Neon Museum<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe Hacienda Hotel was located at the south end of The Strip, where Mandalay Bay now stands. The Hacienda was demolished in 1996.<\/p>\n
Little-known fact about the Hacienda: It was originally called Lady Luck, a name later used for a hotel-casino downtown, now known as Downtown Grand.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Las Vegas has a special place in its heart for Halloween, and downtown’s Hacienda horse and rider sign has gotten into the spirit of the season. An uncanny neon fail has turned into a Halloween win, as the rider is currently “headless,” an inadvertent but timely homage to “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,23,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-downtownlasvegas","category-vegas","category-las-vegas-wtf"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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