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A view of Freemont Street in the older part of Las Vegas, visited by Sandy and Te Whainoa at 12:30am.
The projection surface is the largest screen in the world, measuring 1,500 feet long (5 football fields). The screen is
made up of 12,500,000 LED lamps with 180 strobes and 8 robotic mirrors per 100m block. The life of the bulbs is 50,000
hours. Average daily attendance in the street is 25,000. The average light show is six minutes long and is free to view.

Above: This was the Gold Strike Casino complex just
east of Boulder City as the group saw it after visiting
Hoover Dam. We stopped there for an evening meal.
Right: The results of a fire at the Gold Strike Casino in
June 1998, two months after our visit.