How Las Vegas Was FoundedHelen Mahoney
Brian "Paco" Alvarez is an anthropologist, tour guide and lifelong resident of Las Vegas, who took "Sunday Morning" to a part of the city where it actually began. Where the Union Hotel now stands was once a train depot where the land auction that founded Las Vegas took place in 1905...
Officially founded in 1905, the same year the railroad came to the area, Las Vegas started out as little more than a dusty rest stop for the railroad workers who were stationed there. But not long after the last spike was pounded into the ground, the town boasted newspapers, banks, ice ...
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To comprehend the evolution of this highly developed city in the middle of nowhere, we need to turn the clocks back to the year 1905 which is when Vegas was officially founded. The mighty Vegas of today had very humble beginnings. The city was born out of requirement for a rest stop for...
People in Las Vegas would often organize trips to nearby peaks and picnic in view of mushroom clouds. In 1957, one such test called HOOD was part of an overall program called Operation Plumbbob, which was designed to see if damaged nuclear bombs emitted harmful levels of radioactivity. The ...
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