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This “Save-Rite” drug store, at 215 Fremont, opened on November 18, 1946. Did the photographer take this photograph because the drug store was the one that ordered the post cards, or was it just a coincidence? The “Save-Rite” building and the drug store’s two large signs are clearly the dominant visible “shop” element on the post card. The Photographer is on the right/north side of Fremont with the camera pointed southwest. The fact that the publishers of this set of post cards selected the “Save-Rite” Drug store to highlight on the post card of “new” shops may provide a clue as to who published the post cards. What are the “new shops” referred to in the caption? On the left (south) side are two large signs of the “Save-Right Drug Stores” that are visible.

Post card 206 is captioned “New Shops along the Main Street – Las Vegas Nev.-” This is a view looking west on Fremont Street, from between Second and Third Streets.

On post card 212 of the “Eldorado Club” the caption incorrectly spells the name “El Dorado.”.

The caption on card 210 states the “Little Church of the West” located on the “grounds” of the El Rancho Vegas when in fact it was built and opened on the grounds of the Last Frontier Hotel in 1943.

The caption writer apparently saw the date 1905 the Nugget sign and took it as fact that that was the actual date the gambling club opened.

Card 196 states in the caption that the Golden Nugget is “One of the Oldest Gambling Casinos in Las Vegas” when in fact it was one of the newest gambling clubs.

It was connected at the west end to Main Street which ran north and south. The word “Fremont” is not in the captions, instead, the street is referred to as “the Main street.” Fremont Street, running east and west, was the main (lower case “m” business street in Las Vegas in the 1940’s.

While there are several post cards of Fremont Street in the series.

Mistakes and other questions indicate the post cards were not produced either by a Las Vegas company or by somebody who didn’t pay attention.

#Pair o dice club vegas series

Did the “PV” company produce the “X” series post cards? (and why use an “x” in front of the number on the post card? )ĭoes PV mean postcard view? Was there a postcard company in the late 1940’s, with the name Post Card Views? The logo is an upper-case PV, with either a lower-case e, or c, with an o as part of the top part of the c, meaning co. The company’s logo is found following the “X” and the number of the card. The photographer nor the company that printed the post cards or the publisher/distributor have been identified. The “X” post cards all use the “Boulder Dam” as the name was being changed by Congress.

Truman signed a Congressionally approved Resolution changing the name of the dam changed back to Hoover. Roosevelt, the name was changed back to Boulder Dam and was the name used when F.D.R. In 1933, during the administration of President F.D. In 1931 it was changed from Boulder Dam to Hoover Dam. The dam first envisaged to be built in Boulder Canyon was actually built in Black Canyon. The photographs show wide, day and night, views of streets and Las Vegas resorts, both downtown and on the Strip.īased on the images and captions the post cards the photographs used in the series were taken sometime between the summer of 1947 and the late spring of 1948.īased on the images, captions, and post marks the post cards went on sale no later than the late summer early fall of 1948.įrom its beginning as the Boulder Canyon Dam Project, the name of the dam changed several times. (Several errors, however, are found in the post card’s captions.) The images and the printing of the post cards were clearly done by professionals. A series of more than twenty ‘real photo’ post cards of Las Vegas and Boulder Dam were produced by an unknown company in the late 1940’s.