What New Year’s Eve looked like in Las Vegas in the ’80s — PHOTOS

By Kristen DeSilva reviewjournal.com

9 years ago

A crowd watches New Year‘s Eve fireworks go up in this 1982 photo. (Las Vegas Review-Journal file)

New Year‘s Eve is celebrated on Fremont Street in 1985 photo. (Las Vegas News Bureau)

Revelers celebrate New Year‘s Eve on Fremont Street on Dec. 31, 1985. (W.C. Kodey/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

Luciano Miagro, 5, twirls a sparkler in his backyard in Las Vegas on New Year‘s Eve in 1983. (Las Vegas Review-Journal file)

Fireworks is shown from the Plaza hotel on Fremont Street in this 1986 photo. (Russel Yip/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

Fireworks take off from the Plaza hotel in downtown Las Vegas in this 1983 photo. (Las Vegas News Bureau)

A large crowd is seen celebrating New Year‘s Eve on Fremont Street on Dec. 31, 1985. (W.C. Kodey/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

A crowd watches New Year‘s Eve fireworks go up in this 1982 photo. (Las Vegas Review-Journal file)

To ring in 2016, more than 300,000 people will travel from all over the world to see a fireworks display on the Las Vegas Strip or party past midnight downtown, and in the 1980s, that wasn’t very different.

For multiple years, fireworks were shot from the top of The Plaza hotel-casino, while crowds packed (pre-canopy) Fremont Street.

To ring in the new year on Thursday, the Fremont Street Experience will feature 13 cover bands in “TributePalooza,” with many more in the following days.

Check out the photos above.

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