Is this not awesome? Photo of the Dunes sign in 1983. From a totally fun Vegas photoset recently posted by Matt H. (who I don't know but I read his blog Scrubbles and you should too) He took the pics when he was 13 and his father took him along on a business trip to Las Vegas.
Damn. How cool is that? My first trip to Vegas wasn't until a bit later but a bunch of the stuff in those '83 photos I remember being there, including the Sands and those murals from Caesars. I don't remember whether the Dunes was still there or not. Which is sad but I suppose I need to keep a few brain cells free to remember where I left my keys.
And, hey, who knew that Siegfried and Roy used to perform at the Frontier.