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Atomic Tourism in 1950s Las Vegas
The atomic tests were a huge crowd draw and inspired pop-culture
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5 min readSep 12, 2020
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In the 1920’s Las Vegas was not the same flashy tourist magnet that it is today. The economic bust and disillusionment from failures at social reform led to a population decline of nearly one-fourth. Nevada had degenerated into a “beautiful desert of buried…