Tourists find the Las Vegas Strip remade for its turn hosting Formula One
The famous fountains at the Bellagio won't be very visible this week amid the roar of Formula One racing on the Las Vegas Strip, and gondoliers won't be serenading tourists at the Venetian resort.
“Fountains have been shut off, canals drained, streets closed or harder to navigate,” Michael Green, a University of Nevada, Las Vegas history professor, said after six months of road work and temporary grandstand construction for some of the most monied spectators in sports. “What are they calling it? Stripmageddon? It is clearly causing a lot of uproar.”
“But this is a different kind of big event,” said Green, who remembers two Grand Prix races held 42 years ago at . “We’re talking about billionaires from around the world. They’re going
