Film and Media History
- The 1971 James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever featured a chase scene in which James Bond, running from Las Vegas police, side-rolls a car through an alley exiting onto Fremont Street.
- The 1987 music video for the song "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" by U2 was filmed on Fremont Street and featured the band members wandering around, while The Edge played an acoustic guitar.
- 1998's Very Bad Things featured Fremont Street in the movie.
- 1992's Honey, I Blew Up the Kid prominently featured Fremont Street in the movie.
- 1992's Cool World showed all the animation coming out of the Plaza hotel and going down Fremont Street.
- In 1994, Glitter Gulch was featured prominently in the TV Miniseries The Stand.
- The 1997 comedy Vegas Vacation includes a few scenes on Fremont Street.
- In the 2004 movie Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Steve the Pirate is seen along the Plaza near the Fremont Street Experience.
- In a 2005 release, Panic! at the Disco released a song about cheap motels on Fremont Street called "Build God, Then We'll Talk."
- The 2007 film Next, has Nicolas Cage's character entering the Golden Nugget from the Fremont Street Experience.
- Ice Cube's music video for "Chrome and Paint" took place on Fremont Street, with Ice Cube in a lowrider.
- In the video game, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas, Logan Keller, and his teammates Jung and Michael, infiltrate Fremont Street to find a news van, which they find by going through the maintenance tunnels under the "Stocco Casino."
- Heavily referenced in the Tom Waits song "Mr. Siegal."
- Featured at the beginning of the TV Series CSI season 7 finale episode 24.
- Featured in the opening credits of the TV series Vega$.
- Magician & illusionist Criss Angel has done many demonstrations and TV specials there.
- In Fallout: New Vegas New Vegas (Las Vegas, Nevada) downtown is called Freeside on Fremont Street.
- The reality television series Pawn Stars is filmed at the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop located on Las Vegas Boulevard, which features other prominent members of the downtown community, most notably Jesse Amoroso from Cowtown Guitars who appears as a reoccurring guitar expert on the show.
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