Fremont Street ! Where old Las Vegas meets the new! WEBCAM

Right out the front door of the Plaza Hotel/Casino, Fremont Street awaits. With the attractions of a midway, live bands and the amazing Fremont Street Experience! You'll also find the best dining, here on Fremont Street.

The Fremont Street Experience is a 5-block open-air pedestrian mall, a landscaped strip of outdoor cafés, vendor carts, and colorful kiosks purveying food and merchandise. You hear a musical heartbeat and lookup as the metal canopy of lights above you explodes with sound and color. When those lights go on, the casinos go dark. Every night the high-tech light-and-laser show (the canopy is equipped with more than 2.1 million lights) is enhanced by a concert-hall-quality sound system. It comes toward you and zooms over your head. The Fremont Street Experience includes "Odyssey: The Illuminating Journey," which travels from the rain forest to the urban jungle, "Dancing in the Street," a musical medley of songs by The Supremes, Smokey Robinson and Aretha Franklin, as well as tributes to Vegas legends, country music and classic rock. Best to place to watch? balcony of Fitzgerald's. GET THERE EARLY to get a seat on the balcony.

The Las Vegas area, situated in one of the hottest and driest locales in the U.S., has 31 major golf courses.

 

The number of employees who work the graveyard shift (generally midnight-8 am) in Las Vegas is the largest per capita in the U.S.

 

The average annual number of sunny days in Las Vegas is 320.

 

The Nevada Test Site, roughly 100 mi/160 km from the Las Vegas city center, conducted a total of 928 tests of atomic bombs, more than 100 above ground.

 

Vegas has an estimated 15,000 mi/24,150 km of neon lighting.

 

Gambling dominates Las Vegas, but the city also offers fine collections of post-Impressionist art, a ballet company, a symphony orchestra and some of the country's leading gourmet restaurants with vast wine cellars.

 

Every year, more than 100,000 couples get married in Las Vegas. Among the famous names have been Elvis and Priscilla Presley, Frank Sinatra and Mia Farrow, Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, Michael Jordan, and Joan Collins. Mickey Rooney alone was married eight times in Las Vegas.