Young Las Vegas: 1905-1931: Before the Future Found Us

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The Las Vegas we know used to be conceived – if anybody in reality conceived it – in 1931, when Nevada liberalized its divorce and gambling laws, which would in the end become the city into The us’s playground for grown-ups. It used to be also the year an unprecedented engineering project started, that would turn the Colorado River from a wild killer stream to a wild reservoir that waters not only California vegetables but also sprawling Las Vegas suburbs. From 1905 to 1931, Las Vegas used to be still a tiny oasis in a big, dangerous desert. Its isolated people made their own swamp coolers, their own entertainment and infrequently their own whiskey. The creator, Joan Burkhardt Whitely, enlisted older Las Vegans to lend a hand capture the memories of a Mojave Mayberry where neighbors took care of one another, not merely because no one else would, but because it used to be their hometown, and they cared.

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