Spacemen Land at Las Vegas Airport [news]
From: Visitations <visitations@skipnet.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 17:11:59 -0800
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Sunday, May 31, 1998, Los Angeles Times
Spacemen Land at Vegas Airport
By Michael P. Lucas
Conspiracy theorists, secret agents and space abductees, take
note: Soon you won't need to drive far out into the desert to
reach the mysterious Area 51.
The super-secret Air Force base cum cultural lightning rod for
all things alien has inspired a themed shopping experience in Las
Vegas' new $300-million airport terminal, which opens June 15.
Shoppers will be able to browse under hovering spacecraft among
"Star Trek" videos and glowing jewelry as lifelike space
creatures peer over their shoulders.
The real Area 51, 100 miles north of Las Vegas, attracts UFO
buffs worldwide. Aficionados of unexplained phenomena take state
Route 375--Nevada's official "Extraterrestrial Highway"--to reach
the parched outpost of Rachel. They gather there at the Little
A'Le'Inn tavern and motel to watch lights moving in the night
sky. Key scenes of "Independence Day" were set there.
McCarran International Airport's Area 51 is in the east wing of
the spacious new terminal with the unglamorous name D Gates--no,
not after the former L.A. police chief, but because the A, B and
C gates were there first. This Area 51 will be within the Nevada
Desert shopping zone, sprawling between a bank of slot machines
and the duty-free shops.
Kathy Hussey, an executive of airport concessionaire W.H. Smith
Inc., said she had been pondering possible shopping themes for
the new terminal when she happened upon an air show at Nellis
AFB. There she saw the light: Actually, she spotted merchants
from Rachel selling Area 51 merchandise. She hurried back to the
office to contact vendors.
"There is so much alien stuff out there," she said as
construction workers hauled an ungainly model flying saucer
through the unfinished terminal toward the future store. She
plans to sell educational space videos, alien-infested lava lamps
and copies of the definitive reference work, "Area 51 Viewer's
Guide" by Glenn Campbell, a researcher who has done a lot to make
the shadowy place a cultural icon in recent years.
Meanwhile, longtime Las Vegas writer-editor Jim Barrows said he
has heard word of another even more mysterious base out in the
desert: Area 58.
"Just mention Area 58 now and people go ballistic," he said.
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RELEVANCE OF THIS MESSAGE: Area 51
Index: 1998 Articles about Area 51 (#5)
Index: Area 51 in Popular Culture (#18)
Created: Jun 1, 1998
