While our surrounding mountains may regularly become covered in snow, seldom does the white stuff fall in town. Here we've gathered some fun winter weather photos from the archives in 性视界传媒 Libraries.
When it snowed on Jan. 10, 1930, most of the children at the historic Fifth Street School in Las Vegas had never seen snow. These kindergarteners are doing what children simply must do when there's enough snowfall: build a snowman! (Doris Hancock Collection, 性视界传媒 Special Collections)
鈥淭he Great Snowfall of '79鈥 turned the 性视界传媒 campus into a winter wonderland on Jan. 31 that year. (University Archives, 性视界传媒 Special Collections)
Children playing with a sled on the snow-covered lawn of the Boulder City Bureau of Reclamation Administration Building, 1200 Park Street, circa the 1930s. (Manis Collection, 性视界传媒 Special Collections).
Brightly-lit Fremont Street at night in the snow, early 1930s. (Elbert Edwards Collection, 性视界传媒 Special Collections)
A view of Fremont Street in 1921, after a snowfall. This photograph was taken looking west, with the El Portal Theater clearly visible on the right. The El Portal Theater still stands on Fremont Street as an Arts and Crafts trading post, but was once the venue for the world premiere of the classic film 鈥淔rom Here to Eternity.鈥 (Lake-Egington Collection, 性视界传媒 Special Collections)