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Website. conexpoconagg.com. Conexpo-Con/Agg is North America’s largest construction trade show representing asphalt, aggregates, concrete, earthmoving, lifting, mining, utilities and more. Conexpo-Con/Agg is a result of the merger of Conexpo and Con/Agg in 1996. [1] It is held at the Las Vegas Convention Center. [2][3]
April 8, 1981 [ 4 ] Designated NHL. August 20, 1985 [ 5 ] Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. Constructed between 1931 and 1936, during the Great Depression, it was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The 2008 SEMA Show at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The SEMA acronym originally stood for Speed Equipment Manufacturing Association. [5] In 1970, government regulations became an issue and the name was changed to Specialty Equipment Market Association to improve the overall image of the association.
Jon Jerde. The Fremont Street Experience (FSE) is a pedestrian mall and attraction in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada. The FSE occupies the westernmost five blocks of Fremont Street, including the area known for years as " Glitter Gulch ", and portions of some other adjacent streets. The central attraction is a barrel vault canopy, 90 ft (27 m) high ...
The Las Vegas Convention Center (commonly referred to as LVCC) is a convention center in Winchester, Nevada. It is owned and operated by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. As one of the largest convention centers in the world, it has 2,500,000 sq ft (230,000 m 2) of exhibit space and hosts shows with an estimated 200,000 ...
Las Vegas in the Rearview Mirror: The City in Theory, Photography, and Film, Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2013), ISBN 978-1-60606-137-4; Thompson, Hunter S. Fear and loathing in Las Vegas: A savage journey to the heart of the American dream (Vintage, 1998) online. Venturi, Robert.
Fremont Street dates back to 1905, when Las Vegas itself was founded. Fremont Street was the first paved street in Las Vegas in 1925 [3] and received the city's first traffic light in 1931. [4] Fremont Street also carried the shields of U.S. Route 93 (US 93), US 95, and US 466 before the construction of the interstate freeways, including I-15.
The Las Vegas Valley is a major metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada, and the second largest in the Southwestern United States. The state's largest urban agglomeration, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Statistical Area is coextensive since 2003 with Clark County, Nevada. [2] The Valley is largely defined by the Las Vegas ...