In the 1990s, businesses, hotels, and casinos started looking for alternate ways of getting visitors to open their wallets, so they tried a different approach and promoted Las Vegas as a family vacation destination. The Excalibur Hotel, MGM Grand Adventures Park, and Casinos opened on the Las Vegas Strip started the Sin City’s family-friendly era. The 1990s was the era of mega-hotels and theme parks. In 1993, a unique pink-domed 5-acre indoor amusement park, Grand Slam Canyon, became part of the Circus Circus hotel. Las Vegas elected its first female mayor, Jan Laverty Jones. The Neon Museum was founded in 1996 that features signs from old casinos and other businesses displayed outdoors on 2.62 acres.
Several movies were also made that kept the freedom and pop culture of the city alive such as ‘Indecent Proposal (1993)’, ‘Leaving Las Vegas (1995)’ and ‘Showgirls (1995)’. Here below are some photos that will take you back to the 1990s Las Vegas.
Check out some other stunning photos of Las Vegas from the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
#1 Vegas World sign, 1991
#2 Las Vegas strip at night, 1990
#3 Huntridge Theater, July 10, 1996
#4 Holy Cow! Brewery, Las Vegas Blvd S & Sahara, June 27, 1996.
#5 Fremont Street Las Vegas March 1994
#6 El Rancho, Las Vegas, 1991.
#7 Stratosphere under construction, Las Vegas, 1994.
#8 Construction of Fremont Street Experience, August 1995
#9 Installation of the sign at Rio Las Vegas, 1990
#10 Fremont St, Las Vegas, 1993
#11 Las Vegas Blvd, 1990
#12 MGM Grand, Las Vegas, 1993
#13 Excalibur, before it’s grand opening. Las Vegas, 1990
#14 Hacienda, December 31, 1996 – fireworks show right before the tower implosion.
#15 Construction of Bellagio, c. 1996.
#16 Wee Kirk O’ The Heather, April 9, 1955
#17 Under the marquee of 4 Queens, Fremont St, August 1966
#18 Downtown Las Vegas, 1990
#19 Golden Goose & Glitter Gulch c. 1990
#20 The Algiers Hotel, Las Vegas, 1990s
#21 Normandie Motel, 708 S Las Vegas Blvd.
#22 At work on the Flamingo, 1995.
#23 Landmark Hotel. Las Vegas, 1995.
#24 Vegas World closed. Stratosphere under construction. Las Vegas, 1995.
#25 Rio, Las Vegas, 1990
#26 Dunes & Oasis Casino, August 1990
#27 Las Vegas, Fisher, and Star View motels in 1999.
#28 Flamingo, Las Vegas, 1990
#29 Vegas World, 1991.
#30 Poolside at Shangri-La Bar, Imperial Palace, Las Vegas, 1991.
#31 Luxor Hotel & Casino under construction, c. November, 1992.
#32 El Cortez, Las Vegas, 1992
#33 Harrah’s Las Vegas, 1995.
#34 Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, 1996
#35 Starship Orion and Countryland, Las Vegas, 1997.
#36 Las Vegas Strip, July 1992
#37 Rio Las Vegas, 1990
#38 Fremont & Main – view from the top of Plaza Hotel.
#39 Holiday Casino at night, Las Vegas, 1990
#40 Las Vegas Transit, October 1991. South of Tropicana.
#41 Bourbon Street and Maxim on Flamingo Rd, Las Vegas, 1991
#42 Golden Goose and Glitter Gulch, Las Vegas, 1991.
#43 Fremont Street, Las Vegas, 1992
#44 South 3rd St & Utah Ave, Las Vegas
#45 Building the Luxor pyramid, April 1, 1993
#46 Casino Royale, Las Vegas, 1994-1995
#47 Fremont Street just after being closed to traffic, 1994
#48 Royal Hotel & Casino, Convention Center Dr, June 1995
#49 Main Street, Las Vegas, June 1995.
#50 Stratosphere during construction, September 1995.
#51 Sands Hotel. Las Vegas, 1995.
#52 Riviera on the Las Vegas Strip, July 1995.
#53 Desert Rose Motel, Las Vegas Strip, 1995.
#54 Construction of Fremont Street Experience, Summer 1995.
#55 Cardinal Motel, 1996
#56 Las Vegas Strip, October 1997
#57 1-Hour Duo-Cleaning at Strip Centre, Las Vegas, 1991.
#58 Wreckage of the Las Vegas Hilton sign after a storm, July 21, 1994.
#59 Mid-Towner Hotel, 211 N. 7th St., Las Vegas, 1990
#60 Desert Inn, March 21, 1997
#61 Driving up the Strip, December 1990
#62 Binion’s Horseshoe, Las Vegas, November 1992
#63 Lady Luck – 3rd & Ogden – 1992
#64 Golden Gate Hotel & Casino, December 1992
#65 Excalibur, Las Vegas, 1993.
#66 Caesars Palace. Las Vegas, April 11, 1994.
#67 Sands. Las Vegas, 1994.
#68 Black Jack Motel, 2809 Fremont
#69 Las Vegas, June 1990s
#70 Denny’s and Joey’s New Yorker on the right, present location of Casino Royale.
#71 Entering Oz. MGM Grand, Las Vegas, 1994-1995.
#72 Construction of Mandalay Bay, 1977
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This is 1997. The Hacienda was torn down in 1996 and Mandalay Bay was built on the site. The white Geo Metro parked in the lot is from the early 1990’s.
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This cannot be Mandalay Bay, if the date is correct. According to its wiki site, it was built in late 1990’s.
