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CARTOON ON THE FREMONT STREET EXPERIENCE SCREEN - Las Vegas
CARTOON ON THE FREMONT STREET EXPERIENCE SCREEN
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Fremont Street Experience: The Freemont Experience
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  • chelibeli
  • By chelibeli on May 15, 2004
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  • Fremont Street Experience - Las Vegas
    by chelibeli
    The Freemont Street Experience is a light and music show that goes on from 7:00 PM through midnight. Freemont has been closed to traffic and there are vendors with all types of souvenirs and gifts. The street has been covered with a network of lights and a computer runs various scenic shows while appropriate music is played.

    The best to place to watch this, is the balcony (2nd Floor) of the Fitzgerald’s with a tasteful cocktail. BUT GET THERE EARLY to get a seat on the balcony. (FREEBIE)

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    Fremont Street Experience: Freemont Streets claim to fame
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  • thecatsmeow
  • By thecatsmeow on October 2, 2004
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  • The light show - Las Vegas
    The light show
    by thecatsmeow
    This is a computer generated light and sound show that takes place on a canapy stretching over 4 blocks of Freemont Sreet 90ft in the air. They recently did a complete overhaul and added even more lights and a better sound system. Shows are every hour from 8 pm until 12 midnight and vary each hour. It is a must see in my book!

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  • Directions: Head north from the Las Vegas Blvd into downtown. We always go north on Main St. to the Plaza and park there. Parking is free when validated at the Plaza cage. (this is free also)
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    Fremont Street Experience: Freemont LED Light Street Experience
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  • machomikemd
  • By machomikemd on July 21, 2007
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  • Awesome! Viva Vision. - Las Vegas
    Awesome! Viva Vision.
    by machomikemd, 4 more photos
    Fremont Street is the second most famous street in Las Vegas, Nevada after the Las Vegas Strip. Located in the heart of the downtown casino corridor, it is the address for many famous casinos such as Binion's Horseshoe, Eldorado Club, Fremont Hotel and Casino, Golden Gate Hotel & Casino, Golden Nugget, The Mint, and the Pioneer Club.

    Fremont Street Experience located in the heart of downtown Las Vegas on the historic street that started it all. The world-famous, one-of-a-kind entertainment venue is home to Viva Vision, the biggest big screen on the planet. More than 12 million lights in the Viva Vision canopy and 550,000 watts of concert quality sound pumped to speakers throughout the venue produce an incredible array of eye-popping imagery and heart pounding music. Viva Vision shows appear nightly on the hour beginning at dusk and are free and open to the public. The giant LED screen towers 90-feet above a pedestrian mall lined with unique retail shopping kiosks and two permanent performance stages. Ten legendary casinos line Fremont Street Experience with more than 60 restaurants and thousands of loose slots. Free concerts, special events, and roaming street performers entertain the nearly 17 million visitors who come to experience the vintage Vegas attraction each year.

    Prior to the construction of the Fremont Street Experience, the western end of Fremont Street was the picture of Las Vegas that was included in virtually every television show and movie that wanted to display the lights of Las Vegas. The abundance of neon earned the street the nickname of Glitter Gulch.

  • Phone: (702) 678-5600
  • Directions: BUS ROUTEST:301 bus runs from Las Vegas Blvd to the Downtown Area, stopping at the southeast corner of the Fremont Street Experience.302 bus runs along the same route. TROLLEY:stops on 4th and Carson Street and runs throughout the Downtown Area.
  • Website: www.vegasexperience.com
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    Fremont Street Experience: Tackiness and wonder .....
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  • kymbanm
  • By kymbanm on October 27, 2004
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  • Freemont St. Light Show - Las Vegas
    Freemont St. Light Show
    by kymbanm
    I LOVE downtown Las Vegas, it reminds me of gansters and hookers. Prices are cheaper than on the strip, and if you are into tacky little Vegas souveniers, this is the place! Especially the kiosks! If it is plastic, silk-screened or tasteless, you will find it here. Freemont Street is best experienced at night - the light show is spectacular! but beware, while looking at the lights, local theives are looking for your wallets... one of the casinos is famous for 'fried twinkies' - gross sounding, I know. But decadent and worth a try ... but not alone, the sugar load will put you into shock since the fried twinkie is covered with powdered sugar and chocolate chips .......

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    Fremont Street Experience: The World's Largest Laser-Light-and-Sound Show
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  • Dutchnatasja
  • By Dutchnatasja on November 22, 2004
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  • Las Vegas - Las Vegas
    Las Vegas
    by Dutchnatasja
    The Fremont Street Experience is a 5-block open-air pedestrian mall, a landscaped strip of outdoor cafes, vendor carts, and colorful kiosks purveying food and merchandise.

    You hear a musical heartbeat and lookup as the metal canopy of lights above you explodes with sound and color. When those lights go on, all of the casino and shop lights turn dark. Every night there is a high-tech light-and-laser show (the canopy is equipped with more than 2.1 million lights) enhanced by a concert-hall-quality sound system. It comes toward you and goes past your head at incredible speed.

    The Fremont Street Experience includes "Odyssey: The Illuminating Journey," which travels from the rain forest to the urban jungle, "Dancing in the Street," a musical medley of songs by The Supremes, Smokey Robinson and Aretha Franklin, as well as tributes to Vegas legends, country music and classic rock. New to the lineup are "Area 51," in which earthlings go head-to-head with a fleet of aliens and "The Drop," a psychedelic adventure kicked off by a single drop of water.

    Amazing what electronics can do these days.

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    * Hours of operation: 6 p.m., 7 p.m., 8 p.m., 9 p.m., 10 p.m., 11 p.m. and midnight nightly.

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  • Phone: Phone: (702) 678-5600
  • Directions: 425 Fremont St Las Vegas, NV 89101 Cross Street: North Las Vegas Boulevard More information: * Hours of operation: 6 p.m., 7 p.m., 8 p.m., 9 p.m., 10 p.m., 11 p.m. and midnight nightly.
  • Website: www.vegasexperience.com
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    Fremont Street Experience: Fremont Street Experience
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  • sue_stone
  • By sue_stone on October 18, 2008
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  • Fremont Street Experience - Las Vegas
    Fremont Street Experience
    by sue_stone,
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    Located in the heart of downtown Las Vegas (in other words, not on the Strip) is the amazing Fremont Street Experience. Casino lined Fremont Street has been topped with a 427m long canopy which is home to (borrowed from the website) "Viva Vision, the biggest big screen on the planet. More than 12 million lights in the Viva Vision canopy and 550,000 watts of concert quality sound pumped to speakers throughout the venue produce an incredible array of eye-popping imagery and heart pounding music."

    This captivating sound and light show plays hourly, between dusk and midnight. It is very loud and very bright. Check out the photos to try and get an idea.

    Also along the street are old-style casinos, their facades covered in flashing lights and massive neon signs. There is a large stage where a band was playing loudly. Oh, and there was a motorbike display which involved bikes spinning around inside a metal globe - hard to explain and hard to see from the photo, but at one stage there were three guys on full-size bikes riding around inside the globe, some how managing not to smash into each other.

    This part of town is really worth a look, so jump in a taxi from the Strip and come and spend some time one evening experiencing Fremont Street.

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    Fremont Street Experience: Awesome and its FREE!
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  • Yaqui
  • Updated By Yaqui on July 11, 2008
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  • 4th of July at Freemont Street - Las Vegas
    4th of July at Freemont
    Street
    by Yaqui,
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    Freemont Business owners were really smart to create this venue. This I think has saved the original gambling area. They encase the original Vegas strip with a dome, so at night they can have awesome nightly shows that reflect along the whole length of the covering. It is really awesome to see in person.

    Hours of operation: The show plays from dusk to midnight nightly.

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  • Phone: (702) 678-5777
  • Directions: Downtown Vegas, near the Plaza hotel-casino.
  • Website: http://www.vegasexperience.com/
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    Fremont Street Experience: Fremont Street Experience
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  • bugalugs
  • By bugalugs on September 11, 2005
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  • alien planes! - Las Vegas
    alien planes!
    by bugalugs
    The whole of Fremont Street is now covered with a canopy that measures 1,400 feet and is 90 feet up. Nightly shows are approximately at 8.30pm, 9pm, 10pm, 11pm and midnight (check first to make sure).
    There are different shows and the one we saw was of 'earthlings going head to head with aliens'. There are lots of flashing colours and very loud music and noise, some people may not like this. However I thought it was brilliant and so cleverly done and well worth going to see, on top of all that it is free! What more can you want.

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  • Phone: 800-249-3559
  • Directions: Near to the Plaza Hotel/Casino
  • Website: www.vegasexperience.com
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    Fremont Street Experience: Freemont Street
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  • bugalugs
  • By bugalugs on September 11, 2005
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  • Spaceship - Las Vegas
    Spaceship
    by bugalugs,
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    This is the older part of Las Vegas and as I said in previous tip where it all began. Then I assume that the main Strip started to develop and so Freemont Street sort of got left behind. But with the Viva Vision, sound and light display which is on every night people flock here to see it and its well worth it.
    The theme can be different at each showing.

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  • Phone: 800-249-3559
  • Directions: Near to the Plaza Hotel/Casino
  • Website: www.vegasexperience.com
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    Fremont Street Experience: Fremont Street
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  • bugalugs
  • Updated By bugalugs on September 11, 2005
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  • Fremont Street Experience - Las Vegas
    by bugalugs
    Fremont Street is also has lots of shops, restaurants, cafes, hotels and yes casinos. People try to lure you into their casino giving you strings of free beads, I wonder why they think this would tempt you to enter! There are also street entertainers and musicians.

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  • Phone: 800-249-3559
  • Directions: Near Plaza Hotel//Casino
  • Website: www.vegasexperience.com
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