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10 Facts about Las Vegas -The city of Las Vegas chapels host an average of 315 weddings per day! - At 12 o’clock midnight October 1st, 1910, a strict anti-gambling law went into effect in Nevada. The law even forbade flipping a coin for the price of a drink. It didn't last long! - 36.7 million visitors come to play Las Vegas slot machines every year, and no wonder - there's nearly 200,000 to chose from. - Las Vegas avoided the worst of the Great Depression due to the Hoover Dam construction project, and the influx of gambling money when the Casinos became legal in 1931. - The bell is the oldest symbol still used on today's slot machines. - The Silver Slipper was the first casino to hire female card dealers on the Las Vegas Strip (in 1971). - Elvis and Priscilla Presley were married at the original Aladdin hotel.
More facts -Frank Sinatra was the first Vegas headliner to earn $100,000 per week. - It's estimated that every day Las Vegas casinos give away $3 million of freebies (more than $1 billion per year) just to get customers through their doors. - Shrimp consumption in Las Vegas is more than 60,000 pounds a day. That's higher than the rest of the country combined and adds up to 22 million pounds per year.
PLACE: Las Vegas is a place where people go to gamble and have fun. it is a place with big buildings and a lot of lights. though it is in the middle of a desert people still visit all the time.
Region: Formal Region: The United States Region Climate: Desert
L:ocation Absolute location : 36N 115W Relitive location : The Vegas Strip is actually outside the City limits on 4.1 miles of Las Vegas Boulevard South in unincorporated Clark County, Nevada.
Movement: Linear: Las Vegas is well known around the world, the Colorado River runs to it. Time: to fly from Atl, Ga to Las Vegas it would take approximatly 4 hours and 40 minutes Psychological: I have never been to Las vegas, therefore it feels very far away. to me.
HUMAN ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION: People go to las vegas for fun. A lot of people gamble there and party. many people call it the city of lights.
Jay El amin
