The Fremont Street Experience in Downtown is a pedestrian mall with a twist. A four-block-long canopy of LED lights and symphony-worthy sound system come alive at night with eye-popping visuals amid the Glitter Gulch casino neon.
When you consider the short, gaudy history of this city in the desert, it all makes perfect sense: little more than a railroad town within living memory, Vegas took off with the advent of legal casino gambling, coming into its own in the 1960s.
Downtown was always the downmarket end, while the swanky hotels stretched out on the Strip. The decline of Downtown coincided neatly with the redevelopment of the Strip, which replaced the likes of the Dunes with mega-resorts like the MGM Grand. Out of this was born the Fremont Street Experience.
Fremont Street is done up in Vegas style, with a glass barrel arch covering over the street, turning it into a mall connecting ten casinos.
Downtown was always the downmarket end, while the swanky hotels stretched out on the Strip. The decline of Downtown coincided neatly with the redevelopment of the Strip, which replaced the likes of the Dunes with mega-resorts like the MGM Grand. Out of this was born the Fremont Street Experience.
Fremont Street is done up in Vegas style, with a glass barrel arch covering over the street, turning it into a mall connecting ten casinos.
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