“Caught on Film” Events That Shaped the Face of Las Vegas, is a Las Vegas Centennial sanctioned historical photographic exhibit, sponsored by the Greater Las Vegas Association of REALTORS® and Las Vegas Homes Illustrated.

 

"Caught On Film"
Events That Shaped The Face of Las Vegas

Exhibit Date:
August 5 , 2005 - October 7, 2005

Time:
Fridays: 4:00 P.M. - 8:00 P.M.
(On First Fridays, 6:00 P.M. - 10:00 P.M.)
Saturdays & Sundays: 12:00 P.M. - 4:00 P.M.

Venue:
1551 S. Commerce (near Wyoming)
on the First Friday bus tour

Admission is free.

For more information please email us at
asstpub@speakeasy.net
or call 702.340.1524.

We need greeters.  If you'd be interested in spending four hours showing visitors through our exhibit, please click here.

 

 

 
The exhibit covers extra-large photos of four events:

Extremely rare photos of the early tent city on the Las Vegas Spring and the first buildings and houses on Fremont Street, continuing in time all the way through the implosions on the Strip.

Spectacular three feet by five feet photos of the building of the Hoover ( Boulder ) Dam.

Nine breath-taking color photos of the above-ground nuclear detonations.

The shocking photos of the 1980 MGM fire taken by the Clark County Fire Department and Gary Thompson of the Review Journal.