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.

The Lost World

Las Vegas in the 1940s-50s and 60s.

Old Vegas is shown on various websites.

A fascinating and complex town that went from a tiny whistle stop to a large town in WW-II and later into a gambling and entertainment mecca.

Old Vegas hands will recognize some names here below.

First The Rat pack:

Reportedly called that by Lauren Bacall the wife of Humphrey Bogart when she saw them all drunk at Bogart's house.  Great story at this link

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lasvegas/sfeature/sf_book_02.html





Courtesy of:

https://iams.pbworks.com/w/page/26411758/B2%201940s%20De%20Zwaan



Hotel Apache Reportedly prostitution on the 2nd floor

El Dorado Club then later the Horseshoe first floor

Facing west on Fremont street

Then courtesy of:

http://classiclasvegas.squarespace.com/downtown-history/?currentPage=4

The Pioneer club

Scherer and his partners opened the Pioneer Club in 1942.

In a smart move in 1951, the Chamber of Commerce approached Young Electric Sign Company about designing and building a neon cowboy for thePioneer Club.  Vegas Vic was to become the icon of Fremont Street.  Myths over the years having various designers being responsible for Vic and many others purported to be the model.  Vic was designed by one of Yesco's Salt Lake City designers, Patrick Denner.  Vic was 75 feet tall, had one moveable arm with a glowing cigarette in one hand and the other arm moved back and forth.  He had a voice box that proclaimed "Howdy Podner" every 15 minutes.  Vic stopped talking in 1966 when Lee Marvin and Woody Strode, tired after a day of working on location in the Valley of Fire for the film "The Professionals", were kept awake by Vic's friendly greeting.  Taking a couple of bows and arrows from the prop department, one night they commenced shooting at Vic from their hotel rooms across the street at the Mint Hotel.  City Fathers decided that perhaps it was best if Vic stopped talking.  Vic has an older brother of sorts, Wendover Will located fittingly enough in Wendover, Nevada.  He, too, was designed by Patrick Denner

The Golden Nugget (eastern corner of Second and Fremont):

This originally was a two story Post Office.  Robert Griffiths was the postmaster in 1926.   Next to the Post Office was the Majestic Theaterwhich may have been owned by Ernie Cragin before he built the El Portal. Cragin and Pike Insurance had an office upstairs above the Theater.  The Post Office and Majestic Theater gave way to the Mission Bar.  It was only in business a short while before it became the Kiva Bar.  The Kiva gave way to the Golden Nugget.

Reputedly a complete photo history at:

http://inoldlasvegas.com/

1950



Ladies enjoying their "Fun in the Sun" Las Vegas vacation at the fifth major Strip casino-hotel,
The Desert Inn, which opened in 1950 across from The Last Frontier. This location is currently the site of 
Encore Hotel - (near the eastern edge of its casino, where it leads into the walkway-mall to The Wynn Hotel).




A look at the Dunes Hotel-Casino in 1956. The year 1955 brought four new hotels to the Las Vegas Strip.
The Royal Nevada, Riviera, Hacienda and The Dunes. Opening on May 23rd, 1955 - Dunes was basically 
a low-rise motel-casino, topped by a fiberglass statue of a sultan. It was located diagonally across from 
The Flamingo on the site currently occupied by the lake-fountains of Bellagio. 
The Dunes would undergo a major expansion in 1964.



When I arrived the Strip 1963