Fremont street is the original Las Vegas strip, built around the main transportation hub of the early days. Over the decades since it spawned it's fallen in glamour to the newer casinos of the South Strip. You can still easily take the Deuce down to Fremont Street, but it noticeably diverts away from Las Vegas boulevard for a few blocks in the weird dead-zone between the old and new, where money seems to have skittered away to other locations as the crackheads who amble the streets grow in number. This has had an interesting impact... while I will always readily recommend Fremont Street experience to any tourist who asks me for advice, it's due to the fact that the buskers who proliferate in the streets are a class of their own and the amenities are half the cost of the newer end. Downtown and Fremont feel like an island, separate from "The Strip" that most tourists know, and yet this is the original. It's worth seeing if solely to see where the city came from and how much it has changed over the years. There's always some form of live entertainment, be it an Elvis impersonator or "Safe Sax" guy, spray paint artists or the dancing DJs. Fremont is guaranteed to be a memorable experience!
More photos after the cut!
Catch you next time!
XOXO,
NAU
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