Fabulous Las Vegas is a visual tour of the most important decade in the history of America's most hedonistic town. Forget today's gigantic resort hotels for just a moment and look back to the formative years, when hotels were low and sprawling, when every entertainer who hit the big time hit Vegas, when every American wanted to escape the postwar doldrums and luxuriate in some real-life make-believe. This is the Vegas that was; the precursor to the Vegas that now is - one of the strangest places on Earth.