Las Vegas, 1993 (part 2: nighttime)

Part 2 of my January 1993 trip to Vegas, my first. I was there over Super Bowl weekend. Part 1 shows my ride up the Strip to downtown and back, during the daytime; this is the nighttime stuff. I arrived the day after the Dunes casino closed, spent one night at the new Excalibur, then spent one day driving out to the Grand Canyon (seeing the Hoover Dam and getting in after sunset) and one day at the Canyon itself, leaving after dark for the drive back to Vegas where I checked in to the Lady Luck downtown (part of a package) on Friday night for 3 nights. I had all day Saturday and most of Sunday to spend, then watched the Super Bowl in a giant event room at the Sahara, flying home on Monday.

Unfortunately the video isn't that great, this is an 8mm video tape converted to VHS converted to digital. I did some screen captures of the video, and below you can see them matched up with what it looks like in 2018 through the magic of Google Maps.

Las Vegas, 1993 (part 1: daytime)

In late 1992, I booked a trip to Las Vegas for the upcoming 1993 Super Bowl weekend because I had a free ticket on Continental that I had to use by the end of February, and I had never been to Vegas before. I had my travel agent book me a package deal for flight and hotel, and that's how I ended up at the Lady Luck downtown that weekend. I had borrowed a friend's VCR camera and filmed a ride up the Las Vegas Strip into downtown, then recently transferred it to digital (though unfortunately still at bad VHS quality). I did some screen captures of the video, and below you can see them matched up with what it looks like in 2018 through the magic of Google Maps.