History of Las Vegas in a Cool Graphic

The Las Vegas Sun has a great graphical history of Las Vegas on its website. You can find that link here. Now the time period covered by the map ends in 2007, so it misses some of the new facilities, such as the Aria, Cosmopolitan, Encore, etc., but the early days of Vegas are captured quite well. That is the real value in the map - the history and seeing how the facilities evolved over time.

The map covers the strip, downtown and the valley, and in each decade tab, there is a time period overview that has bullet point historical items of note. It's definitely worth a look! Kudos to the Sun for putting this together.