{"id":1172,"date":"2015-09-19T07:09:47","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T16:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flytippings.com.php53-12.ord1-1.websitetestlink.com\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2015-09-21T06:04:26","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T15:34:26","slug":"las-vegas-nm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/?p=1172","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas, NM"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Once upon a time, Las Vegas ( Spanish for ‘the springs’) was a prosperous destination place. \u00a0Fred Harvey had built a resort hotel, and trains brought tourists. \u00a0 The Plaza hotel, which is on the plaza, was rather swanky at one time. \u00a0 Management have just re-swanked it and apparently the movie ‘John Carpenter’s “Vampires”‘ was made right here.<\/p>\n

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That movie could have played at the curiously named ‘Serf’ theater.<\/p>\n

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It’s been years since Las Vegas was prosperous, so there is lots of lovely decay to photograph. \u00a0 Back when I was in college, I remember one of my professors * used to come to Las Vegas every weekend to photograph things. \u00a0(I saw that he later published a book of photographs of concentration camps, but I would rather see his Las Vegas.)<\/p>\n

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Like this lovely old bank that sits catty-corner to the Plaza Hotel, across the plaza.<\/p>\n

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This building is a remnant of the railroad tourist boom. \u00a0 Fred Harvey did a lively trade in flogging Navajo art and rugs to the tourists. \u00a0Some of it was tourist quality and some of it was museum quality. \u00a0 The core holdings of the Heard Museum in Phoenix came from the Fred Harvey collection.<\/p>\n

There is a group of investors who bought the old railroad hotel and are attempting to modernize it and make Las Vegas a destination resort again. \u00a0 Perhaps it will actually happen, perhaps it will stay the same.<\/p>\n