In the 1990s, businesses, hotels, and casinos started looking for alternate ways of getting visitors to open their wallets, so they tried a different approach and promoted Las Vegas as a family vacation destination. The Excalibur Hotel, MGM Grand Adventures Park, and Casinos opened on the Las Vegas Strip started the Sin City’s family-friendly era. The 1990s was the era of mega-hotels and theme parks. In 1993, a unique pink-domed 5-acre indoor amusement park, Grand Slam Canyon, became part of the Circus Circus hotel. Las Vegas elected its first female mayor, Jan Laverty Jones. The Neon Museum was founded in 1996 that features signs from old casinos and other businesses displayed outdoors on 2.62 acres.
Several movies were also made that kept the freedom and pop culture of the city alive such as ‘Indecent Proposal (1993)’, ‘Leaving Las Vegas (1995)’ and ‘Showgirls (1995)’. Here below are some photos that will take you back to the 1990s Las Vegas.
Check out some other stunning photos of Las Vegas from the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
That makes the 90s look so dated. I wish I had been in Vegas before it became so… whatever it is these days. That way-back feel to it seems comforting
The MGM Lion had to be removed because the Asian tourists believed walking into a lion’s mouth would bring them bad luck
I didn’t realize Mandalay Bay was so old.
It’s not. That was 1997 not ’77
When I was a kid, I loved staying at the Imperial Palace. It flooded then, and it floods now!
These are stunning. Takes me back. thanks.
I grew up here. Fremont Street experience was such a big disappointment for a child. My family used to drive to the strip and down Fremont street to see all the glittering mascots. Now it’s just a ceiling showing explosions while Imagine Dragons blasts out.