Gov. Charles
Russell and Dwight
Eisenhower at
McCarran Field,
circa 1952.
Richard Burton and
Elizabeth Taylor
begin a Vegas
getaway in 1969.
Beatlemania hits
Sin City when
the Fab Four
arrive in 1964.
PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF LAS VEGAS NEWS BUREAU (EISENHOWER, BEATLES, BURTON AND TAYLOR),
JERRY ABBOTT/LAS VEGAS NEWS BUREAU (BERNSTEIN)
A bevy of
cowgirls greets
Leonard
Bernstein and
the New York
Philharmonic
in 1960.
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