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Title
New Frontier Hotel, Las Vegas Boulevard, looking south
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 New Frontier was the second resort that opened on the Las Vegas Strip on October 30, 1942. In the 1950s and early 1960s the New Frontier went through a succession of owners and operators. In 1967 the resort was purchased for $14 million by businessman Howard Hughes, who shortened the name to The Frontier; in 1988 Margaret Elardi bought the hotel from the late Howard Hughes company; in 1998 developer Phil Ruffin bought the resort from Elardi and her two sons, at which point he changed the name back to The New Frontier; he, in turn, sold it to El Ad Properties. After 65 years of continuous operation, The New Frontier permanently shut its doors on July 16, 2007 although the lights from its sign were still lit at night up to its demolition, which occurred on November 13, 2007.
Aerial view of the New Frontier Hotel, located at 3120 Las Vegas Boulevard South (vertically along the right), just south of Desert Inn Road (slightly diagonally from top right to upper left); view is looking south. 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
00096288
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Collection
KHAF 501-35
CARL0005089386
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/6741
Subject
New Frontier Hotel and Casino (Las Vegas, Nev.)
Casinos--Nevada--Las Vegas
Streets--Nevada--Las Vegas
Hotels--Nevada--Las Vegas
Lost architecture--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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