Los Vegas Container Park
My favorite attraction in Los Vegas after the Polaroid Museum was old Los Vegas, or to be exact was the Container Park. The main strip in Los Vegas had almost no appeal to me but as we rode the bus north I started seeing graffiti and immediately started feeling more at ease.
Some authenticity at last.
At any rate, I don't know this for fact but heard it from locals, Tony Hsieh the CEO of zappos has bought up huge tracks of old downtown Vegas and has been sprucing it up. There is some cool stuff happening there. But like all change, not everyone is happy. Businesses that have been there forever, like tattoo shops have been banished and not surprisingly aren't happy with the changes. Reminds me of the hand wringing when NYC cleaned up Times Square.
But the Container Park is pretty amazing, with the exact same methodology of parks in Cincinnati. family friendly with special events happening all day long for entertainment.
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Wow this is really cool, and something similar with old containers could work well here in Cincinnati.
ReplyDeleteI was trying to imagine the spot for one, the Northside or Walnut Hills?
DeleteChrist, dude! LAS Vegas. LOS Angeles.
ReplyDeleteNone of this existed when we visited 3 years ago. We stayed downtown because that seemed way more interesting than the strip [and it was]. I picked the California Hotel because the name was funny -- turned out to be a hotbed for elderly Hawaiian tourists. The hotel even has a Hawaiian snack shop and the only mainland location of a Hawaiian chain of ice cream parlors. It was so weird, but Michael used to live in Honolulu, so was perfect.
Anyway, check out this summary of the Downtown Project situation, with links to more articles.
LMAO!! I walked around all week calling it LOS vegas trying to be funny and it stuck like that. :-D
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