5374]

I was living on the strip, just up the street from the MGM Grand Hotel, and was riding a bycicle back and forth to UNLV, so I got up that November morning and started to head down Harmon Ave., but it was closed off. Helicopters were transferring people from the MGM's roof/parking lot to the back lot off of Harmon Ave. I missed classes completely that day, and stayed until they reopened the road and things settled down. Wow, what an event that was to see, right up front from across the street. The flames shooting up, the black smoke, people up on the roof trying to get down. Awful. And I was at the University when the Pepcon plant blew up in May, 1988. That was absolutely amazing! It knocked-off garage doors and blew out windows over 3 miles away! It knocked a train off the tracks a few blocks away too, and leveled the Kidd & Co. Marshmallow Plant. The largest explosion had an estimated yield of 0.25 kiloton TNT equivalent (similar to a 1.0 kiloton nuclear explosion in free air). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEPCON_disaster

[@markmorningstar5374]

@@joshuawroblewski1716 I remember that Shakey's Pizza location. I was standing in the UNLV bookstore, inside the student union. It had plate glass windows from floor to ceiling 10-12 feet tall. After the first few small explosions hit, I (very stupidly) ran over to the glass windows to peer down the food court to the outside swinging glass doors. Boom! The inside windows flexed 1 inch towards my face and hit my nose. I was instantly made aware of how stupid it was of me to head towards ANY windows! More excited, and surprised at how much the windows flexed inside the building. Complete panic that day. Were you in Vegas for the NCAA Rebel's win? All the way across the valley, until way after midnight, you could still hear the chanting "RE-BELS...RE-BELS...RE-BELS!" I have never seen that town go so nuts! Confetti and shredded paper leaflets/perodicals from the newsstands all over the strip! And way too many hotel implosions to list. I still have video of walking through the MGM Theme Park, and 1991/92 New Year's Eve walking the crowded strip on 8mm videotape...someplace around here!

[@Longbeachliner]

Seeing the MGM is kinda creepy! The fire happened later in 1980.

[@KevinShaughnessy-mt9jt]

It's creepy The Las Vegas Hilton was originally an M. G M property & both fires happened at the same time Some residents believed that they were both jinxed

[@johnreape2833]

I was playing poker at the MGM, about 3 hours before the fire started. When I turned on the tv around 6am, I thought I was dreaming. It didn't seem real, but tragically it was.

[@johnreape2833]

@@KevinShaughnessy-mt9jt The Hilton fire was intentionally set. The MGM fire started in the kitchen. It was a grease fire, that got out of control fast. That was an accident.

[@Cybertruck-o9h]

My mom Was born in 1980

[@Bridgemanimages]

batch 3

[@JJ-gf5qs]

Cut from Sammy to David 😂

[@RADIUMGLASS]

You don't see strollers and kids running around.

[@VintageVaughnVehiclces]

Our family had that red Eldorado with white leather interior 1983 Eldorado barrettes, L4 package special order 31,000. True spoke Vogue wheels and tires. Wish it had been a 1980 so it would not have had the HD 4100 engine in it. Traded it for a Mercedes convertible that I have sitting in storage undriven for the past decade