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1905-2005: Las Vegas Centennial

Las Vegas is celebrating 100 years with festivities occuring thoughout 2005 with the largest concentration of events will take place between May - June. Visit the Las Vegas Centennial at www.lasvegas2005.org for more information about Helldorado Days, concerts, exhibits and other events.

Latest information about the Centennial and related articles:

• Centennial News
• Young Las Vegas, 1905-1931
• Old Spanish Trail Ride
• Helldorado Days Slideshow

Centennial News

Images From History

They are images many of us would swear we've known our whole lives, snapshots in time that appear remarkably fresh, but at the same time are as familiar as old friends. The R-J is making some of those photos available to you.

Purchase historic images and pages

Countdown to the Centennial in images The Review-Journal printed classic photos as a countdown to the New Year of 2005. The Las Vegas News Bureau selected 100 photos, dating back to 1949.
Here are those photos

Centennial Special Section -- May 12, 2005
• In search of the real pioneer
• The Las Vegas you never knew
• Author saw value of Nevada"s past
• Wagon freight business made anything else look easy
• A gambler"s boy grows up
• Shooting for life in Las Vegas
• Brotherly bonds, built in hard times, hold firm
• Wild ride on Buck began love affair with city
• Grad saw school evolve
• Fame has faded, but love lasts
• Recalling Old Vegas glamour
• Hero officer died "revolver smoking"

Jul 03: PHOTOS: Hot Peppers
Jun 21: RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS: Concert location changes
Jun 15: Committee found out Giant cake no freebie days before May event
Jun 12: LAS VEGAS HISTORY: Fort is where it really began
Jun 12: QUOTES
Jun 10: 100 couples say 'I do' to centennial celebration event
May 28: Railroad cottage springs to life
May 22: CENTENNIAL EVENTS
May 22: PHOTO: Pair of Birthdays
May 17: PHOTO: This Guy Takes The Cake
May 17: CHILI PEPPERS: Fan fury at ticket dispersal
May 16: Centennial celebration takes the cake
May 15: Parade recalls 'good old times'
May 15: CENTENNIAL EVENTS
May 14: Red Hot Chili Pepper fans get second chance
May 13: Vegas at 100
May 13: PHOTO: The Usual Suspect
May 13: JOHN L. SMITH: Centennial spurs national exposure, and we're not just blowing smoke
May 13: Helldorado Days Parade returns for centennial
May 12: Oscar's image to be paraded
May 11: Founding Families
May 10: SLICE OF HISTORY: Firmly Planted Roots
May 09: Raising Helldorado
May 08: PHOTOS: Airborne Anniversary
May 01:CENTENNIAL EVENTS
Apr 30: Cinco de Mayo merriment tied to centennial celebration
Apr 30: Centennial committee seeking descendants
Apr 29: Youth group to perform local centennial musical
Apr 28: Centennial exhibits open at UNLV gallery, museum
Apr 22: Centennial murals displayed at City Hall
Apr 22: LAS VEGAS CENTENNIAL: Ticket trouble clouds concert
Apr 12: LAS VEGAS CENTENNIAL: Chili Peppers to give free show

Las Vegas Review-Journal Centennial
Apr 03: CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION: A Century of Journalism
Apr 03: SHERMAN FREDERICK: Looking ahead
Apr 03: REVIEW-JOURNAL ALUMS WHO MADE IT BIG
Apr 03: News Bureau chief got start hawking paper on street as boy
Apr 03: HISTORIC HEADLINES
Apr 03: Hot type and how they did it

Mar 31: PHOTO: Time-Honored Contest
Feb 25: Master Singers to perform Duke Ellington's 'Sacred Concert'
Feb 14: SHOOTING STARS: PBS' 'American Experience' trains its cameras on Las Vegas
Jan 30: NEVADAN AT WORK: Stacy Allsbrook; Executive director, Las Vegas Centennial Celebration
Jan 14: SPOTLIGHT: Centennial art series begins today
Jan 02: Longtime Las Vegans recall a city that scarcely resembles the one we know today

Young Las Vegas, 1905-1931

Pre-Order Special

Young Las Vegas, 1905-1931:
Before the Future Found Us

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for the special pre-order price of $24.95

• Chapter 12: Hoover Dam opened the floodgates of growth, prosperity in Las Vegas Valley
• Chapter 11: City always worked to attract tourists
• Chapter 10: City boasted active night life from an early age
• Chapter Nine: People-watching provided plenty of entertainment for early Las Vegans
• Chapter Eight: Health care in early days of city hampered by heat, unsanitary conditions
• Chapter Seven: Burgeoning enrollment, shortage of money always problems for Las Vegas schools
• Chapter Six: Growing community requires city services, active civic organizations
• Chapter Five: Adapting to harsh desert climate required creativity on the part of early residents
• Chapter Four: Enterprising Las Vegans could succeed in business in growing town
• Chapter Three: Miners and ranchers set the stage for growth of Las Vegas
• Chapter Two: Railroad played major role in daily life of residents in company town
• Chapter One: Land buyers braved brutal conditions to give railroad town its start

Three-day ride across the Old Spanish Trail

The R-J sponsored a trail ride across the Old Spanish Trail, the all-weather route to Southern California for thousands of traders, gold-miners, Mormons and thieves during the 1800s, to commemmorate the paper's 100th birthday. That ride begins on April 7 at China Ranch, Calif. and ends April 9, at Bonnie Springs.

Apr 10: Trail riders wend way to Old West discoveries, new friendships
Apr 09: Halfway home, and sorely missing it
Apr 08: Tackling The Trail
Apr 07: Trail riders follow pioneers' footsteps

Limited Edition Print Now Available

"Reflections of the Future"

by Mike Miller
Big Springs at The Meadows. This natural spring served local Paiute tribes for hundreds of years, became a watering hole for Spanish Trail pathfinders and travellers, was diverted for irrigation by the first farmers and settlers and finally became a much needed commodity for the railroad in 1905. Early Las Vegans could not have imagined the secrets it held for the future.

$24 includes tax and shipping

This special limited edition of 500 is signed and numbered by the artist. Finished size is 22 x 28.
All proceeds benefit Newspapers In Education.

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