The Commonwealth is located at 525 East Fremont Street in Downtown Las Vegas on the corner of 6th and Fremont St.
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Date Taken: 3/28/2013
The Commonwealth is located at 525 East Fremont Street in Downtown Las Vegas on the corner of 6th and Fremont St.
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Date Taken: 3/28/2013
The motel was originally built in 1962 as a 57-room, the Travel Inn Motel. The neon sign has the words MOTEL instead of the now refurbished OASIS and is now part of the Gold Spike Hotel and Casino.
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Date Taken: 3/30/2013
The Normandie Motel marquee and its medieval themed hatchet dates back to the 1940’s. The original motel was located on the east end of Fremont Street and was torn down during the first decade of 2000. The sign is now located on Las Vegas Blvd. just north of Fremont Street and is part of the public display from the Boneyard collection.
Another instresting fact is that this sign was designed by Betty Willis. Willis’ claim to fame is that she designed the world-famous “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada” sign, installed in 1955 by the Young Electric Sign Company.
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Date Taken: 3/30/2013
The Lucky Cuss Motel was known as the “Panorama Motel” in the 1950s. The neon sign now stand on Las Vegas Blvd. and the U.S 95 Freeway.
Joe and Stella Sobchik opened their Fremont Street bar some 50 years ago when the desert shook from atomic bomb detonations at the Nevada Test Site.
The bar at 971 E. Fremont Street, a couple of blocks east of the Blvd. Barbara Streisand shot pool there, the pools tables are still there, and it is rumored that everyone from Frank Sinatra to the Smothers Brothers stopped in for drinks over the years. You see it is far enough away from the Strip that even headliners could stop in a be a regular Joe, or Frank or Dean. Several movies, including some westerns and 1995′s “Casino,” used the bar as a backdrop. Atomic Liquors is one of the oldest continually open bars in Las Vegas still kept by the original owners, and hold liquor license Number 00001. Stella once told me that she used to sit facing the front door and watched the mushroom clouds rise in the distance, that view has since been blocked by buildings.
Stella Sobchick who ran the bar with her husband Joseph, passed away on Jan 15, 2011 at the age of 91. Joe passed away 3 months earlier also at 91 years. They had run the business for 55 years.
After being closed since 2010, Atomic Liquors will be reopening sometime during April 2013 visit http://atomiclasvegas.com/ for more information.