House to Vegas, 1941-46

This 1941-1946 Kodachrome home movie spans a Southern California hillside house—new with stone walls, a nurse posing, and a fresh garden—to Las Vegas’ El Rancho Vegas in ’45 and ’46. A blonde woman, pipe-smoking man, and young daughter star in family pool scenes, joined later by kids—possibly Latino—frolicking at the resort. Pans sweep the El Rancho’s tower, poolside loungers, and a sign touting “Fine Foods, Casino,” capturing a wartime-to-postwar shift from quiet suburbia to Vegas glitz.