The El Rancho's 1941 Round-Up Room overlooked the
first casino swimming pool built on the Strip.
The pool and golf-putting-green behind the Thunderbird Hotel.
The Las Vegas Pool at the 1942 Last Frontier Hotel. The octagon
shaped building, in the mid-background, is the original Club 91 building which was
incorporated
into the new hotel. (See photo below).
This building once housed two of the Strip's earliest nightclubs. The Pair-O-Dice opened here in 1938 and later became Club 91 in 1940. In 1942 this building became a central part of the Last Frontier until the
mid-fifties.
Las Frontier pool.
Earlier view of the Last Frontier's first pool directly on the edge
of the Route 91-Los Angeles Highway. This 2 lane road is now the 8 lane Las Vegas Strip. Sunrise Mountain is seen in the distance.
The 1946 Flamingo had the Strip's largest pool area when
it first opened.
Northeast view from the Desert Inn Sky Room Bar.
The 1950 Desert Inn's Sky Room Bar
(in background) overlooked the pool grounds on one side. The western view looked out at the Last Frontier Village, barren
desert land and happy hour sunsets over the La Madre Mountains.
The swimming pool at the Sands Hotel
The Royal Nevada pool is still located at the south end of the Stardust property, remaining one of the last intact pieces of the original Early Vegas.
The seahorse fountain at the Dune's pool.
The pool at the Sahara.
Sahara's lawn surrounded pool area.
The floating craps game in the pool at the Sands 1953,
water-blackjack and pool-edged slot machines.
The high-dive at the Stardust swimming pool.
Bird's-eye-view of the 1956 Riviera pool.
The Dune's swimming pool.
The pool at the 1957 Tropicana.
A 1980 view of the Desert Inn area of the Strip.
Old Las Vegas Strip The first Hotels and
Casinos on the Old
Las Vegas Strip
.
