Courthouse square was the block between 2nd-3rd, Carson-Bridger. These photos were taken facing the southwest corner of the building nearest to 2nd & Bridger.

After a tumultuous year, Sin City makes a comeback with a slew of new projects.

At the time of this photo the new terminal had opened (off frame to the upper left) and the entrance to the airport re-routed to Paradise Rd. The original terminal seen here would soon be demolished.

The satellite of the L.A. nightspot finds inspiration in clubs of yesteryear like the Cocoanut Grove.

When the straw-marquetry radial doors swing open and guests glide down the dramatic split Streamline Moderne staircases, showgirls hit the luminescent stage and the band strikes its first chord — the two-years-in-the-making Delilah at Wynn Las Vegas will finally debut.

An old African proverb states that “When an elder dies, a library burns to the ground.”

Just days before her death last month, Elizabeth von Till Warren received, perhaps, the gift of a lifetime at her 87th birthday celebration.

The evolution of Las Vegas has been nothing short of spectacular.

Mike Smith has drawn presidents for 35 years.

Mike Smith answered his newsroom phone expecting to talk with a reader. That’s commonplace when his editorial cartoons are published in the Las Vegas Sun, as callers either reach out with a compliment or criticism.

In the early 1900s, Las Vegas looks nearly unrecognizable from what it looks like today: a town of just over 2,000 people, a few shops, a post office.

On Oct. 9, 1986, at the height of anti-gay hysteria during the AIDS crisis, a biracial gay couple from Reno, Nev., made a remarkable announcement: They were going to create what some called “a gay homeland” in the Nevada desert.