IVIV (13-14) Las Vegas

[rich]

thx for that link--love pics from this era

funny the things u find out

this pic: http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/attachments.aspx?attype=P&storycode=1996064&atcode=279563

billboard sign notes Tigers pitcher Denny McClain --seems he played
the organ and Vegas in 68 and 69
add baseball players to that sad litany of North Vegas losers
(the 31 in his name refers to his record 31 wins for Detroit in 1968)
McClain's gambling pretty much sunk his career

rich

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Clément Lévy <clemlevy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> But I also found great photos of Las Vegas in 1968 here:
> Las Vegas pictures by architects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, in
> 1968 (they wrote the first essay on Las Vegas ugly architecture):
> http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/1996064.article (click on the first photo
> to watch the other pictures in a bigger format)
>
> All the best,
> Clément
>
>