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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.

  It's been nearly four decades since Las Vegas saw a culinary strike and it's never seen one of this size, and potential magnitude.   

It was a small gathering, voices low, anxieties high. On Monday, Oct. 9, Rosie Polonsky joined around 20 of her fellow University of Nevada, Las Vegas students at a rally on campus in support of Israel, which had been attacked by Hamas terrorists two days earlier.

Nowadays, names like Don Laughlin, Harvey Munford and Carol Harter may not mean much to the average Nevadan, but at one point, those names were calling the shots around Clark County.

There was just a dirt road and a boarded-up motel in 1964 when he first saw the area at the southern tip of Nevada that would be named after him.

Could the “birthplace of modern Las Vegas” be on life support? The Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort has stood since 1855, but the changing neighborhood around the fort presents new challenges.

Could the “birthplace of modern Las Vegas” be on life support? The Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort has stood since 1855, but the changing neighborhood around the fort presents new challenges.

Preserve Nevada, the first statewide historic preservation organization, is on a quest to save what they say are the "Eleven Most Endangered Places in Nevada". For more, KCBS Radio's Liz Saint John spoke with Michael Green, 51�ԹϺ��� history professor and executive director of Preserve Nevada.