New Lost Vegas
The New York, New York hotel in Las Vegas. Both somehow fitting, and a little disconnected at the same time…
New Coca-Cola Sign
This crusty old metal Coca-Cola sign was something I found laying in the dust of East Las Vegas. There’s a little paint still hanging on, but for the most part it’s camouflaged against the desert floor.
Manhattan Mine Elevator
Not a tower, exactly… it looks more like an elevator that lowered miners underground. As you approach it, you hear the distinct trickle of water off to your right!
The elevator can wait. Moving a little faster towards the source of the weak-but-lovely gurgling sound, you barrel through some underbrush and spot a rusty old pipe sticking out of the canyon wall, dripping what looks like clean water from some hidden, underground source.
The downhill runoff looks pretty harsh, but you hold your canteen under the pipe for a few minutes before you toss in your last water purifier tablet.
It doesn’t take long to make the sweet, cool water taste a little bizarre but whatever; it’s so worth avoiding dysentery. After a nice couple of pulls from the canteen, you fill it the rest of the way up. Not bad!
There’s still that ruined old building on the cliffside nearby, or you can grab a little more water and head out of Manhattan, Nevada.
Tiny Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas
New York, New York. In Las Vegas, with a tiny Eiffel Tower among other towering mini-replicas of other famous places. So strange!
Vegas Treasure Hunt
This is a pretty old snapshot I took on a Vegas bus, I believe 2001. I enjoyed the double-exposure created from the interior of the bus and the looming Treasure Island Casino on the near horizon.
Buried in Luning
You’ve noticed this same thing happening around the area; these half-buried wooden structures that look like they were once cabins, maybe? But now it’s hard to tell so many years later.
So you step closer to the old door frame in order to take a better look inside. The gravel leading in suddenly gives way and you lose your footing, slipping through the door! Broken glass and gravel, dust and small rocks follow you inside the little room as you scramble to catch a foothold… but this cat litter of doom is as fast as you are!
You start getting panicked. Death by little landslide!?
After several cough-filled seconds, the dust flow slows to a mild torrent and you finally get some leverage.
There are tumbleweeds piled up in every corner of this small room, but you start to realize that the bottom is somehow deeper than the few boards of a “floor” that’s barely keeping you from falling further. Holy crap! It’s unreal that you haven’t crashed through by now!
Maybe you should get the heck out of here and run away. There’s still that tiny Fort over by your vehicle… or you can just bail on this place altogether, adventurer.
Totally up to you, just get out of here.
Manhattan Mining Ruins
You stop for a second and wonder just what the heck was this building? It’s in close proximity to some mines, so it probably worked as some form of support for the miners or the facility itself. But all you can really think about is finding water. Looks like there’s a tower of some kind nearby.
You can also just get out of Manhattan altogether and head back down towards the valley again.
Luning Bank
From this angle you can see the reinforced doors better, which starkly contrast the collapsed mess of a roof and supporting walls.
You decide to look closer look at the front doors.