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? CENTENNIAL: continuesin historic downtown post ojjke building CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6 The Fremont Street Experience garage w ill Gap its fee at $5 for the day instead of charging by the hour. "The Best Is Yet To Come" Gala: Chances are you wouldn’t make a last-m inute decision to attend this $300 per-person gala at the old downtown post office, | renamed POST Modern, 301E. Stewart Ave. But should the spirit m ove you, tickets for the event honoring Senior U.S. D istrict Court Judge Lloyd D. George are still available. Call 229-1767 or 229-5902. Andre’s caters the 6:30 p.m. bash featuring m usic from the Count Basie Orchestra. The post office building is open all month before it closes again for ongoing renovation. It houses the free exhibit “Vegas VIP (Viewed in Postcards),” a collection of vintage postcards that can be view ed from 1 to 3 p.m. and 5 to 7 p.m. weekdays and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays. Re-creation of the Land Auction: It w ill be interesting to see who turns out on Sunday morning for this quirkiest of centennial events: A 12-page play re-enacting the land auction for the original Las Vegas town site; Local business types, including Bob Stoldal of KLAS-TV, Channel 8 and Golden Gate casino owner Mark Brandenburg, w ill take on the roles of historical characters. Mayor Oscar Goodman launches the show as Sen. William Clark. The 10 a.m. event is free on a stage near the Union Plaza. At 10:30 p.m., the first of four historical m arkers on Fremont Street w ill be unveiled. World's Largest Birthday Cake: Your oven is safe. The Chicago-based Sara Lee Corporation is handling the heavy baking on the 91,000 pounds of cake and supplying the 39,720 pounds of icing; all to best the previous world’s record for a birthday cake (That one also happened to be be constructed by Sara Lee, for Fort Payne, Ala., “The Sock Capital of the World,” back in 1989). Still, som eone has to put it all together. That’s why volunteers are invited to come down to Cashman Field Center at midnight Saturday and help unload the cake sections to build the 102-by-52-foot cake that took 22 days to bake. The cake w ill be on view from 2-5 p.m., then w ill be cut by Goodman and dished out to people at 5:15 p.m. Sunday evening festivities: The party on the city’s official May 15 birthday continues in the Cashman Field baseball stadium from 6 to 10 p.m. The disco cover band Boogie Knights plays at 6:30 p.m. At 8 p.m., the Flying Elvi troupe inspired by the m ovie “Honeymoon in Vegas” parachutes in. The 10 jum p-suited paratroopers will have com ets attached to their feet that leave 30-foot streaks in the air behind them. Kool & The Gang perform classic funk at 8:30 p.m., and the evening concludes about 10 p.m. with a six-m inute fireworks show.