Alternate Vegases: Ideas that did not execute

Before the Venetian, Steve Winn wanted to dig canals into Fremont Street, and fill them with contaminated groundwater. During the Cold War, the Las Vegas City Council wanted a giant fallout shelter to hold their post-holocaust meetings. Las Vegas Life has a short article on other failed plans in the place that was almost renamed Hoover City.

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