Open 1966–2006 · This is a non-commercial memorial. Nothing here is for sale.

The Coney Island of Las Vegas

Hotel · Casino - 3750 Las Vegas Blvd South, between Monte Carlo and Bellagio

A visitor in a blue sweatshirt and sunglasses posing outside the Boardwalk, with hedges and the casino frontage behind him. Full-size photograph

Show & Tell.

You were part of the place.

Photographs and memories from the people who stayed here, worked here, and still remember.

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Outside the Boardwalk.Guest photograph via Yelp · Date unconfirmed

From Todd Beving’s album

1 photograph

Early light.
First Vegas visits.

“I stayed at this hotel on a couple of my very first Vegas visits.”

Todd took this photograph of the southeast entrance from Las Vegas Boulevard in the early morning, around 2003.

Todd Beving

Shared September 2026. Date and location from Todd’s accompanying note.

Early morning sunlight on a gold sculpted column at the Boardwalk’s southeast entrance, with part of the Fujiyama sign beside it. Full-size photograph
Early light at the southeast entrance.Photograph © Todd Beving · c. 2003 · Shared with permission

From Patrick Lellieu’s album

4 photographs
Holiday Inn Casino Boardwalk souvenir magnet, with its shaped tower, carnival frontage and raised lettering.
Courtesy of Patrick LellieuAI cutout · Original ↗

A request for a rate.
A life together.

“I actually met my wife through the Boardwalk.”

Patrick was a Holiday Inn front desk manager in Belgium. She was the front desk manager at the Holiday Inn Boardwalk. Looking for an employee rate, he messaged her through Holidex, the hotel network he remembers as their intranet.

“Almost 30 years later and we are still married.”

Patrick Lellieu

His recollection, shared August 2026.

And the employee rate?
Employee rates back then were $15 actually…Patrick, in his follow-up. A remembered employee rate.

A guest beside the hotel room window, with New York-New York visible beyond the glass and red curtains. A faint vertical camera stamp at lower left reads 9 17 ’97. Full-size photograph
A moment by the window.Courtesy of Patrick Lellieu · Camera-stamped September 17, 1997
New York-New-York and Monte Carlo beyond the Boardwalk’s rooftop, with a camera date stamp reading 9 17 ’97 at lower right. Full-size photograph
New York-New York and Monte Carlo from the Boardwalk.Courtesy of Patrick Lellieu · Camera-stamped September 17, 1997
The Holiday Inn Casino Boardwalk tower in daylight, with pedestrians, a parking sign, palms and the white roller coaster facade. Full-size photograph
The tower and carnival frontage.Courtesy of Patrick Lellieu · Date unconfirmed
THE ROOM PHOTOGRAPHS

September 17, 1997.

The window portrait and the view of New York-New York and Monte Carlo both carry this camera date. The date of the separate tower and carnival-frontage photograph remains unconfirmed.

Camera stamps read from the two room photographs. Patrick describes the room as a southeast corner room.

Thank you, Patrick, for the photographs and the story that came with them.

About these photographs & their dates

All four original images were shared by Patrick Lellieu with permission to display them with full credit. “Courtesy of” records his contribution without assuming he personally took every photograph. The room views are described in his email as southeast corner views. The person at the window is not named or identified here.

Both room photographs carry camera stamps reading 9 17 ’97. September 17, 1997 is the date printed by the camera, not an independently verified shutter date. The stamp on the window portrait runs vertically along the lower-left edge; the skyline photograph’s stamp is at the lower right.

The tower photograph’s date remains unconfirmed. Its scan filename contains 1992, but the completed Dreamland Tower shown here opened in 1996. The filename is not used as a photograph date.

The three scans are shown in full and have not been retouched or restored. The souvenir magnet is displayed as an AI-isolated cutout with its countertop background removed. Click the magnet to open the complete original photograph, converted from the supplied HEIC for browser viewing.

There is room in the album

What did
you keep?

A snapshot from a night out. A staff photograph. A room key. Something still tucked in a drawer. It doesn’t have to show the whole building to bring part of it back.

Dear Boardwalk,

If you have a photograph or keepsake to share, write to Tibor. Tell him what you remember, roughly when it was taken, and how you would like to be credited.

Please include whether you took the photograph or know who did, and whether you give permission for it to appear here. Approximate dates are welcome.

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Your credit stays with your contribution. Recollections stay in your voice. For a correction, a different credit, or removal, write to Tibor.