1962 development of Mid Century modern neighborhood PARADISE PALMS - Las Vegas Nevada 

My Grandmother was one of the sales team for Paradise Palms: that’s her in the video with the red hair ‘playing ‘ the realtor. My Mom is the model/buyer in this movie . My Mom is still alive and still lives in Las Vegas but not in Paradise Palms. We had 2 homes on Ottawa Drive. One of the homes is in this video . My grandparents also owned a home. My Dad ( also still alive and living with me) says he paid 32,000k for that first home . Dad was the largest pool builder in Nevada for many years and we had a beautiful pool in both backyards. Sonny Liston lived ( and died ) on our street. The Sahara Hotel owned the home just across the street and Buddy Hackett and other famous comedians of the day stayed in that home. In the video they call The golf course the Stardust course but I always remember it being called the Sahara Nevada golf course . The elementary school; Ruby S Thomas was recently torn down. The junior high: William Orr was a Short walk from our house. Such an idyllic place to grow up. Finding this video has been so wonderful for our whole Family . Thank you for posting it.

Dan Saxon Palmer of Palmer & Krisel is my dad. I was born in 1961, so a year before this promotional video. It's fun to see what he was working on when I was born. And, with Father's Day this Sunday, an unexpected look into his life and times. Thank you!

That metal slide in the Las Vegas summer is what childhood memories are made of.

I'm sold. Now I just need to rev up my time machine to go back to 1962 to buy one of those units. 😀 This film reminds me of the 1961 Bob Hope movie, Bachelor In Paradise. Bob plays a book author who moves into such a brand new community (in california) called Paradise Village to collect research material for his new book about wives living in suburbia. The interior, furnishings, decorations and styles of the real life houses in this film very much resembles the interiors of the fake movie set houses in the Bob Hope movie.

That slide in the park must have been fun in 100 plus degree weather

My house was also built in 1962, and purchased for 19,200. It's also a modern ranch and is worth 400,000 today.

Genuine tile.

What a gem. I grew up in Paradise Palms and still have my childhood home there. It was great to see them displayed here in all their glory!

I owned one of those houses in the 1980's. The Stardust no longer owned the golf course by that time though. But I soon learned living that close to a golf course has it's down side. We'd occasionally get errant golf balls ricocheting off the patio furniture. And one time I lost one of my sliding glass doors due to a direct hit. And the commenters below are right about how hot a sliding board can get in the Vegas sun. We used to keep an oven mitt next to our metal garbage cans because you could literally burn your hand trying to pick the lid up on a summer afternoon. These days I prefer the milder climate along the beach in L.A.

My first home in Las Vegas in 1970 was $13,500 3 bed 1 bath a sort of a dinning room near Stewart and Lamb... that gives you an idea of how expensive Paradise Palms was in '62... I was 22 and in the Air force... used my VA loan... $1 down!! Payments $156/mo. Paradise Palms was the top pf the line in those days... Johnnie Carson had a home in there.

Beautifully designed swimming pool.

Gorgeous. I’d happily move into one of those homes today especially for “the oven that every girl dreams about …… “those hot points really get me going. No, seriously I love mid century.

Wonderful glimpse into the past. Thank you for saving and restoring!

I would love to go back in time to enjoy it as it was - all brand new!!!!!

When everything in Mid-Century Vegas, was 'shiny and new'. My god. Wish i could go back. My fam didn't arrive there till '64....but it would have all still looked just like this. We ended up in McNeil, off Oakey and Rancho. Great neighborhood as well. Wide streets and that area is 'Still!...kept it's M-C Charm. Our old house on Colanthe, been remodeled a few times since we left it in late '73.....but the prices now are just beyond ridiculous. My dad bought it in 1968, for around $35K. It now lists for over Half a Million. I miss this old, clean, uncluttered LV.

I grew up in Truesdale. My parents had it built in '61, my birth year. The kitchen was all Hotpoint

Wall-to-wall carpeting! Woohoo!😂 I absolutely love mid-century houses

Dishwasher in 1962 must have been heaven.

The address of the home they walk into is 3344 Dakota Way. The front steps are the same to this day as they were then.

4:02 I can’t believe people fell for ductless range hoods … what a complete and utter scam. Our house from 1963 had an exhaust fan built into the exterior wall right above the range that vented directly outside … nothing like it.

Classic. Cool Man Cool....

This was so interesting to watch and to have the son of Dan Saxon Palmer one of the developers of this project respond is amazing.

They had me with the pool! SOLD lol

I guess it would be another six years before the Boulevard Mall was built, so that would explain the absence of it being shown. When I moved to Las Vegas in 1974, this neighborhood and the surrounding area was one of the nicest parts of town. Fifty years have been hard on it.

If this doesn’t sell you on Paradise Palms, I don’t know what will. You’re probably just square.

Well dressed people without tattoos and metal in their faces

The only MCM design that I got excited about is the golf cart. I hope someone kept hold of at least One!!

WE had those sliding glass shower doors just like that!

I love how these announcers made everything sound..."New and Exciting"....😂

Those Hotpoint machines (and all the other mid-century appliances) will live forever.

Mom sure has a pleasing and inviting figure. Oh, to live in the '60s!

This is great to see. Love all the interiors in these homes. My only issue would have been the homeowners association. After experiencing those in condos and homes in South Florida, I wouldn't want to deal with those again.

The tiny kitchen sends me

I keep expecting Vault Boy to slide by, giving his trademark thumbs up and grin!

GENUINE TILE !!!? OMG :)

BEEN in a few of these homes -amazing designs yet i recall one with the entire slab sinking about a foot as well as just not kept up too well . also did some handyman stuff for a real creepy dude "smiley face man" i called him house had wall to wall smiley faces in/out he sold mopeds out of craigslist lol yep reminded me of cross between john wayne gacy and liberace . i didnr go for any of his subtle "suggestions" so the handyman work suddenly disappeared ! lol

Our neighborhood, Torrey Pines and Alta, were General Electric All Electric Homes. They even put bronze medallions in the side walk in front of every house saying this.

Just before our country hit the shitter!

Back then the working class could easily afford a well designed, well located home in a clean safe neighborhood. We should all be asking ourselves what happen to reduce our quality of life.

Amazing, nostalgic video of a bit of Vegas history! Hard to believe you could buy a country club home for 20k lol. Great video 👍

Oh wow, excellent Markum.

I wonder what it costs to heat and cool those homes today. My grandparent's bought a very similar home here in California around 1964 (all Hotpoint appliances - almost identical - and Rheem forced air heater - no air conditioning as it's the SF Bay Area). The home had absolutely not one shred of insulation. You could hear everything that went on in the neighborhood and the heater was always on if it was cold.

Thank you!

Wish i could go back then

sooooo charming!

lol "plan-oramic" love it!!!

There are many differences between homes today and those of the '60s - but the one that stands out the most to me is the way all the windows are covered in heavy drapery . . vs . . today the 'openness' you feel with as many un-covered windows as possible is a gr8 selling point.

K maybe because I'm obsessed with mid century this. But I wish I could live there when it was new

The Summerlin of the 60s, 70s, they need to recover this part of the city like they are doing for downtown las Vegas

4:20 That dishwasher almost looks like it's from today.

Love how the playground was built with safety in mind... that playground was a death trap in retrospect. Hysterical. Otherwise... wow! I'd love to live there today.

20 thousand!!!!! Wow, let that sink in!😏

How nice of that dad to take his daughter house shopping. The lucky little kids who live here will burn their backsides on that metal slide. The entry to the shower looks like a fall hazard.

Thank goodness it has been rediscovered. It was a slum with a pga course, for a long time.

Many confuse the prices then with today's earned incomes. Those $30,000 homes and even the $20-25,000 homes were beyond the reach of many with their earned incomes. People were not making in today's $ amounts, even though they were making by regulations and by the market value of their skill levels. The $ valuation was different then today's and people's income were in accordance to that.

That safe playground made of concrete and steel is very familiar to me.

I was not aware that every girl dreams of a HotPoint kitchen. Thankfully I was born 6 years later.

Between 1:09 and 1:25 is clearly seen the house at 3343 Dakota Way in Paradise palm in las Vegas and the view would have to be from the display house at 3315 Dakota Way . the front steps still visible on google earth.

This neighborhood looks lovely, and an incredible value. I am, however, just a little concerned about the extra $20.00 per month for an in-ground pool, that seems like alot of money for a cement pond.

Amazing MCM architecture for 20-40 grand... Where do I sign? Wish I could time travel.

I can’t believe they had marble counter tops. I’ve never seen that in a mcm bathroom

Great blast from the past. I love these 60's narrated videos. What are the main roads that boardered this development?

I miss the proper-speech and how they dressed....

thanks to the Hoover Dam

All that for $20k !

I wonder what it looks like now. 😊❤

I thought the bedroom looked like a Howard Johnson hotel room

American DREAM!❤

This subdivision is the shiznit.

They really leaned hard on orange in interior design, didn't they? And how did they light those interiors, with car headlights?

Paradise Palms started out nice with great architecture. Unfortunately, the community lacked sufficient deed restrictions that allowed the homes to be neglected, molested and bastardized beyond recognition.

Dude looks old enough to be her father

Hey, I saw a tree.

I grew up then in a tiny 3 bedroom rambler. That orange and brown and avocado green was awful to me. Shag carpet makes me triggered as I had to vacuum that stuff and got yelled at when it got stuck in vacuum cleaner. 😂😂😂😂. But this is fun to watch. This would be for upper middle class.

Wow , I live here in Vegas now.....where was this? Was this in the 'Paradise" area that stands today next to the Strip? Are they rebuilding in that area? Well, they are building everywhere now here in Vegas....each vacant lot you drive by now has some construction going on...

They mentioned there was a recreation director to coach your youngster, if your youngster was a boy that is. Only boys played organized sports back then. Girls did ballet or cheerleading. Times have changed a lot since then, right, Caitlin Clark?

what is on that lady's head?

This on Maryland pkwy?

Not that much has changed in the process when you go purchase a new build in a master planned community in 2024. We just did this process for North River Ranch in Parrish Florida, near Tampa and Sarasota. It’s incredible that we still live in a country that is growing with tons of new communities still being built. God Bless America 🇺🇸 and the beautiful new homes that are being built are really gorgeous. The community we selected will have over 9,000 new homes with 4 different builders, and multiple phases. Nice mix of young families and retirees coming from up north and west. Homes start in the $400,000’s.

What is paradise palms like today?

$40 k for a golf course estate!

Where is this place? Is it still around

What remains today?

I'm sure those women slipped into their flats after filming!

Is it intolerable hot in the summer?

Didn't know dishwashers were around since the early 60's

What every girl dreams of "a magnificent, all electric, Hot Point kitchen"......LOL The home's finishes are hideous! I'm sure they were considered hot back then.

What was affordable back then, is very much NOT today.

GOSH PEOPLE ARE NEVER BRIGHTER then The dimmist Wick

Low ceilings

Didn’t show any butterfly roofs, present day Seneca, Pawnee & Ottawa streets have a #.

ALSO WHEN YOU GET OLD don't be dumb

We got a telegram from Miss Hawiginnns " Mr. Tudball said " It ittt ha it a looks a swingnnnn swank to me . and he wants a one bedroom .

I thought I saw a black kid in the play yard ? Can you tell us more about the deed restrictions? I am asking for a friend.

Now in 2024, this is considered “The Hood”

Madness. No trees, too hot....I doubt you'd feel refreshed by that pool in June July or August. Give me 4 seasons and real trees. Yikes!

I do hope it's "restricted." 🙄

$20K 1962 = $207K today. Very affordable! 3344 Dakota Way, Palm Springs…. See it now on google maps. Too bad they weren’t all Eichler homes. Please tell me the man is her father, right? 0R Eeew!

The same Color scheme in every room is .. Hideous ... 😩 😢.....plus that shower is Not a convience... Having to step up .....😢

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