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While gambling was established prior to being legalized, the Northern Club in 1931 received one of the first 6 gambling licenses issued in Nevada, and the first one for Fremont Street. Glitter Gulch on Fremont Street, was closed to vehicle traffic in September, 1994, to begin construction on the Fremont Street Experience. Film and media history.

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Fremont Street is a street in downtownLas Vegas, Nevada that is the most famous street in the Las Vegas Valley, and Nevada, besides the Las Vegas Strip. Named in honor of explorer John Charles Frémont and located in the heart of the downtown casino corridor, Fremont Street is today, or was, the address for many famous casinos such as Binion's Horseshoe, Eldorado Club, Fremont Hotel and Casino, Golden Gate Hotel and Casino, Golden Nugget, Four Queens, The Mint, and the Pioneer Club.

Prior to the construction of the Fremont Street Experience, the western end of Fremont Street was the representative scene for Las Vegas that was included in virtually every television show and movie that wanted to depict the glittery lights of Las Vegas. The abundance of neon signs, like cowboy Vegas Vic, earned the street the nickname of 'Glitter Gulch'.

Fremont Street is designated between Main Street and Sahara Avenue in a northwest–southeast direction, although auto traffic actually begins at Las Vegas Boulevard. At Sahara, it leaves Las Vegas proper and continues as Boulder Highway. Fremont Street formerly carried several national highways, including U.S. Route 93 (US 93), US 95, and US 466. US 93 and US 95 have been rerouted along Interstate 515, while US 466 has been decommissioned. The section of Fremont Street east of the Fremont East District is currently designated Nevada State Route 582.

Although prostitution has been illegal in Clark County since 1971,^[1] the street has a reputation for prostitution.^[2]

History[edit]

Fremont Street dates back to 1905, when Las Vegas itself was founded. Fremont Street was the first paved street in Las Vegas in 1925^[3] and received the city's first traffic light in 1931.^[4] Fremont Street also carried the shields of U.S. Route 93 (US 93), US 95, and US 466 before the construction of the interstate freeways, including I-15.

While gambling was established prior to being legalized, the Northern Club in 1931 received one of the first 6 gambling licenses issued in Nevada, and the first one for Fremont Street.

Glitter Gulch on Fremont Street, was closed to vehicle traffic in September, 1994, to begin construction on the Fremont Street Experience.

Film and media history[edit]

• The 1964 Elvis Presley film Viva Las Vegas featured nighttime footage of Fremont Street during the opening credits.
• The 1971 James Bond filmDiamonds Are Forever featured a chase scene in which James Bond, running from Las Vegas police, side-rolls a car through an alley exiting onto Fremont Street.
• The 1978-81 ABC television series Vega$, starring Robert Urich, had its episode intro, and many scenes, filmed on Fremont Street.
• The 1987 music video for the song 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For' by U2 was filmed on Fremont Street and featured the band members wandering around, while The Edge played an acoustic guitar.
• In the 1987 anthology film, Aria, one of the segments involves two young lovers driving down Fremont Street before attempting suicide.
• The second season of the NBC show Crime Story (1986-1988) featured Fremont Street in its opening credits, and nearly all the action took place there, as opposed to the Strip.
• 1998's Very Bad Things featured Fremont Street in the movie.
• 1992's Honey, I Blew Up the Kid prominently featured Fremont Street in the movie.
• 1992's Cool World showed all the animation coming out of the Union Plaza Hotel and going down Fremont Street.
• In 1994, Glitter Gulch was featured prominently in the TV miniseries The Stand.
• The 1997 comedy Vegas Vacation includes a few scenes on Fremont Street.
• The Flaming Lips filmed part of their video for 'Do You Realize??' in Fremont Street
• In the 2004 movie Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Steve the Pirate is seen along the Plaza near the Fremont Street Experience.
• In a 2005 release, Panic! at the Disco released a song about Fremont Street called 'Build God, Then We'll Talk'.
• Fremont Street appears in the 2004 video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas as 'The Old Las Venturas Strip'.
• The 2007 film Next has Nicolas Cage's character entering the Golden Nugget from the Fremont Street Experience.
• Ice Cube's music video for 'Chrome and Paint' took place on Fremont Street, with Ice Cube in a lowrider.
• In Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas, Logan Keller, and his teammates Jung, and Michael infiltrate Fremont Street to find a news van, which they find by going through the maintenance tunnels under the Sirocco Casino, the game's version of the Binion Hotel and Gambling Hall.
• Heavily referenced in the Tom Waits song 'Mr. Siegal'.
• Featured at the beginning of the TV series - CSI season 7 finale episode 24.
• Magician & illusionist, Criss Angel, has done many demonstrations there.
• Featured in The Real World: Las Vegas (2011). Several cast members ziplined across the Fremont Street Experience in an episode.
• The area is featured in the 2013 comedy The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, when a street magician (Jim Carrey) performs his magic tricks before two of the main characters, played by Steve Carell and Steve Buscemi.
• Fremont Street is featured intermittently throughout the 2013 comedy Last Vegas, starting with the main quartet (Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline) arriving at Binion's Gambling Hall and Hotel.
• A destroyed Fremont Street is featured in the 2010 post-apocalyptic RPG, Fallout: New Vegas. The area is mapped as 'Freeside' and is a slum.
• The Weeknd filmed a music video for his 2019 songs 'Heartless' and 'Blinding Lights' on Fremont Street.^[5][6]

Fremont East[edit]

In 2002 the city of Las Vegas created the Fremont East Entertainment District (FEED), an entertainment district in the heart of downtown Las Vegas.^[7] In 2004 the city announced plans to redevelop a three block section of Fremont Street east of the Fremont Street Experience as an arts and entertainment area within FEED. The $5.5 million streetscape improvement project was a public private partnership with 50% paid by landlords via new businesses and 50% paid with tax dollars as part of a plans to revitalize Downtown Las Vegas.^[8] The area was redesigned to increase the draw to downtown, with a compact entertainment area of bars and clubs.^[9][10]

The three-block renovation included pedestrian-friendly street redesign, landscaping, and retro-looking new neon signage. It also included 4 vintage Vegas neon signs in the street median, built new but reminiscent of classic Las Vegas signs. Fremont East street improvements opened officially in the summer of 2007.^[7]

Currently, the Fremont East Entertainment District comprises a total of six blocks. The boundaries are from Las Vegas Boulevard East to 8th Street, and then from Ogden Street South to Carson.^[7] The historic El Cortez hotel and casino are within the district as well as the staple cocktail bar Downtown Cocktail Room . Beyond this district on Fremont businesses include The Writer's Block and the bulk of Tony Hsieh's Downtown Project.

References[edit]

1. ^'NRS 244.345 Dancing halls, escort services, entertainment by referral services and gambling games or devices; limitation on licensing of houses of prostitution'. Nevada Revised Statutes. Retrieved 2008-07-07.
2. ^Longobardy, Joshua (27 July 2006). 'The Politics of a Prostitution Sting - Las Vegas Weekly'. lasvegasweekly.com. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
3. ^'Fremont Street History'. Retrieved 9 December 2008.
4. ^'Fremont Street Experience Las Vegas'. ExploringLasVegas.com. Retrieved 2010-04-24.
5. ^Miller, Cody (November 27, 2019). 'The Weeknd seen running through downtown Las Vegas for new music video'. KSNV. Retrieved December 13, 2019.
6. ^'The Weeknd - Listening Experience'. Universal Digital. Archived from the original on 2019-12-06. Retrieved December 5, 2019.
7. ^ ^abcFremonteast.com: Fremont East Entertainment District (FEED) . accessed 5.5.2015
8. ^'New district is all about old Las Vegas'. Las Vegas Sun. 2007-01-18. Retrieved 2007-08-27.
9. ^'PHOTOS: Fremont East Gets Glamour Treatment'. Las Vegas Review-Journal. 2007-08-25. Retrieved 2007-08-27.
10. ^'Third Street has potential to be night life magnet'. Las Vegas Review-Journal. 2004-09-18. Retrieved 2007-08-27.

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Coordinates: 36°09′35″N115°07′07″W / 36.15972°N 115.11861°W

Pioneer Club Las Vegas was a casino that opened in 1942 and was located in Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada, at 25 East Fremont Street. It ceased operating as a casino in 1995, the same year the Fremont Street Experience was completed.

History[edit]

The Pioneer Club occupied a building that was built in 1918^{[citation needed]} and originally served as a restaurant^{[citation needed]}. The Pioneer Club and Cocktail lounge opened in April 1942 on the corner of 1st Street and Fremont Street.

In 1965, the Pioneer Club bought The Elwell Hotel located at 200 South First St. directly behind the Pioneer Club and renamed it the Pioneer Club Hotel. The Hotel was sold in 1969 and became the Golden Hotel. In 1983 The Pioneer Club bought Club Bingo located to the west of it and enlarged its Casino area. From 1956 to 1967 it was called the New Pioneer Club. In 1984 The Golden Nugget bought the hotel and demolished it, building a parking garage for its Casino and Hotel in its place.^[1]

For many years, The Pioneer Club was one of downtown's leading casinos.^[2]

Margaret Elardi who also owned the Frontier Hotel on The Strip and later the Pioneer Hotel & Gambling Hall casino in Laughlin, owned the club for a while, then Gold Strike Resorts. In 1992 new owners purchased the Pioneer Club but were unable to compete with the larger casinos on Fremont Street both at the beginning and at the end of the Fremont Street Experience or with the large new megaresorts on The Strip.^[2] The owners closed the venerable casino in 1995 and it remained vacant until 1998 when Schiff Enterprises bought the Pioneer Club and opened a souvenir store inside. The vintage Pioneer Club signs and Vegas Vic sign still exists on the exterior of the building.

Vegas Vic[edit]

Although the Pioneer Club no longer operates as a casino, Vegas Vic (The 40 ft^[3]neon cowboy) lives on. In 1947 Las Vegas chamber of Commerce hired a West-Marquis firm which invented the Fremont Street Cowboy Vegas Vic and his friendly 'Howdy Podner' greeting.^[4]

The Young Electric Sign Company was commissioned to build the neon version of the sign by the owners of the Pioneer Club. They then commissioned Pat Denner who modeled it after the image used by the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce^[5] in 1947 consisting of a cowboy in blue jeans with a yellow-checked shirt and red bandanna. Vegas Vic was then erected on the exterior of the building in 1951 changing the exterior of The Pioneer club forever.^[2]

Vegas Vic and the exterior of the Pioneer Club are prominently featured in shots from the 1971 James Bond film, 'Diamonds Are Forever'.

Gallery[edit]

• The Pioneer Club 1940s

• The Pioneer Club 1950s

• The Pioneer Club 1973

• Vegas Vic closeup, post 1998 restoration

Notes[edit]

Oldest Casino On Fremont Street

1. ^'Elwell Hotel History'. lasvegasmikey.com. Retrieved 2008-11-20.
2. ^ ^abc'Pioneer Club History'. onlinenevada.org. Retrieved 2008-11-20.
3. ^'Vegas Vic Lives!'. Las Vegas Sun. 2000-06-25. Retrieved 2008-11-18.
4. ^Eugene P. Moehring, Michael S. Green (2005). Las Vegas - A Centennial History. University of Nevada Press. ISBN9780874176155. Retrieved 2008-11-20.
5. ^Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce

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