Comments on: Sunrise Manor

By: MaryAnn

MaryAnn — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:10:46 +0000

The views from there are amazing! And the houses are so unique and different, very creative homeowners. The cacti are so big and tall in front of some of those homes. I guess that makes sense since it is the desert, lol.

By: Rick Gerlock

Rick Gerlock — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:15:57 +0000

That’s right you varmit

By: Disco Stu

Disco Stu — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:52:43 +0000

You caught “horny toads”? What, did you grown up with Yosemite Sam?

By: Rick Gerlock

Rick Gerlock — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:37:18 +0000

I grew up on Hollywood and Turtle Hill between Stewart and Charleston back in the late 1980’s- early 1990’s. It was a lot of fun to ride 3 wheeler ATV’s around the desert after school, climb Sunrise (Frenchman) Mt (easy to climb as you can walk up it for the most part), catch “horny toads”, and just explore the desert. It was like living in the middle of the Mojave desert but still having the amenities of Las Vegas. It really seemed like it’s own little world, helped by the fact there is no freeway access for miles, which holds it back now from being a desirable location in my opinion. It takes a minimum of 30 minutes to get anywhere in town from there and if you plan on going to the far west side plan on almost an hour 1 way, back then a neighbor of mine attended Meadows private school that drive today that would be a 2 hr daily commute then it was 25-40min. Also as you mentioned go down the hill and your in da hood, it was like that even back then when I first moved to town and we lived behind Pistol Pete’s Pizza on Nellis and Stewart.
Anyway thanks for the post and bringing back some memories. In honor of the rubbers you found here’s a short list of things I found in the desert out there growing up- numerous newspaper dispensers with the coin area busted out, stacks upon stacks of the free porn rags that advertised for hookers, a box full of over 100 Hustlers, Playboys and other random porn mags, a very large dead horse, several dead dogs some with bullet wounds, a bum who lived in a cave on the mountain who would make a daily walk to the Smith’s you pictured to panhandle, and a gun.
P.S. Governator did indeed have a place up there

By: tully

tully — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:47:55 +0000

LMAO—-made me think of boobs also. But in LV, that sort of house fits in. The Victorian and Tudor types, plus the Pagoda House seemed the most fanciful and eccentric for the desert.
But absolutely none of them look like they were built by Pulte, KB Homes, etc., and that’s what makes it great.

By: Troy in Las Vegas

Troy in Las Vegas — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:38:29 +0000

When I first moved to Las Vegas I stayed with a friend in his house in Sunrise. One of the neighbors was the man who owns the “DeepThroat” video series as well as a popular local strip club.
It was nice living there. My friend’s house was beautiful and I would often go up on the roof to see the great view of the valley.

By: MattleyCrue

MattleyCrue — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:23:32 +0000

Man the Chinese folk in that picture must really love Imperial Palace!

By: hilorain

hilorain — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:58:50 +0000

Hey Rex,

Another great and really interesting presentation of the LV neighborhood. Great photos too.

You clarified a point about the valley aspect I kept hearing/reading about and was always confused, but your explanation of the dip and the rise on the east side helped me understand a little better. And have to agree that the view is fantastic.

Home designs certainly are not boring, nor monotonous.

Keep up this aspect of your blogging, we are really enjoying them…….

…hr

By: thomas coe

thomas coe — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:05:05 +0000

dude rex, if you do that….i’ll give ya a dollar!

cool photos and thanks for the info. we’re renting a car for our next trip out to vegas in march, so we now have something else to do….like there isn’t already enough to do in vegas! thanks

By: Rex

Rex — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:48:52 +0000

Thanks,

Personally, I’m thinking of getting that dual-dome house and adding nipples to the top of each one.