Lost In Vegas

Author : Jeff Burbank
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781909815032

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Lost Las Vegas by Jeff Burbank Pdf

Lost Las Vegas traces the cherished places in the city that time and the brutal forces of economics have swept aside before the National Register of Historic Places could save them from the wrecker's ball or, in the case of Las Vegas, before the Neon Boneyard can claim them.Organised chronologically starting with the earliest losses and ending with the latest, the book details the many hotels and casinos that failed to move with the times and got swept away for something bigger, better and brighter.Legendary names in the field of entertainment have come and gone - the Sands hotel featured many of the rapack in residence, but the casino is long gone. Howard Hughes and the mob featured heavily in Vegas history but neither could sustain their success for very long. Today, it is the showgirl who is under threat. That Vegas institution is under threat from the big setpiece shows such as Cirque du Soleil.Losses include: Arizona Club, El Portal Theater, Clark County Courthouse, Hotel Nevada, First State Bank, Las Vegas Rail depot, El Dorado Club, Old Ice House, Atomic Tourism, Helldorado on Fremont Street, The Green Shack, El Rancho Vegas, Hotel Last Frontier, Desert Inn, Sands, Sahara, The Thunderbird, The Mint, Royal Nevada, Stardust, Showboat, Hotel Biltmore, Dunes, Hacienda, Moulin Rouge, Tally Ho, Paddlewheel/Debby Reynold’s. Silver Slipper, Tam O’Shanter, Bonanza, Boardwalk Casino, Old Las Vegas Convention Center, Landmark Hotel, Aladdin, La Concha, Westward Ho!, Castaways

Author : Dan Greenburg
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780375833458

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Lost in Las Vegas by Dan Greenburg Pdf

After crashing their spaceship in the Nevada desert, Klatu, Lek, and their sister Ploo go to Las Vegas in search of the one mechanic who can fix it.

Author : Edward Anchel
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781450233675

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Lost in Vegas by Edward Anchel Pdf

David Atlas is a middle-aged partner in a Florida law firm who suddenly finds himself with a free weekend after his wife Elaine books a short Caribbean cruise with a girlfriend. After choosing to ignore several legitimate reasons to stay home, David books a four-day escape to Las Vegas. Immediately after David hears he is about to receive a presidential appointment to the SEC, he embarks on a trip to Sin City that turns out to be nothing like what he anticipated. When he steps into a cab with a driver who refuses to talk and offers him a drink with more ingredients than alcohol, Davids intuition tells him something is wrongand hes right. As the cab driver pulls into a convenience store parking lot, David is jumped by two men, and a hood is slipped over his head. Suddenly, David is immersed in a chain of events that prove too difficult for him to navigate by himself. As David travels through the bowels of Las Vegas, he realizes he is a playernot at the blackjack table as he had originally planned, but as an unwilling but active participant in an evolving saga that will soon overtake his entire life.

Author : Ian Jones
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781546284437

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Lost in Vegas by Ian Jones Pdf

John Smith has a job to do. Hes in Las Vegas looking for a missing daughter, but he discovers quickly that if shes still alive, then shes in trouble. And thats where the problems begin.

Author : N. J. Cartner
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781911596356

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Lost in Manchester Found in Vegas by N. J. Cartner Pdf

Ricky Lever's life is thrown into despair following the break up of his long-term relationship, and with it comes the realisation that life is in danger of passing him by. Desperate for answers, he embarks on a soul-searching trip to Las Vegas with three of his oldest friends, hoping that a new direction in life will be revealed to him.In the midst of the excitement, madness and ecstasy of the city's atmosphere, life changing revelations prove to be a little harder to come by than Ricky hoped, and he is pushed to take the ultimate gamble.Bringing the city of Las Vegas to life with a killer soundtrack running throughout, this uniquely told coming of age story twists and turns through euphoric highs and emotive lows.From excessive gambling to heavy drinking, strip clubs to the desert, the biggest hotels to the lowliest bars, ride along for the trip of a lifetime as these four ordinary lads from Manchester make the most of the extraordinary world of Las Vegas.Seen through the eyes of Ricky, ';Lost in Manchester, Found in Vegas' is a hilarious, honest, and emotional journey showing how six nights in Sin City can influence a man at a crossroads in life.

Author : Kristen Painter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1941695639

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Lost In Las Vegas by Kristen Painter Pdf

Author : John O'Brien
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802197290

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Leaving Las Vegas by John O'Brien Pdf

This “brutal and unflinching” novel of fleeting love in Sin City inspired the film starring Nicholas Cage and Elizabeth Shue (Jay McInerney, author of Bright Lights, Big City). John O’Brien’s debut novel, Leaving Las Vegas, is an emotionally wrenching story of a woman who embraces life and a man who rejects it; a powerful tale of hard luck, hard drinking, and a relationship of tenderness and destruction. An avowed alcoholic, Ben drinks away his family, friends, and, finally, his job. With deliberate resolve, he burns the remnants of his life and heads for Las Vegas to end it all in the last great binge of his hopeless life. On the Strip, he picks up Sera, a prostitute, in what might have become another excess in his self-destructive jag. Instead, their chance meeting becomes a respite on the road to oblivion as they form a bond that is as mysterious as it is immutable.

Author : Melody Carlson
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780310714927

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Lost in Las Vegas by Melody Carlson Pdf

After a Winter Ball that was a mix of fun and worry, seventeen-year-old DJ sets aside her hope for a quiet Christmas and joins Taylor in Las Vegas, although she fears she will do nothing but try to keep her roommate out of trouble.

Author : Avery Cardoza
Publisher : Cardoza
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1580427138

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Lost in Las Vegas by Avery Cardoza Pdf

This offbeat, dark comedy follows two hapless vacationers in Las Vegas as their world collapses around them and their lives spiral downward into the treacherous underbelly of Sin City. This offbeat, dark comedy follows John and Ludo, two hapless vacationers in Las Vegas, through a series of misadventures as their world collapses around them and their lives spiral downward into the seedy and treacherous underbelly of Sin City. As the result of a dangerous infatuation with a mysterious woman, this bad-luck and no-luck duo—in just twenty-four hours—find themselves hunted by the mob, FBI, six ferocious killers, police, and the Rat, a psychopathic ex-husband, in a world where nothing is as it seems. And from there, things go downhill—they’re broke, homeless, and wander the streets with no way to get out of town. Bickering every step of the way, they cross paths with eccentric and colorful characters inhabiting the shadows of Las Vegas casinos, strip clubs, and downtown streets. John and Ludo don’t quite know who is who and what is what as they desperately try to keep one step ahead of their pursuers and fulfill one very simple dream—get the hell out of Vegas.

Author : Michael Connelly
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429911085

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Murder in Vegas by Michael Connelly Pdf

Las Vegas. Lost Wages. Sin City. An artificial oasis of pleasure, spectacle, and entertainment, the gambling capital of America has reinvented itself so many times that its doubtful that anyone knows for sure what's real and what isn't in the miles of neon and scorching heat. Las Vegas is considered the ultimate players destination-no matter what your game. Almost anything is available-for a price, mind you, and sometimes losers walk away from the tables with even less than just an empty wallet or purse-sometimes they don't walk away at all. Now the International Association of Crime Writers and New York Times-bestselling author Michael Connelly have gathered twenty-two crime and mystery stories about the ultimate playground, Las Vegas, and what can happen behind the glitz and glamour. From a gambler who must-win at the roulette table to stay alive to a courier who's only mistake was accepting a package with Las Vegas as the final destination, come to the true city that never sleeps, where fortunes are made and lost every day, and where snake-eyes aren't found just on a pair of dice. Murder in Vegas features stories by: James Swain, S.J. Rozan, Wendy Hornsby, Michael Collins, T.P Keating, J. Madison Davis, Sue Pike, Joan Richter, Libby Hellmann, Tom Savage, Edward Wellen, K.j.a. Wishnia, Linda Kerslake, John Wessel, Lise McClendon, Ronnie Klaskin, Ruth Cavin, A.B. Robbins , Gay Toltl Kinman, Micki Marz, Rick Mofina, Jeremiah Healy At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Paul McGuire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0557500079

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Lost Vegas by Paul McGuire Pdf

Lost Vegas: The Redneck Riviera, Existentialist Conversations with Strippers, and the World Series of Poker... Las Vegas lures you to shed moral responsibility and piss away your money on indulgences like decadent food, entertainment, gambling, and sex. If you don't enjoy these pastimes, then what's the point of visiting the land of compromised values? Where else can you get a cheap steak, crash a Mexican wedding, get cold-decked in blackjack by a dealer named Dong, play video poker for thirteen straight hours, drink piña coladas out of a plastic coconut, bum a cigarette from an 85-year-old woman with an oxygen tank, speed away to the Spearmint Rhino in a free limo, get rubbed by a former Miss Teen USA, puke in the back of a cab driven by a retired Navy SEAL, snort cheap cocaine in the bathroom at O'Sheas, and then catch a lucky card on the river to crack pocket aces and win a poker tournament? Only in Las Vegas.

Author : Geoff Schumacher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692392076

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Lost in Las Vegas by Geoff Schumacher Pdf

Lost in Las Vegas captures a woman's journey to some famous and not-so-famous locations throughout Downtown Las Vegas, with some brief history and untold stories mixed in. She travels with her most prized possessions: her fabulous wardrobe and vintage jewels.She wanders through the city dressed to resemble the era of each location, styled in some of my favorite designs from my women's eveningwear line, along with vintage accessories from my mother's closet.The process of making this book has been a labor of love for more than two years. The concept was sparked by my own journey, as well as by my fascination with the Rat Pack, Atomic and Glitter Gulch eras. I wanted to capture the rich Las Vegas history that is often overshadowed by its reputation as the entertainment capital of the world. I decided to share a humble side of Las Vegas from a local's perspective through my designs and art.I brushed up on my local history and took notes on some of the most memorable historical locations throughout Downtown. With my dog by my side, I scouted more than thirty locations, then narrowed them down to twenty-five, which are used as the backdrop for each photograph. All the locations were captured throughout a four-day photo shoot with a local team, all top talents in their fields.Lost in Las Vegas is a reminder that feeling lost isn't always a misfortune, that it is in such moments that we find ourselves. Our weaknesses become our strengths and our mistakes become our lessons. As you follow her journey, her story becomes your own, as we all have felt lost at some point in our lives.

Author : Su Kim Chung
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-24
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781911670100

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Las Vegas Then and Now by Su Kim Chung Pdf

Las Vegas Then and Now pairs vintage shots from 100 years of the city's history with the same view today.

Author : Hunter S. Thompson
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780007596713

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Hunter S. Thompson Pdf

‘We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like, “I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive ...”’

Author : John Peel
Publisher : Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0671007106

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Lost in Vegas! by John Peel Pdf

When Alex notices strange characters hanging around her family during their Las Vegas vacation, she takes a gamble on exposing her powers to find out what they're after. Featured in Nick's website (Nick.com).