Monday, December 29, 2014

Twin lakes Lodge in Las Vegas There must be more I just can't find it

Neighborhoods in Las Vegas:

I found this!

https://www.google.com/search?q=Lorenzi+park+as+it+is+today+photos&espv=2&biw=1254&bih=607&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=4eWhVPvAFM7toATqt4LgCQ&ved=0CB0QsAQ






They recently rebuilt it so it is not the shg...ole it was in the 80s and 90s up till the rebuild.

Past


Every kid in the surrounding subdivisions came here to swim.  By the time I got here this was torn down.

http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/david-g-lorenzi

The history in the RJ newspaper is full of indignation which many of us share now to this day.

"Bill Vincent, the mild-mannered editor of the Review-Journal's Sunday Magazine, Nevadan, was incensed when he sat down at his typewriter that June day in 1966. The city of Las Vegas had acquired the old Twin Lakes resort and was converting it to a public park. Vincent titled his piece "How to Ruin a City Park" and went on to deplore the cutting of the many trees and foliage, the destruction of the old 1920s dance pavilion, and the desecration of David G. Lorenzi's unique dream of a recreational oasis in the desert. 
      "There isn't an old-timer in Las Vegas who hasn't sweet memories of picnicking and dancing cheek-to-cheek and swimming in one of the west's largest outdoor pools in the days when Twin Lakes was a country retreat from the heat."..."

http://www.lasvegasnevada.gov/images/LorenziPark_3.jpg

As it was once:

 

And before the subdivisions to the south and west arrived:



A tiny bit of Twin Lakes housing development is shown in the bottom left of the photo.

No comments:

Post a Comment