Tag Archive | las vegas
A Trip to Disney
One of the blogs that I occasionally browse is the rather excellent http://vintagedisneylandtickets.blogspot.com/ which from time to time dates a post back to the period in ancient history when our family paid a visit to Disneyland in Anaheim, California. 1973 was the year, and how the hell did we manage to take a holiday in California in [...]
Come and see Elvis and we’ll give you $50
So there we all were, ten days in Vegas, February 1974, West Yorkshires finest strolling up and down The Strip in our flannel suits and flat caps, attracting attention from the local police who kept stopping to ask why we were walking. Flannel suits and flat caps were cast aside one day though when our [...]
The one about the pool man…
Its February 1974 and a specially chartered Boeing 707 has just deposited 150 or so hardy West Yorkshire types into the Nevada desert, or more accurately at McCarran Airport Las Vegas for ten days of freeloading. This small anecdote is not about how or why they were there but a brief description would only be [...]
Video Saturday – Elvis
Elvis in 1970. Its hard to believe that just four years later my dad and Uncle Ralph simply walked in off the street at The Hilton Las Vegas to watch him perform to an uninterested audience who were drifting in and out of the auditorium on their way to play the casino. Full Story Here.
Video Saturday – The Rolling Stones
I wasn’t always a fan of The Rolling Stones, I can’t claim to be a fan in the 1960′s for instance as they were castigated in our house as “dirty bloody hippies” in preference for The Beatles who were a much nicer bunch of lads altogether. But I rediscovered The Stones in the early 70′s [...]
