Vintage Vegas: Scenes From a Desert Boomtown

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Architecture & Design
'50s
Loomis Dean—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

On the anniversary of Nevada legalizing gambling, LIFE.com presents photos of the town in the mid-1950s — when the high-stakes mecca was in the midst of a building boom that would redefine it forever. Read More

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