Oversized postcard with aerial view of the Las Vegas Strip. Caption: "The fabulous Vegas Strip." On back: "P28950. Color by Stuart Griffith." Site Name: The Strip (Las Vegas, Nev.)
Aerial view of North Las Vegas, Nevada, looking south from Las Vegas Boulevard North between North Pecos Road and Sandy Lane. Northland Gardens apartments are seen in the center of the photograph. Caption on back of photograph: "Project: Annex. area - land use. Location: Looking so. across, west on right L.V.B.N. toward Northland Gardens, Hol. Pk., Americana."
From the Mary and Arthur Ackerman Photograph Collection (PH-00306). The building on the west side of the Strip toward the right is the Dunes Hotel and Casino. In the center on the east side of the Strip is the Flamingo with the Sands Hotel and Casino to the north. The large tract of land in the upper left is the golf course of the Desert Inn.
Two aerial ladder trucks are being moved into position to fight a fire near some Shell Oil storage tanks. A sign for the Reliable Bearing & Supply Co. is visible in the background. The Las Vegas Fire Department Battalion Chief's car is visible in the foreground.