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NAB Insider from Radio magazine - Mar 31, 2009

Mar 31, 2009 10:00 AM


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Las Vegas Restaurants
Need to grab a bite near the convention center? Try one of these great restaurants within walking distance.

Envy Steakhouse
3400 Paradise Road, Las Vegas, NV 89169
702-784-5716ý
Breakfast: 6:30 a.m. - 11 a.m. Daily Menu
Lunch: 11 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Daily Menu
Dinner: 5 p.m. - 10 p.m. Sunday – Thursday; 5 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. Friday – Saturday Menu
Brunch: 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Sunday

Piero's Las Vegas Italian Restaurant
355 Convention Center Dr., Las Vegas, NV 89109
702-369-2305ý
5:30 p.m. - 10 p.m. Menu

Benihana
3000 Paradise Road, Las Vegas, NV 89109
702-732-5334
5 p.m. - 11 p.m. Monday – Sunday Menu

Casa Nicola
In Las Vegas Hilton
3000 Paradise Road, Las Vegas, NV 89109
702-732-5755
5:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday

New Restaurant!
Delmonico Steakhouse
Inside The Venetian
3355 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Las Vegas, NV 89109
702 414 3737
Lunch: 11:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. Monday – Sunday Menu
Dinner: 5 p.m. - 10 p.m. Sunday - Thursday; 5 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. Friday – Saturday Menu

Did You Know?

How did you do?
Las Vegas timeline 1996-1998:

  • 1996 - The $72 million, 1,100-acre Las Vegas motor speedway with tracks for drag, stock car and formula car races opens.
  • 1996 - Stratosphere Tower, the tallest free-standing observation tower in the U.S. and the tallest structure west of the Mississippi river, opens.
  • 1996 - Work is completed on the Desert Inn Road arterial, creating the first tunnel under the Las Vegas strip.
  • 1996 - Wayne Newton celebrates 25,000th Las Vegas performance. Siegfried and Roy celebrate 15,000th Las Vegas performance.
  • 1997 - The Forum Shops at Caesars opened 35 new shops, stores and restaurants in a 276,000-square-foot expansion. Growth doubles the size of the upscale shopping mall adjacent to Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas strip.
  • 1997 - The first non-stop scheduled commercial flight from Frankfurt-mein international airport in Germany lands May 7 with 215 passengers at McCarran International Airport.
  • 1997 - Coca Cola Co. opens its World of Coca Cola store in the showcase mall marked by a 100-foot-tall glass Coca Cola bottle.
  • 1997 - New York-New York Hotel Casino opens on the Las Vegas strip. More than 100,000 people a day visit the new resort during the casino's first days in operation.
  • 1998 - Annual gross gaming revenue in Nevada hits the $8.1 billion mark.
  • 1998 - A 66-year-old Las Vegas resident hits a $27.58 million progressive megabucks jackpot at the Palace Station Hotel Casino.
  • 1998 - Las Vegas Convention Ccenter opens an expansion, boosting its total space to 1.9 million square feet.
  • 1998 - "Star Trek: The Experience" opens Jan. 4 at the Las Vegas Hilton. The attraction is now closed.



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