A 1967 Volkswagen Squareback station wagon driving on a desert highway towards Las Vegas, Nevada. The road approaching Las Vegas as seen from a moving car. Highway billboard sign for The Dunes Hotel (Bellagio 3600 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89109, United States) in Las Vegas. A sultan mascot is on display on The Dunes Hotel billboard. The Volkswagen Squareback station wagon drives on Las Vegas Blvd. Caesar's Palace sign. Sign for Thoroughly Modern Minsky Burlesque starring Anni Anderson. Neon sign for The Sands casino. Cars passing by the Sundown Motel in Las Vegas. Four men get out of the blue Volkswagen Squareback station wagon after arriving at the Sundown Motel. Men pick up their duffel bags from the opened front hood of the Volkswagen car. A man who got keys from the office joins his friends.
Pedestrians cross a road in downtown Las Vegas at night. Various images of neon signsmontage over four men looking around and pointing. Men playing golf at a golf course. Tired young men resting inside their motel room. Man looks at centerfold of girly magazine. Tired young men leaving motel room to drive home. Men get into a blue 1967 Volkswagen Squareback station wagon. Tired driver checks his watch before driving. A tire blowout on Volkswagen Squareback station wagon while driving on desert highway.
View of traffic on street in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada. Hotels and motels along road including sign for "City Center Motel". Scene of destruction at the motel, where a man had comitted suicide by driving into the City Center Motel in Las Vegas, Nevada. 6 persons were killed and 12 injured in the ensuing explosion. View of the damaged City Center Motel building. Message " We accept credit cards. Relax in Comfort" written on sign outside the building.
American singer Elvis Presley marries actress Priscilla Ann Beaulieu at the Aladdin Hotel (3667 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89109, United States) in Las Vegas, Nevada. The newlywed couple Elvis and Priscilla cutting their wedding cake during their wedding breakfast reception. The wedding cake is made of yellow sponge, filled with apricot marmalade and kirsch-flavored Bavarian cream. Photographers taking photographs. Elvis and Priscilla kiss each other. Priscilla proudly shows her diamond wedding ring, a three-and-a-half-carat diamond encircled by 20 smaller, removable diamonds.
A young man whistles while combing his hair. An African-American man playfully whips his friend with a towel. Black man puts on a yellow buttoned shirt while talking to his friends. A young man with a Playboy magazine exclaims, "hey come on let's find some girls!" Another responds, "no use dropping all our loot on the dolls." A third offers, "I'm going home rich...I can feel it." The four men discussing plans for the evening as they leave. A blond man emerges from the bathroom, preening his hair, noting, “I gotta look pretty, don’t I?” Point of view from rear seat of car driving in Las Vegas at night. Men talking inside the car. Neon sign reads “… Steak in Town Cattlemans $4.95 Top o’ the Mint”. View of Fremont Street, Las Vegas, as seen from a moving car. Montage of casino signs such as Stardust, Four Queens, and Golden Nugget in Las Vegas on Fremont Street. Four men enter the Golden Nugget Casino Hotel (129 E Fremont St, Las Vegas, NV 89101, United States). Men at table clapping during a show. Montage of casino signs including the California Club casino, Dunes, and Pioneer Club. Men clapping while sitting on bar stools. Las Vegas signs New Frontier Hotel and Silver Slipper Casino. Young man playing blackjack grimaces after losing. Young man playing a slot machine. “C’mon baby pay off for papa!” he exclaims while pulling the lever on a slot machine. Close up of only only two coins in hand from slot machine. Young man blowing on dice before throwing them, and then sighing after coming up short in craps game. Camera zoom in on dice.
Four women, three white and one black, drink together at a club in the 1960s. A group of men notice the four women in the club. Men dancing with the women together on the dance floor. African-American couple dancing. A man wackily dances with a woman. Legs of dancers on 1960s dance floor. Young men and women having fun on the 1960s dance floor of a club. Mixed race black and white couple dancing 1960s dance floor. A man with his arm over a woman sitting in booth. Man rubs two dice on his hands before throwing them on a craps table. Man frustrated to see dice of three on craps table. Narrator notes, "sometimes you win, and sometimes you lose."