I fell in love with Las Vegas the first time I visited. However, I wasn’t in love with Las Vegas for a few years. Once I was in love with Las Vegas, I had to learn everything about it the city. I knew enough history from TV that it wasn’t much of a concern. What I was curious about in Las Vegas was the future. I wanted to know what I would experience the next time I visited Las Vegas and the time after that.
I fell in love with Las Vegas in the early 2000’s. One of my favorite visits to Las Vegas was when Aladdin was being renovated to become Planet Hollywood around 1999-2000. Shortly after Planet Hollywood opened there was a slew of casino openings over the next 10 years that stoked my interest. Check out which casinos opened when I figrst fell in love with Las Vegas:
2001: Palms
2005: Wynn
2007: Palazzo
2008: Encore
2009: CityCenter and Aria
2010: The Cosmopolitan
My interest in Las Vegas was busting at the seams with all of this construction. This happened while blogs and websites for just about every topic started to pop up online. The blogs and websites that covered Las Vegas ranged from a guy on the street to news that typically wouldn’t reach the east coast media. I enjoyed them all differently. There was one website and blog about Las Vegas that really peaked my interest.
Vegas Today and Tomorrow was written by an architecture enthusiast with an interest in Las Vegas. He kept track of every building being conceived or constructed. I wanted to know everything that the casinos above would have when they opened and this website had everything I could imagine.
Vegas Today and Tomorrow had casino information that they even published a map of which casinos served Coke products and which served Pepsi products. I’m not a cola drinker, but that’s information that couldn’t be found just anywhere. You can still see the map here.
Even though Vegas Today And Tomorrow hasn’t been updated in years, it’s still one of the best Las Vegas websites because of the content gathered while it was active. Today, Vegas Today and Tomorrow is more of a historical reference. It’s not only fun to look at details about the casinos that have opened but it’s also great to see what could have been.
For example, did you know that before the High Roller observation wheel opened at The Linq there were at least 6 failed attempts to bring a Ferris wheel to the Vegas Strip?
You can learn more about Voyager and casinos with Ferris wheels here.
Here’s a story that I don’t share very often. I first considered moving to Las Vegas after I learned that a proposed W Hotel would also include condos. The projected prices for condos weren’t outlandish and living just off the Vegas Strip seemed like a great idea. Thankfully the project failed and the older version of me decided to live in the suburbs of Las Vegas. We’ll finally see a W Hotel in Las Vegas later this year at SLS Las Vegas.
The Vegas Dreams section isn’t just a list of failed projects with renderings and details that you can’t find anywhere else. It’s a section of the website that represented the dreams of many Vegas fans had for their favorite city in the world. I don’t visit the website to reminisce often. I visit the website whenever I hear of an outlandish new proposal that is destined to fail like many before it. The site serves as a memory of what worked and didn’t work while Vegas was booming.
Find Vegas Today and Tomorrow and see some amazing information on Las Vegas that you won’t find elsewhere.
