There is nothing as glorious, brightly lit or as kitsch as Las Vegas hotels architecture. Every year more than thirty five million people are drawn to the eccentric beauty of this town’s many themed landscaped resort hotels and casinos, which like among Highway 91 (also known as the Old Los Angeles Highway.)
Some of the most incredible and stunning Las Vegas Strip hotels are found along what is known as the Neon Strip or the Vegas Strip Along here you will find hotels that boast. Reproductions of the streets of New York at the famous New York New York Hotel and Casino, the canals of Venice at the Venetian Hotel and Casino, and a reproduction of the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triumph at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel and Casino. Also in this area you will find some of the oldest examples of Las Vegas hotel culture including the Sahara Hotel, The Desert Inn, The Sands and the El Rancho Vegas. These California ranch style lodgings from the forties and fifties were among the first places in the world gambling, restaurants, entertainment, shops, a travel agency, horseback riding, and swimming all under one roof.
One of the best examples of Las Vegas Strip hotel architecture, the Little White Chapel, was originally found on the grounds of El Rancho Vegas, which used to have an entire Frontier Village built on its grounds. The village is gone but the White Chapel, also known as the “Little Church of the West” still survives as a popular site for quickie nuptials.
A very famous Las Vegas Strip hotel is the Flamingo, which was built by colorful New York mobster Bugsy Siegel in the 1940s. Although the first resort was built in the 1890s, this is the period of time when Las Vegas really took off as a vacation spot. This self-contained playground soon became a magnet for the rich and famous after it was built and was the equivalent back then to what Miami South Beach is for young movie stars today.
