El Cortez Hotel & Casino neon signage

El Cortez is one of Las Vegas’s oldest continuously operating casino-hotels, opened in 1941, and is located in downtown Las Vegas. The property’s vintage neon signage and classic façade are frequently photographed for retro and nostalgic social-media posts, which are often remixed as memes about old-school Vegas. Its historic status and preserved neon make it a recurring visual reference in imagery about classic Las Vegas.