Jan 28 2009
Lights Out on Las Vegas Strip?
Accompanied by the obligatory showgirls, Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman joined other city officials at the Welcome to Las Vegas sign today to promote the World Wildlife Fund’s Earth Hour campaign.
Businesses and individuals nationwide are being asked to turn of the lights for one hour on March 28 starting at 8:30 pm.
Assuming that Strip casinos sign off on the deal – not at all a done deal at this point – it will mark the 7th time in history that the Strip has gone dark. It most recently happened on June 11, 2004 when the city’s lights were dimmed for three minutes immediately following the funeral of President Ronald Reagan.
The first time the Strip cut off the lights was in 1963 after President Kennedy’s assassination. Similar tributes occurred following the deaths of noted entertainers Dean Martin (1987), Sammy Davis, Jr. (1990), George Burns (1996) and ol’ Blue Eyes himself, Frank Sinatra (1998).
