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The Las Vegas Walk of Stars is a walk of fame along the Las Vegas Strip, located in the unincorporated towns of Paradise and Winchester, Nevada. It was established to honor prominent Las Vegas figures, including entertainers. Wayne Newton was the first to receive a star on the Walk of Stars, in a ceremony taking place on October 26, 2004.
The Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad was the first to lay track in the Las Vegas Valley. By 1905 the Los Angeles and Salt Lake had connected Salt Lake City to Southern California through Las Vegas. The railroad provided freight and passenger service to Las Vegas until it was acquired by the Union Pacific Railroad in 1921. [6]
The F-104 was damaged in the landing attempt at Delamar when the landing gear began to retract. Armstrong got the plane back in the air and diverted to Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas. During Flight 1-63-104 on May 6, 1966, an X-15 experienced an engine failure and landed at Delamar Dry Lake. [4] [5]
The Loop connects to the Las Vegas Monorail at the Boingo Station, LV Monorail station at the corner of Paradise Road and East Desert Inn Road at an Island above East Desert Inn Road. Buses that are near the Loop and Las Vegas Convention Center are the: RTC 108, [26] RTC 119 [27] and Las Vegas Deuce. [28] [29]
The Mandalay Bay Tram is a Cable Liner Shuttle installation consisting of an elevated 2,749-foot-long (838 m) guideway with two completely independent shuttle systems running side-by-side. [4] The guideway alignment passes above street level at a height of between 16 and 26 ft (4.9 and 7.9 m). [ 4 ]
The team was originally known as the Las Vegas Stars (1983–2000) and later the Las Vegas 51s (2001–2018). The Las Vegas Ballpark opened in Summerlin in 2019, as a new venue for the Aviators, who previously played at Cashman Field. [230] The Athletics, a Major League Baseball team, confirmed plans in 2023 to relocate from Oakland.
The first flights from Las Vegas to Area 51 were performed in 1972 by a Douglas DC-6 operated by EG&G. A second DC-6 was added in 1976, and this type remained in use until 1981. [ 6 ] Boeing 737-200s were gradually added to the Janet fleet in that same decade, and were later supplemented by Air Force T-43s de-modified to conventional transport ...
In 1933, the Tule Springs Expedition, led by Fenley Hunter, was the first major effort to explore the archaeological importance of the area surrounding Tule Springs. Hunter and his team identified an unworked obsidian flake in apparent association with extinct Pleistocene faunal remains at Tule Springs [ 6 ]