6/30/14 - Vegas Vic, the neon cowboy on Fremont St is the world's largest mechanical neon sign.  however, it hasn't worked since 2006.

6/30/14 - Vegas Vic, the neon cowboy on Fremont St is the world's largest mechanical neon sign.  however, it hasn't worked since 2006.

6/23/14 - June 28th 1881, Russell, Morgan & Co (which later becomes the US Playing Card Co) prints its first deck of cards.  Soon the company is manufacturing 1.600 packs per day.

6/23/14 - June 28th 1881, Russell, Morgan & Co (which later becomes the US Playing Card Co) prints its first deck of cards.  Soon the company is manufacturing 1.600 packs per day.

6/16/14 - The New Frontier, at one point, had a glass-enclosed chamber so guests could enjoy cocktails while watching swimmers underwater.

6/9//13 - Terribles was called the Continental when it opening in 1975.  The Herbst Family owned a slot route as well as a bunch of convenience stores locally called Terrible Herbst.  Eventually they purchased the Continental out of bankruptcy and reopened it in Dec 2000 and thus named it Terribles. (Access Vegas)

5/26/13 - It would take close to 300 years for someone to spend one night in every hotel room in Vegas. (@POVblog)

5/5/13 - When Howard Hughes finished his land-buying spree in Nevada in the 1960’s, his holdings in the state were worth an estimated $300 million.  He owned nearly every vacant lot on the Las Vegas Strip. (Strictly Slots)

4/28/13 - When Bruno Mars was 6 years old, he had a small cameo as an Elvis impersonator in the movie “Honeymoon in Vegas” with Nick Cage. (YouTube) thank you @laranews for sharing that and clarifying that Bruno Mars if Filipino

4/21/13 - April 23^rd, 1956 – Elvis Presley performs in Las Vegas for the First time at the New Frontier hotel.  He received a luck-warm response from Vegas older audiences who aren’t quite ready for the hip swiveling in his two-week engagement.

• This experience is largely credited as virtually the only misstep Elvis & company made in his meteoric rise in 1956 (@360Vegas Vintage research)

4/14/13 - Kevin Burke, star of “Defending the Caveman” at Harrah’s, set a Guinness World Record by performing 60 shows in 50 days between Feb 4^th – March 25, 2013 (@robin_leach)

4/7/13 - Since the 1^st 360 Vegas Podcast almost 2 years ago, last week, March 31^st was the first week we didn’t put any content out.  Not because we didn’t have any but because we lost our boy, our son, our baby and our dog Loki, and did so to honor his memory.

3/24/13 - The Las Vegas Strip is the brightest place on earth when looked at from space (@vegas_only)

3/10/13 - The actual Caesars Palace suite used in “The Hangover” movie does not exist, but you can find the fictitious room number 2425 in the hotel’s Augustus Tower, where all the movie’s elevator and hallway scenes were shot. (strictly slots)

3/3/13 - The Union Plaza opened on July 2^nd 1971 as the world’s largest hotel casino at that time (@themobmuseum)

2/24/13 - Las Vegas set a record for attendance in 2012 with 39.7 million visitors, 500,000 more than the previous record set in 2007 (Vegas Inc.)

2/3/13 - Each King in a deck of cards represents a historical figure (@360anteup)

·       King of Hearts – Charlemagne

·       King of Diamonds – Julius Caesars

·       King of Spades – King David

·       King of Clubs – Alexander the Great

1/27/13 - If you add up the numbers totals (1-36) on a roulette wheel, you’ll come up with a demonic total of 666 (strictly slots)

1/20/13 - There is approx. 15,000 miles of neon tubing from the strip and Fremont St. (only_vegas)

1/13/13 - 107 years ago, on Jan 13^th, 1906, the Nevada Hotel opened in downtown Las Vegas on Fremont St.  It later changes it’s name and function to a hotel casino called the Golden Gate which still operates today. (Strictly slots)