Tourist cross the Las Vegas Strip in front of the Monte Carlo hotel and casino. Pedestrian safety has been improved over the years, but remains an issue where elevated walkways have not been installed.

Stamp on verso: "Donna Michelle Porter Photography Las Vegas NV (702) 222-8306"

Photographed as part of the UNLV Special Collections and Archives' Building Las Vegas collecting initiative started in 2016. This photo is part of a series documenting the construction of the Madison Square Garden (MSG) Sphere at the Venetian Resort, also know as Sphere Las Vegas.

'Prepared by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Federal Insurance Administration. 1973.' Sheet 1: Las Vegas NE, Nev.; Sheet 2: Las Vegas SE, Nev.; Sheet 3:Las Vegas SW, Nev.; Sheet 4: Las Vegas NW, Nev. Published by Geological Survey (U.S.). Scale 1:24,000. [1 in. to approx. 2,000 ft.]. Relief shown by contours. Flood information overprinted on U.S. Geological Survey 7.5 minute topographic quadrangles: [sheet 1] Las Vegas NE quadrangle, [sheet 2] Las Vegas SE quadrangle, [sheet 3] Las Vegas SW quadrangle, [sheet 4] Las Vegas NW quadrangle, 1967. Shows areas subject to flooding by a flood that has 1 in 100 chance on the average of occurring in any one year. "Flood boundaries were estimated from: regional stage-frequency relations." Includes notes.

Jake Friedman, co-owner of the Sands Hotel (left), shakes hands with actor Dan Dailey during the filming of the motion picture "Meet Me In Las Vegas," which was filmed primarily at the Sands.

Aerial view of downtown Las Vegas looking from the northwest to the southeast. Photo taken on June 23, 1962. Stamped on the back: Jay Florian Mitchell Photographer 614 SO. 6th DU 4-5148 Las Vegas, Nevada Douglass Studio, INC. 614 South Sixth Dudley 4-5148 Las Vegas, Nevada. Comments on the photo written by Don Dobson are included.