Never-Before-Seen Photos of the Glory Days of Las Vegas

Howdy Podner

Anyone who visited the Pioneer Club was greeted by this cigarette-smoking cowboy named Vegas Vic. The sign was legendary and still around to this day, even though the Pioneer Club is not. It was known as Howdy Podner (because that’s how he would say “partner”). At the Pioneer Club, gambling was available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Advertisement

Next Page →

The More You Know

  • Your heart beats 100,000 times a day.
  • All the Professors in Pokemon have been named after trees.
  • A species of squid has been observed to leap from the ocean by using pressurized water jets to achieve flight, going as far as 98 feet!
  • The first commercial airplane flight lasted 23 minutes.
Next Page →