Las Vegas: University District
Cafe Rainbow, circa 1993. One of many coffeehouses in the University District that disappeared by the end of the 1990s. Photo by Pj Perez
History
University of Nevada, Las Vegas has come a long way since its beginnings as Nevada Southern, the regional extension of the University of Nevada in Reno, Nev. Celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2007, the UNLV campus is now home to 28,000 students, 6,000 faculty members and facilities spread across 350 acres.
The neighborhood surrounding the campus, however, has seen its share of massive changes over that 50-year history. There was no neighborhood to speak of when the first buildings on Maryland Parkway appeared in the midst of the blank, desert landscape. But by the late 1960s, Maryland Parkway was a major thoroughfare on the east side of the Las Vegas Strip, and some of the oldest retail and residential buildings in the city can still be found along the parkway… READ MORE
Locations
Thomas & Mack Center/Cox Pavilion
Freakin’ Frog
Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery
Clark County Library
Photo Galleries
Bill Clinton and Harry Reid at Cox Pavilion, Aug. 18, 2008
Japanese Art Will Entertain You!!, Sept. 8, 2006