Everyday Las Vegas: Local Life in a Tourist Town

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245 Note: Italicized pages refer to figures or maps adult entertainment, 77, 154, 159–60, 174–80, 182–85, 187, 190–91, 199–202, 204. See also gambling/gaming; tourism African Americans in Las Vegas, 34–35, 82 agriculture in Las Vegas Valley, 19–21, 23, 38 Aguero, Jeremy, 216 Aladdin Hotel and Casino, 136 Alamo, Nevada, 183 Allen, Marshall, 148 American Civil Liberties Union (aclu), 176–77 American Nevada Corporation, 90 Apex, Nevada, 37, 39–40 Arizona, 20, 51, 89 Armijo, Antonio, 17–18 Arts District, downtown Las Vegas, 35, 59, 61, 211, 215 Arts Factory, 211 Atlanta, Georgia, 85 atomic testing, 30–31, 136 attachment to place. See place attachment Basic Magnesium, Inc. (bmi), 26, 31, 90, 93 Basic townsite, 26 Basin and Range physiographic province, 43 Basket Makers, 16–17 Beckwith, Frank, 189, 196 Bellagio Hotel and Casino, 35, 49, 133–34, 175, 210 belonging. See place attachment Beville, John, 57 Big Springs, 18–19, 42. See also springs in Las Vegas Valley Big Spring Range, 39 Biltmore (neighborhood), 27 Binion, Benny, 137 Binion’s Horseshoe Casino, 65, 137, 147, 166 Black Mountain, 26, 88, 97 Black Mountain Industrial Complex, 31. See also Basic Magnesium, Inc. (bmi) Block 16, 23–24, 26 Blue Diamond Road, 108–9, 119–20 Blue Man Group, 149–50 Borchard, Kurt, 69 Boulder Canyon Act, 24 Boulder City, Nevada, 9–10, 24–25, 51 Boulder Dam, 9–10, 24–26, 36, 43, 48, 51–52, 59, 69, 89, 96, 102, 107, 121, 131–33, 216, 219 Boulder Highway, 27 Boulder Station Hotel and Casino, 163 Boulevard Mall, 32 Boyd Gaming, 60–61, 105–6, 210 Boy Scouts of America (bsa), 91, 131–33, 151 Breen, Erin, 126 Bringhurst, New Mexico Territory, 19 Bringhurst, William, 19 Caesars Palace Hotel and Casino, 95, 133, 135–37, 208, 210 Cahlan, Al, 25, 121 Caliente, Nevada, 23 California, 121–23. See also Southern California Callville, Nevada, 21 Carleton, James, 20 Carvalho, S. N., 18 Cashman Field, 35, 41 Catholics, 78, 98, 146, 188–89, 192–98, 200, 202–4, 207 Charleston, Mount, 15–16, 18, 20, 40, 45 Charleston Boulevard, 45 Circus Circus Hotel and Casino, 49, 136, 169, 210 Cirque du Soleil, 1, 137–38, 194, 214 CitiGroup, 50 Citizens Area Transit (cat), 113 I N D E X 246 Index CityCenter Hotel and Casino, 35, 56, 209–10, 216 Civil War, 20 Clark, William Andrews, 21–23 Clark County, Nevada, 9–10, 23, 31, 33, 38, 39, 75, 84, 88, 102, 110, 119, 127–28, 162, 177, 222n9 Clark County Commission, 109–10, 149, 177 Clark County Fire Department, 210 Clark County Government Complex, 212 Clark County School District (ccsd), 33, 53, 75–76, 85–86 Clark’s original Las Vegas townsite, 22–23, 57 Cleveland Clinic, 212–13, 212, 215–16 Club Bingo Casino, 28 Cold Creek, Nevada, 15–16 Cole, Nat King, 34 College of Southern Nevada (csn), 35, 145–47, 150 Colorado River, 17, 24, 38–39, 42–43, 131, 217–18 Colorado River Compact, 42 community, sense of, 74, 79, 100, 147–48, 196, 209, 217–18 “comps,” 135–38 Corn Creek, Nevada, 16 Cornero, Tony, 27–28 Cosmopolitan Hotel and Casino, 35, 56 Coyote Springs, Nevada, 89 Crazy Girls revue, 179–80 Crazy Horse Too, 159 Cuban connection to Las Vegas, 77, 134 Cultural Corridor of Las Vegas, 96, 215 cultural landscape, 4–5, 12–13, 157–58, 185–87 Curtis, Anthony, 147 Dalitz, Moe, 32 Davis, Mike, 103 Davis, Sammy, Jr., 34 Denver, Colorado, 83, 127 Desert Inn Hotel and Casino, 15, 31, 92, 134, 169 Desert Inn Road, 120, 176, 186–87 Desert Range, 39 Discovery Children’s Museum, 212–13 downtown Las Vegas, 2, 27, 35, 136–38, 160, 211–13, 215–16 Dry Lake Range, 39 Dunes Hotel and Casino, 15, 31–32, 92, 137, 210 Echelon Place Hotel and Casino, 91, 105–6, 106, 150, 210, 213 18b arts district. See Arts District, downtown Las Vegas Eldorado Valley, 9, 25 El Rancho Vegas Hotel and Casino, 28, 29, 64, 95 Emergency Arts collective, 211 Encore Hotel and Casino, 35, 210 Excalibur Hotel and Casino, 35 Exploration Park, 154 Exploration Peak, 41, 154–55 Fiero, Bill, 41–43 Fifth Street School, 96 Fink, Jerry, 63–64 First Friday art festival, 59, 211 Fischbacher, Siegfried, 149 Flamingo Hotel and Casino, 28, 29, 32 Flamingo Road, 186–87 flooding in Las Vegas Valley, 45, 46 Floyd Lamb Park, 16 Fontainebleau Hotel and Casino, 106, 210–11 Fordyce...