The Las Vegas Strip is where most of Sin City’s action happens. It a four-mile long strip of wide street where there are probably more lighting strips and bulbs than anywhere else on earth. It’s really only a part of Las Vegas Boulevard South, but most people assume it is its own boss and not part of anything. It’s easy to see why.

Designated an All-American Road, incredibly, only a part of the Strip is actually inside the city limits of Las Vegas, and that part is the area lying to the north of Sahara Avenue. That begs the question, where does the part south of Sahara Avenue belong to? Well, it belongs to the unincorporated Township of Paradise and it lies in Clark County.

So, how di the Strip get its name? It was named after Sunset Strip apparently, by a policeman. Yes, policeman Guy McAfee first coined the phrase and it has stuck. The first casino to be built there is probably not the Pair-o-Dice Club, which went up on Highway 91 in 1931. It was the first casino in the general area, but the El Rancho Vegas, which opened in 1941, was the first one to be built on what is today considered the Strip.

The Las vegas Strip is not the world’s largest gambling center, however. But it is the second largest to be found on the globe, and the way things are going, it may yet be the biggest someday. But that doesn’t really matter, for once you get on the Strip, you know you are in heaven!