But Aladdin's lamp still shines brightly on Fremont Street in downtown Las Vegas.
For that we can thank the wonderfully enterprising Neon Museum and Boneyard.
The Neon Museum has actually acquired many iconic Vegas neon signs and images and quite a few of them are alive and well -- on exhibit and shining brightly every night on Fremont. It's worth a trip downtown to see these evocative pieces of Americana. They represent an important part of our national heritage and bespeak a time when Las Vegas was one of the biggest little cities in the world -- a sharp-shootin saloon town that epitomized the freewheelin ways of the wild, wild west.
The Neon Museum has even more neon at the boneyard but we can't show you the photos of those signs in part because they're not quite ready for viewing. They still await restoration.
But we do recommend that you visit the boneyard yourself. A contribution to the Neon Museum will gain you admission to one of the most fascinating, most unusual attractions in the whole country. It certainly was a highlight of our recent trip to Sin City.
And while you're downtown in Vegas be sure to visit The Fremont Street Experience -- a dazzling light and sound show that spans four of the liveliest blocks west of the Great White Way.
It's Vegas, baby . . . Vegas!
All photos copyright 2011 by Dan Cirucci.
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