[The Guardian] Old habits die hard: Downtown Las Vegas – a photo essay

Old habits die hard: Downtown Las Vegas – a photo essay

As Las Vegas prepares to host its first Formula One race in more than 40 years, photographer Andy Hall celebrates the city’s original street of dreams

Las Vegas, especially to outsiders, is a city that embodies the get-rich-quick ideals of the American dream, and this year this most American of cities will host a Formula One race for the first time since 1982. But over the last 40 years since the last race was held there, Las Vegas has become two separate entities – at opposite ends of the famed Las Vegas Boulevard.

From its infancy until the mid-20th century, the only Vegas was downtown Vegas. Downtown Vegas at the northern end of Las Vegas Boulevard was where gambling began and the Las Vegas myths were made. In fact downtown is Las Vegas. The Strip, where the Formula One cars will be racing, is actually outside the city limits.

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