Landmark sights in Las Vegas
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Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas Sign
Straddling Las Vegas Blvd, south of the Strip proper, is the city’s most iconic sign, which announces in vintage style, ‘Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas Nevada.’ Of course, when Betty Willis designed it in the late 1950s, it wasn’t retro – it was cutting-edge Googie style, with an atomic-modern starburst at the top and, on the back, a friendly reminder to ‘Drive Carefully’ and ‘Come Back Soon.’ The sign was placed on the highway to LA. The Strip still hasn’t managed to spread its fingers quite this far south yet. Now a tourist attraction in its own right, the famous sign had fallen into disrepair by the ’70s. The city’s centennial in 2005 was a rare chance for Las Vegans to…
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