Found Slide. July 1983. Fremont Street. No canopy. No phones. No one filming themselves walking. Just a desert town that decided to wage war on the dark with incandescent bulbs and won. The Golden Nugget still looked like a gold-rush hallucination someone wrapped in a million light bulbs. Vegas Vic is waving at actual pedestrians. A Cadillac the length of a studio apartment idles at the curb. The sign promises the most frequent slot payoffs on Earth, which in 1983 was still a sentence you could almost take at face value. Steve Wynn already owned the place. The rococo neon came down the following year. Twelve years after this frame they roofed the whole street and called it an Experience. This is what the place looked like when the lights were still analog and you had to stand there to see them. The simulation was about to get a graphics update. Some of us liked the old build.