Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022 | 6:25 p.m.
Months of celebration around the 75th anniversary of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority’s Archive Collection — which boasts millions of iconic images of early Las Vegas — will soon come to a close at the Fremont Street Experience, where the public can view photos from the collection as they are exhibited on the Viva Vision digital display.
A themed show with images from the Archive Collection — one of the largest collections of Southern Nevada imagery in the world — will debut Wednesday on Viva Vision’s more than 1,300-by-90 foot digital canopy at the Fremont Street Experience, according to an LVCVA release.
The show will air three times an hour for the entire day, and even includes the Archive Collection’s first image — a photo of downtown Las Vegas during the city’s historic Helldorado Days event in 1947.
The Archive Collection holds more than 7 million images, 11,000 pieces of film and video and 1,300-linear-feet of manuscripts and artifacts, the LVCVA said. Some of its iconic photos have already been uploaded over the course of the year to a website created for the collection’s 75th anniversary.
“The Fremont Street Experience show follows a proclamation given by the City of Las Vegas in early December commemorating the 75th anniversary and will close a yearlong celebration of the historical photos that have played an integral role in promoting tourism to Las Vegas since 1947,” the release said.
