Downtown Vegas, near Fremont, is its own sort of world. It's different from "The Strip", where all the newer buildings congregate in their huddled glistening masses and tourists tend to be densely packed. Fremont Street itself and the Fremont Street Experience plus the Zipline help attract tourists, who may even opt to stay in one of their older hotels for the novelty, but once you start heading east you'll quickly find the pedestrian traffic thins out. There are still hotels and motels popping up from block to block, and even an RV park too, but this isn't where the majority of the action tends to happen. It's plenty interesting for us locals, as we get some of our own events in the area, like Zappos Fandom Friday or the recent Intergalactic Art Car Festival hosted by Lyft and the Mantis from Downtown Container Park. I'm sure some lucky tourists find their way to the Fandom Friday event but it's mostly locals and, not surprisingly given its location at Zappos headquarters, a good amount of Zappos employees in particular.
The prominent downtown area, nearest to Fremont, is populated with multiple office and municipal buildings that classed up the area with fresh new pavements and glossy new exteriors. There's been a lot of new restaurants cropping up in the area as well, catering to the worker bees who need their smoothies before work and a cocktail after hours. This all translated into there being a lot more for locals to do than one might expect, especially off the traditional touristy track. On this particular evening Antho and I had gone to see Deadpool at the Eclipse Theater in Downtown, which was quite an experience. It's a luxury theater with in-show service, meaning you can press a small button and have someone bring you a beer and sliders while you watch your movie. Pretty legit! We walked to the movie and walked home as it's not that far from us and we're always looking for an excuse to stretch our legs, anyway. I hope you enjoy this glimpse into a side of Vegas not many people might get to see. Cheers!
More photos below.
See you tomorrow!
Cheers~
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XOXO,
NAU
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