Stayed in the Luxor Hotel this time, the huge pyramid with a sphinx as a guard in front at the end of the Strip - with a view towards the airport and the event space where the crazy guy shot 58 people last October. A wonderful memorial was set up in the Arts District in remembrance of the victims.
On Saturday we didn’t focus on the strip, just walked parts of it in the morning. There not too much has changed since our last visit.
Instead, we explored the downtown area, starting with the Arts District. A lot is going on there: not only arts institutions, hip vintage shops and cafés are popping up (besides older antique stores).
But, the best was a group of abandoned buildings used as canvas for fantastic murals, which mostly date in 2017 or 2018:
Also, there are many, more commercial, murals in this neighborhood:
On to the new Pawn Plaza and Pawn Shop - which is famous from a popular TV series. There is always a long line of visitors in front, waiting to get in. The owner, Rick, has recently set up sort of a little container park (pretty en vogue nowadays!) across the parking lot, and opened a restaurant where he is bartending on weekends.
Walked over to Fremont East, another up-and-coming neighborhood. There was a container village set up two or three years ago. We took a coffee break here in the sun, at about 70 deg. F. Across the street, at the parking lot is where we found this grand mural on the pic.
Fremont Street Experience is the core of "Old Vegas", of downtown,and got a facelift some years ago. The zip line became popular and there are cheap bars and lady dancers and buskers. More and more of the old casino hotels are updated and it's not a bad location to stay.
Getting back from Fremont Street to the hotel- after dinner at Main Street Station Brewery - was quite an effort, busses didn’t arrive first, then they were so slow in the Saturday evening traffic, that we walked most of the way back to the Luxor.
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