After Paramount Pictures head Stanley Jaffe refused to approve a proposal to build a life-sized Starship Enterprise, the Fremont Street Experience was chosen as the project. Downtown Las Vegas hotels and casinos sought to build an attraction that would lure more visitors to their businesses. The large number of neon signs earned the area the nickname 'Glitter Gulch'.īy 1992, 80 percent of the Las Vegas casino market was on the Las Vegas Strip. įor many years, the western end of Fremont Street was the area most commonly portrayed whenever producers wanted to display the lights of Las Vegas.

The Horseshoe was the first casino to install carpeting, while the Golden Nugget was the first structure designed from the ground up to be a casino. Fremont St, first traffic light, first elevator (the Apache Hotel in 1932), and the first high-rise (the Fremont Hotel in 1956). The venue has become a major tourist attraction for downtown Las Vegas, and is also the location of the SlotZilla zip line attraction and the city's annual New Year's Eve party, complete with fireworks on the display screen.įremont Street had Las Vegas' first hotel (the Hotel Nevada in 1906, present day Golden Gate), first telephone (1907), first paved street (1925), first Nevada gaming license - issued to the Northern Club at 15 E. Before each show, one bidirectional street that crosses the Experience is blocked off for safety reasons.Ĭoncerts, usually free, are also held on three stages. While Las Vegas is known for never turning the outside casino lights off, each show begins by turning off the lights on all of the buildings, including the casinos, under the canopy. The central attraction is a barrel vault canopy, 90 ft (27 m) high at the peak and four blocks, or approximately 1,375 ft (419 m), in length. The FSE occupies the westernmost five blocks of Fremont Street, including the area known for years as ' Glitter Gulch', and portions of some other adjacent streets. The Fremont Street Experience (FSE) is a pedestrian mall and attraction in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada.

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