Zap Paradise MEETING this Friday

Anyone interested in the new Zap Paradise Project is invited to a meeting at the Paradise Community Center, (McLeod, just north of Tropicana) on Friday 8/3 NOON.



Zap is an "arts in the street" project to commission local artists to paint the utility boxes on major streets.



The Zap Winchester project, which we've reported on before is a huge success and adds lots of color, history, humor and interest to Desert Inn and Pecos Mcleod etc.



Expanding this project onto Maryland Parkway, Flamingo etc, will be terrific. Volunteers as well as artists are welcome to attend.

(click on the Zap label to see our previous posts on the subject)

My Favorite

of the dozens of different "ZAP WINCHESTER" art in the street utility boxes. I've always had a fondness for train stuff, but still have only ever ridden one small guage train when I was in Alaska.

There's going to be an expansion called "Zap Paradise" which will start soon south of Desert Inn Road.

You can see them all for yourself if you'll drive Desert Inn from Eastern to Sandhill, and North on Pecos and McLeod off of Desert Inn.

We've posted some other pictures previously HERE

Art in the Streets UPDATE

We've heard a rumor that there will be a ZAP PARADISE PROJECT!

The original project, from Clark County Parks and Recreation was called Zap Winchester. If you haven't driven Desert INN or Eastern, or McLeod lately, you really ought to go see what we're talking about.

Expanding this to Paradise Township will put local artists to work on street poles, power boxes, traffic control boxes and lots of other utility surfaces. Maybe we can get the City to go in on it and do a Zap Downtown? Oscar? Gary? More to follow as we get more info.

Below is a re-posting of Ben's original post from back in February (ALL of our over 400 posts are in the archives, which can be accessed from the left column)




Las Vegas has always had great characters, even on our locally produced TV shows. These power boxes on DI and Eastern are a tribute to local television. Can You name all the shows?. Normally the ugly green boxes are an eyesore, but now I even stop my car to take a look. Send in Photos of art in the street and we'll post them here on VeryVintageVegas. Bennation@yahoo.com