Aaron Berger, CEO and Executive Director of the Neon Museum, joins BigHead to share the importance of the stories that built Vegas. We also get into why preserving Vegas history is about a lot more than saving old neon signs. We talk about the Mirage and Circus Circus, the upcoming Duck Duck Shed event, and what Aaron thinks is next for Las Vegas as the city continues to change.
Las Vegas is constantly reinventing itself, but what happens to the stories, landmarks, and culture that made this city what it is today?
Aaron Berger, CEO and Executive Director of the Neon Museum, joins BigHead to share the importance of the stories that built Vegas. We also get into why preserving Vegas history is about a lot more than saving old neon signs.
We talk about the Mirage and Circus Circus, the upcoming Duck Duck Shed event, and what Aaron thinks is next for Las Vegas as the city continues to change.
We get into:
- Las Vegas in 1989 when rooms at the Tropicana cost $9 a night
- The Neon Museum’s expanding mission
- The Moulin Rouge sign & the civil rights movement in Vegas
- Vegas Voices and the effort to preserve personal stories
- Deciding which signs, artifacts, and pieces of Vegas history to save
- What happened to pieces of the Mirage
- Why Las Vegas architecture deserves more recognition
- Duck Duck Shed
- Reinvention in Vegas
- Plans for expansion and relocation
- Hidden details in Vegas you might be missing
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