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27 Jul DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: FREMONT STREET

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SIX in TIME from FREMONT STREET in FABULOUS LAS VEGAS!

FREMONT STREET, 1931.

Nevada ended its frontier ways in 1909 when it made gambling illegal to project a sense of civilized modernity to the rest of the nation. Just 22 years later, it voted gambling back as an economic panacea to fight the Great Depression. The postcard view of Fremont Street west from 1st Street to the Union Pacific Railroad Station shows a western town before the influence of casino gambling where the downtown Main street is directly tied to the railroad responsible for laying the city out in 1905.