Parkway of Broken Dreams | movie | 2021 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

A collection of independent record stores, coffeehouses, and art spaces provides the backbone for an organic creative cu | dG1fbXJuZWZZWl9qVDA

Transcript

00:00 (upbeat music)

00:03 - In the early 90s, the center of the cultural scene

00:07 of Las Vegas was Maryland Parkway.

00:09 - Everything cultural was on Maryland Parkway

00:16 for a long time, 'cause it's proximity to the campus,

00:19 but also it was pretty much the center of the town.

00:22 - All the elements of culture that someone like me

00:27 is looking for could all be found within a very

00:30 concentrated area.

00:32 You had some great record stores, I would argue

00:34 the best in the city.

00:36 You had the radio station and the culture surrounding that,

00:40 and then the anchor to all of it were the cafes.

00:43 - There was constantly good music and poetry

00:47 and just interesting things happening.

00:49 - We all had a scene, like everybody knew each other

00:54 and we'd pull other people in.

00:56 - It was the hub of anything that was happening

01:00 that was underground, that was creative, it was exciting.

01:04 - It helped me to know that there were other people

01:06 who were creating, who had a place in Las Vegas,

01:10 where they had an outlet.

01:11 - It was that community's open arms that took a lost kid

01:17 like me in and helped me grow.

01:20 - We were challenging a notion that everything happened

01:23 on the strip, that all the art happened on the strip,

01:25 that all the entertainment was on the strip.

01:27 - That whole scene of the 90s was really kind of like

01:31 a cultural primordial stew for a lot of people

01:35 who went on to do other things in media or music or in arts.

01:38 - We were in this together, you know,

01:46 and we were just trying to make something happen

01:48 and make it work, and it did for a while.

01:51 (dramatic music)

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