Vegas StrEats Jan. 14, 2012 - 6pm-1am. Across the Street From the El Cortez
This Saturday night, January 14, 2011. Food Trucks! Artist! and Live Music!! Experience Las Vegas’ food trucks in the monthly Las Vegas Streats Festival. The Festival starts at 6pm – 1am in Downtown Las Vegas across the street from the El Cortez. Admission is free and there will be Live Music, Dj’s, and Artists, and Vegas’ own upscale Food Trucks. Including: Slidin’ Thru, Sin City Wings, Papi Churro, WTF Pizza Truck, Tasty Bunz, Ben’s BBQ, Red Neck Kitchen and Grouchy John’s. Some old favorites and some new trucks this month. Great food and music bringing new life to the downtown, see you there and dress warm. Yum, funnel cake.
The Mob is moving in. This isn’t the first time that the Mob has been in downtown Las Vegas. The recently renovated Post Office in downtown will be the new home for some good fellows. The almost ready Mob Museum is getting ready to open in February. The Mob Museum is dedicated to the thrilling story of organized crime and law enforcement. It will present an exciting and authentic view of the mob’s impact on Las Vegas history and its unique imprint on the world.
The museum is located at the end of 3rd street at 300 Stewart Avenue near the newly opened “Mob Bar”, just north of the Fremont Street Experience. The expected opening is in February of 2012.
The Mob Museum getting ready to open its doors in February 2012
Photo by: LasVegas360.com
Date Taken: December 30, 2011
Vegas Streats December 10, 2011 in Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada
This Saturday night, December 10, 2011. Food Trucks! Artist! and Live Music!! Experience Las Vegas’ food trucks in the monthly Las Vegas Streats Festival. The Festival starts at 6pm – 1am in Downtown Las Vegas across the street from the El Cortez. Admission is free and there will be Live Music, Dj’s, and Artists, and Vegas’ own upscale Food Trucks. Including: Slidin’ Thru, Fukuburger, Pop’s Truck, Yellow Lunch Box, Carefree, BBQ Boy, Snow Ono, Sin City Wings, Papi Churro and Grouchy John’s. Some old favorites and some new trucks this month. Great food and music bringing new life to the downtown, see you there and dress warm.
Las Vegas is getting a new water park. Since the closer of Wet-n-Wild in 2004, Las Vegas with it 110+ degree weather has been water-park-less. A new joint venture with private/public ownership including the County and Howard Hughes Corporation. A new water-park is making its way to Las Vegas. Splash Canyon Water Park will be located away from the Strip and out in the suburbs on 7055 S. Fort Apache Road in the southwest part of town near the I-215.
The public/private partnership was announced November 14, 2012 by the private investment team, Clark County and The Howard Hughes Corporation representatives. In comparison, Wet-n-Wild, open in May 1985, sat on a 27 acre lot next to the Sahara Hotel on the Las Vegas “Strip” and lost it lease after 20 years. Splash Canyon will be a 25 acre $18 million project for its first phase and expanded to 40 acres in phase II.
Splash Canyon in the southwest area of Las Vegas expected to open May 2012
Splash Canyon Waterpark is expected to open Memorial Day weekend and will employ more than 500 seasonal employees. Splash Canyon will feature the following:
Season passes are already on sale for $99 while they last. Visit their website for more information.
UPDATE: This was put on hold for a year and re-branded as Wet’n’Wild and is currently open on the southwest part of town.
Slidin’ Thru hosted a free movie in the park event at Angel Park near Durango and Alta tonight on the Summerlin end of town. The movie shown was the hit classic, Ghostbusters. Along with with the Slidn’ Thru gang was a taste of Las Vegas’ finest food trucks including: Tasty Bunz, Sin City Wings, Grouchy John’s, Snow Ono shaved ice, and of course the Slidin’ Thru’s own Slider Truck. The weather was perfect and folks in Summerlin finally got some of that food truck love they deserve. Enjoy the photos below, click for enlarged images.
Photos by: LasVegas360.com
Photos taken: 10/14/2011
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