Downtown Las Vegas / Fremont Street

Downtown Las Vegas includes "The Fremont Street Experience", which is a covered section of Fremont Street that was set up in 1995. The covered section is between Las Vegas Blvd. and the Plaza Hotel, which used to be called the Grand Plaza.

Binion's Gambling Hall, which was known as Binion's Horseshoe before 2005.

Inside Binion's. You can see a Haywire, Triple Diamond, and Red White & Blue slot machine in one photo but I can't find any information about what years these machines were in operation. The photos were shot before 2002.

Golden Nugget Las Vegas. Out of all the downtown casinos, Golden Nugget most closely resembles the megaresorts on the strip. Steve Wynn invested in the Frontier in 1967 and Golden Nugget in 1971. He went on to build the Mirage, Treasure Island, Bellagio, Wynn and Encore. He stepped down from Wynn Resorts in 2018 due to legal issues.

Giant slot machine in the Golden Nugget and directional signage pointing to the Lounge and Keno. These photos were shot sometime in the late 90s / early 2000s.

Fitzgerald's Las Vegas went bankrupt in 2000 and the property became "The D". Fitzgerald's had a "Luck of the Irish" theme.

Fitzgerald's registration desk. The plastic buckets you see on top of the slot machines were for carrying large quantities of quarters, before Las Vegas slot machines converted to coinless.

This photo was taken from the non-covered part of Fremont Street, showing the canopy that covers the Fremont Street Experience.

This is one of my oldest photos, Fremont Street in 1992, before they put up the canopy. I recall using a disposable cardboard camera on this trip.