Helldorado Days (Las Vegas)
- This is for the festival in Las Vegas. See Helldorado Days (Tombstone) for the festival in Arizona.
Helldorado Days is an annual festival that hosts a rodeo, parade and carnival that began in 1934. Helldorado is an annual event in Las Vegas, Nevada.[1][2] The rodeo is a Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) event.[1]
The event is run by the Elks chapter as a fund raiser for local charities.[3]
History
Begun in 1934 by Clyde Zerby,[4] the event was held annually until 1998 when the festival was suspended. It was resumed in 2005 for the City of Las Vegas' centennial celebration.[5] The festival was originally created to draw people into Las Vegas as the workers who had been building Boulder Dam began leaving.[6]
Events like the parade and rodeo were not parts of the original festival but were added in later years. The first parade was in 1935,[7] the naming of a Helldorado Queen began in 1936[8] with the first rodeo arriving in 1944.[9]
References
- 1 2 "About Helldorado Days". Elks Helldorado Days. Retrieved 2009-05-12.
- ↑ "Las Vegas Helldorado Days". KNPR. 2009-05-14. Retrieved 2009-05-14.
- ↑ "Elks Clubs Helldorado Shootout golf tournament". Las Vegas Sun. Retrieved 2009-05-12.
- ↑ White, Ken (2005-05-09). "Raising Helldorado". Las Vegas Review-Journal . Retrieved May 14, 2009.
- ↑ Koch, Ed (2005-01-08). "A history of change". Las Vegas Sun. Retrieved 2009-05-12.
- ↑ Abowitz, Richard (2008-05-19). "The Movable Buffet: Dispatches from Las Vegas by Richard Abowitz". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2009-05-14.
- ↑ "Annual Helldorado Parade In Downtown Las Vegas on Saturday May 17 7 PM". Uncle Jack’s Very Vintage Vegas. 2008-05-13. Retrieved 2009-05-20.
- ↑ "Downtown Las Vegas - 1930's". earlyvegas.com. Retrieved 2009-05-14.
- ↑ Pope, Jeff (2009-05-14). "Helldorado Days brings out the Old West in downtown". Las Vegas Sun. Retrieved 2009-05-20.