From the UNLV University Libraries Photographs of the Development of the Las Vegas Valley, Nevada (PH-00394). Part of the collection documents the entire 19 mile length of the north/south Eastern Avenue / Civic Center Drive alignment. This photograph was captured in the section of Civic Center Drive between Cheyenne Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard.

Sections of Mohawk Street north of West Sahara Avenue have full road and sidewalk treatments whereas ranch style housing and mini cul-de-sac developments with two lane country roads and no sidewalks dictate the feel away from Sahara.

A sign advertising the Sahara Pavilion North can be seen on the east side of Decatur Boulevard north of West Sahara Avenue. At right is the Dignity Heath Sahara building under construction.

Looking north down Gateway Avenue at its intersection with Cincinnati Avenue demonstrates different types of development in an area off East Sahara Avenue near Lamb Boulevard.

A detail of the flood control feature designed to allow water from the single family housing development to flow to East Sahara Avenue west of Lamb Boulevard.

Trailers and vacant parcels occupy the Maycliff RV & Mini Storage Park and East Sahara Avenue west of Lamb Boulevard.

The Stratosphere tower can be see in the distance as homes line Central Drive in the Maycliff Senior Mobile Home Park off East Sahara Avenue and Sandhill Road.