"Las Vegas is the only town in the world whose skyline is made up neither of buildings, like New York, nor of trees, like Wilbraham, but signs."
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Tom Wolfe, Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, "Las Vegas (What?)" (1965).
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