Lucky Strike Club, Fremont St – 1961.
Photo by Howard Morehead, @UCLALibrary
We don't know who the woman is, but the photo was taken when Howard Morehead was in Las Vegas shooting for the opening of Westside's Carver House.
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The “win the west” tour of the ‘64 Presidential campaign brought President Johnson to speak before of a crowd of 7,500 at the Convention Center.
Johnson stayed the night at the Sahara. Next morning they took Las Vegas Blvd south to McCarran Field.
Photos by Francis Miller.
Railroad workers in the desert. Tracks reached Las Vegas for the first time in October 1904.
Salt Lake Tribune had this report two weeks later:
"In this little valley, heretofore one of the quietest and most remote portions of the Union, has suddenly sprung up a town of many hundred souls ... Camp followers of every undesirable kind have followed the graders and tracklayers and the natural result is immorality in the worst form. Saloons are everywhere and gambling is rife."
Photo: Elbert Edwards Photograph Collection (PH-00214) @unlvsc.
Here's the article from Salt Lake Tribune, Oct. 21, 1904, p.1
