Comments on: Landmark Hotel – Las Vegas – 1974

By: Barb

Barb — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 07:29:25 +0000

Dear Mr. Phoenix,
Enjoy your website – thank you for the fun. Do you know the name of the restaurant that was located at the top of the Landmark Hotel? My husband and I had our wedding night dinner there in 1987 but have forgotten the name. Thank you for your help.
Sincerely,
Barb

By: Marisa

Marisa — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 19:26:29 +0000

Having just spent last weekend in Vegas… Although we had a lovely view from our room, all the buildings are so large now you really can’t see much beyond what is right nearby… I miss the days of old when the scale of Vegas was still human… Can’t wait to see you Saturday!… I’ve been meaning to get to your show for years and finally am not working!…

By: Don Bee

Don Bee — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 21:42:54 +0000

Any pics, lauren b?

By: lauren b

lauren b — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:02:22 +0000

I am fortunate to have a 3 quarter slot machine (three 7′s,fruit) from the Landmark Hotel. I bought it a few years before they blew up the Hotel. Anyone know how much its worth??

By: Jerry Foisel

Jerry Foisel — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:09:32 +0000

George Foisel Jr. was a construction worker on The Landmark in 1963. Like most Vegans at the time… THE FASCINATION WITH THIS SPACE-AGE WONDER WAS LOST ON HIM (Dad was more at home in a cheap strip mall bar like Payless Liquor next to a 7/11 and one of his favorite hillbilly barber shops, “You still giving Butches LeRoy?”).
Our Polish Maverick (Bob Stupak) either ASTOUNDED OR INSULTED Vegans with his version of The Landmark (“The Stupak Stump”).
Stupak was treated like Rodney Dangerfield by old line hypocrites that were “offended” by Bob’s earthy character catering to “common people” (and not the so called, high rolling, bigshot WHALES that have proven to be bigshot cheats that even Steve Wynn had to have arrested and thrown in jail for skipping out on thier markers. IT’S A FOOLISH BELIEF AMONGST THE SUCKERS THAT YOU JUST HAVE TO LEAVE NEVADA TO GET OUT OF A GAMBLING DEBT).
Before they put in security cameras to prevent it: I used to take dates up into the “private” REFUGE of the Stratosphere for VERY EXCLUSIVE PICNICS AT 1,000 FEET OVER THE STRIP (the Refuge is the first two floors of the bottom of the Stratosphere Saucer reserved as a fire refuge… NOT AN EXCLUSIVE RESTAURANT).
Still haven’t dined in The Stratosphere’s REVOLVING RESTAURANT but I do go back up on the Fourth of July… TO WATCH THE FIREWORKS – BELOW!!!

By: Andy Windes

Andy Windes — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:20:46 +0000

My family moved to Las Vegas the same year this photo was taken–1974. I still remember the date, 2/16/74. As luck would have it, for the first six weeks or so that we were here, we lived at the old Ambassador Inn at the corner of Flamingo and Paradise. Every morning when I got up–just as the sun was rising and the lights were going down–I looked out the room window and saw the Landmark. It was quite an awe inspiring sight for a ten year-old. The government was paying a per diem until we got our own house and so we ate out at all the best restaurants the town had. Almost all of those places are gone. The Dunes, Sands, Castaways, Stardust, etc., all gone. After much begging, we went to a Sunday brunch at the Landmark, which was held in the upper “saucer” section of the hotel. The ride to the top in the glass elevator provided a great view. The hotel was only five years old at the time and had not fallen in to the disrepair that would plague it in later years. In any event, I was very sad when the decision was made to blow up the place in the mid-90′s, but nothing is sacred in Las Vegas. The town had a certain class in those days that it lacks now, and I know many a long-time local who would gladly turn back the clock.

By: Doug in Belize

Doug in Belize — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:21:46 +0000

I wish I would have had the money to buy this beautiful building and make it my private home. It should have never been destroyed and kept as a shrine to the great Howard Hughes.

By: Ian Wolfram

Ian Wolfram — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 05:35:51 +0000

My parents owned this hotel in the late 70s-early 80s. It was a marvel. It was difficult to attract customers with the explosion of newer hotels over on the strip, but there were plans to expand this hotel and make it truly monumental…unfortunately this never worked out and the hotel was sold in 1983. I miss the pool (shaped like a whale with a bar in the center) and the view. I have many unique memories and items from the Landmark. Thanks for the slides and the kind words.

ian

By: John Jamieson

John Jamieson — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 04:59:28 +0000

I spent my early days of High School watching an amazing architect complete the construction plans for the visionary Landmark Tower and I accompanied him on several pre-construction and construction trips to Las Vegas.
Through the following decades I visited the Landmark Hotel & Casino many times – a couple with that architect, my Dad – John W. Jamieson of Tustin California.

By: Suzanne Hudson

Suzanne Hudson — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 10:34:41 +0000

I lived in Las Vegas as a child in the early 1960′s and remember the Landmark well. I danced in the disco on the rotating floor at the top in 1983 with friends, and ate in the resteraunt on same rotating floor on July 4th 1976. I do miss seeing that distinctive saucer shape at the top of the tower!