Day 6 Clark County Museum and Quad Car Collection

So Wednesday we were up early and headed to the Clark County Museum in Henderson. This museum is run by Mark Hall-Patton. He can be seen on Pawn Stars as a regular history expert. We had been to this museum before; it is actually very well done.  

They have a row of houses each representing a place in time of Clark Counties history.

 The fifties house had the tricycle that was restored on American Restoration

This was from the 40’s house, very cool refrigerator 
and cook stove.

See if you can figure out what this door was used for built into the wall

 between the dining room and the living room.

It was used to store card tables in, for your weekly bridge games

 or other card games. Good use of the wide walls.

This side table was made entirely of used dice from a local casino.

This is the original Candlelight Wedding Chapel that used to be on Las Vegas Blvd. It holds the record for having 425 Weddings in one day.  1 in every 8 weddings that take place in the USA, happen in Vegas.

This is the air raid siren that was also restored on American Restoration.

This is the Senate Chair of Pat McCarren who was a senator in Nevada and who McCarren Airport is named after. This was purchased by the Pawn Shop and loaned to the Museum.

After the museum we headed down to the strip to go for supper and see the car collection at the Quad. There are lots of cars to see, I found the most interesting was a Rolls Royce that was built for a Maharaja in India to specifically hunt Bengal Tigers. You can see the guns mounted in the back. Talk about being ostentatious, can’t use a jeep like regular people, you have to have a Rolls Royce. 

The other was an original Shelby.  The price tag on this one was for over a million dollars.

After the Quad we wandered down the strip to the new casinos at the Aria, the Mandarin and Crystals. None of these were finished the last time we were here.  The Crystals has a exhibition of Liberace memorabilia. It seems quite unbelievable that he could actually wear these items never mind perform in them.

This one is lined is sable and weighs around 80 pounds. The suit is made of gabardine but completely covered in sequins, rhinestones and crystals. 

These are crystals that are hung all the way up a couple of floors and enclose a bar in the middle of the casino. It is just ropes and ropes of crystals. I guess it is supposed to look like a giant chandelier