1991 - Los Angeles CA - Palm Springs CA - Las Vegas NV
I don't have any notes about this trip! And it was pre-digital.
I believe we flew into Los Angeles, spent a day or two, rented a car and drove to Palm Springs, then to Las Vegas. Returning back to Los Angeles we then headed home.
LAX
Originally named Grauman's Chinese Theatre, it was renamed Mann's Chinese Theatre in 1973.
Hollywood and Vine
Olvera Market
We did a Hollywood Celebrity tour.
Monroe - DiMaggio
Rod Stewart
Rodeo Drive
Venice Beach
This was our first time in Palm Springs and using Vacation Internationale's Oasis Resort.
Living Desert
The gardens of the Low Desert – Colorado Desert were established in 1970 as a 360-acre (150 ha) wilderness preserve by several trustees of the Palm Springs Desert Museum. By 1974, the gardens housed a kit fox, tortoises, lizards, and two bighorn sheep. In 1974–75 the Mojave Garden was built, a replica of the High Desert – Mojave Desert. Additional facilities have gradually been constructed, including greenhouses, model trains, and designed landscape gardens. New animal introductions include rhim gazelles (1981).
Aerial Tramway
The Pines to Palms Scenic Byway (California State Route 74) runs from the coast, over the San Jacinto Mountains to nearby Palm Desert several miles southeast of Palm Springs.
LAS VEGAS NV
On 23 May 1955 the Dunes Hotel and Casino opened – the 10th resort on the Strip, and Las Vegas was booming! Two other casinos had opened in the previous month, the Riviera and Royal Nevada, and the off-Strip Moulin Rouge was planned for the following day.
The Dunes was themed on the stories of the Arabian Nights, accompanied by the slogan “The Miracle in the Desert”. On opening it offered 200 rooms across a two story building with a central 90 ft. long V-shaped swimming pool and a 150 ft. lagoon. Towers were added later in 1961 and 1979, and the famous Casino de Paris show began in 1963 – a show that had been seen by more than 2 million people by 1969.
The Dunes was located on a significant large 85 acre plot where today the Bellagio stands. Sections of the Park MGM, New York-New York, CityCenter, and Cosmopolitan are now situated where the extensive Dunes golf course once was. The Dunes closed in 1993.
I couldn't believe we had this photo of Fremont St. Vegas Vickie and Vegas Vic are outside!
Before there was Harrah’s Las Vegas Hotel and Casino, there was another resort in its place on the Las Vegas Strip.
In the early 1970s, a riverboat themed casino by the name of Holiday Casino was based at that location.
Mirage permanently closed in 2024.
Mirage Volcano
A historic hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip that operated from 1952 to 1996. The Sands was designed by Wayne McAllister and was considered one of the world's most lavish hotels at the time. The Sands was known for its entertainment, with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr. performing in the Copa Room. The Sands was demolished in 1996 and redeveloped into The Venetian.
November 2004 - Palms Springs CA - Las Vegas NV - Los Angeles CA
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