Image / Thunderbird Hotel, Las Vegas Boulevard, looking east

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Title: Thunderbird Hotel, Las Vegas Boulevard, looking east
Alternative Title: Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Photo Collection
Creator: Kelly, Howard D
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1959
Publication Information: Kelly-Holiday
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
The Thunderbird Hotel existed from 1948 to 1976, then was The Silverbird from 1977 to 1981. For a little over ten years, until it was demolished in 1992, the facility was known as The El Rancho Hotel and Casino.
Aerial view of the Thunderbird Hotel, located along Las Vegas Boulevard South; view is looking east. Las Vegas Boulevard is at bottom left corner, and the Algiers Hotel peeks from bottom right corner. Photograph was taken for Pioneer Flintkote. Photograph dated February 19, 1959.
Type: Image
Format: 1 negative :safety ;11 x 14 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier: 00096268
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Collection
KHAF 501-15
CARL0005089366
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/6719
Subject: Thunderbird Hotel (Las Vegas, Nev.)
Algiers Hotel and Casino (Las Vegas, Nev.)
Casinos--Nevada--Las Vegas
Streets--Nevada--Las Vegas
Lost architecture--Nevada--Las Vegas
Hotels--Nevada--Las Vegas
Las Vegas (Nev.)--Aerial views
Strip (Las Vegas, Nev.)
Las Vegas (Nev.)
Aerial photographs
Time Period: 1951-1960

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