13170_11719_vegas_fifties
1950s, 1960s
Street scenes of Las Vegas. Opens with daytime scene of large cowboy sign with moving arms in foreground and Lucky Strike Club and Bingo signs in the background. Exterior shot excluding sidewalk looking into a casino or gambling center at the slot machines. Sign with splash design details “Only 2 bars to win Jack Pot”. Woman pulls on a lever inside. Exterior shot with street shown of a building with “GATE” in large, lit up letters above windows of first floor. Some sort of vehicle/cart with the words “Sky-Lite” on the side. A car drives by. Cuts to an axial angle of the building and we see that the large, lit up sign reads “GOLDEN GATE” as a car pulls into the intersection the building is on the corner of. Same camera placement but splices of different cars going in and out of that intersection. Exterior shot of the Lucky Strike Club next door to the Nevada Club (in the shot). Cuts to exterior of the Lucky Strike Club again but a bit later into the evening, a woman crosses the street as cars go by. Then to a wider shot of the same exterior with the same woman crossing the street in the same exact manner towards the camera, she laughs as she walks off screen. A medium shot of the Lucky Strike Club’s entrance sign which reads “BINGO BINGO” above it as well as a mechanical sculpture of a man holding a pan of gold that glitters in the dark as his hands move it.Cuts to exterior shot of a casino with large, lit up lights that read “GAMBLING”, men stand outside on the sidewalk under the sign. Cuts to an exterior shot of a corner with signs lining up the street perpendicular to the camera. The building parallel to the screen with a sign reading “California Club” with a neon bear whose head moves up and down above it. Cuts to a wider shot of the segment of the street and the California Club is an establishment or two down from the Lucky Strike Club shown in more detail earlier. Then the “Club Savoy” with its lights not lit, and the “...LDER CLUB” underneath which reads “Enjoy the Old West”. Night time shot of the Lucky Strike Club. Cuts to a shot facing down the street of the same street, Lucky Strike Club on the left, again the cowboy sign is in the distance. Close up of the Golden Nugget Gambling Hall’s sign, its letters lighting up one by one in procession.