Does Vegas Have a '50s Diner? | Las Vegas Advisor

Does Vegas have a '50s joint? You know, a place that plays Buddy Holly from a jukebox and serves malts and shakes. Examples include Peggy Sue’s '50s Diner between Vegas and L.A. (in Yermo, CA) and Jack Rabbit Slim’s in LA (seen in the movie "Pulp Fiction”).

Actually, yes, there is one.

You'll find a '50s-themed diner out on E. Desert Inn Road (a long block east of Eastern) called, naturally enough, Omelet House 50s Diner. It definitely has the vibe of the American Graffiti decade, with a checkerboard floor, pink accents, and walls covered with retro images and photographs -- Elvis and Marilyn Monroe posters and pictures (including Monroe's billowing white dress from The Seven Year Itch), Betty Boop on rollerskates, '50s Chevys, '50s album covers, along with retro Have a Coke napkin holders and the city's coolest neon hamburger, in our opinion, out front.

It also has a dedicated malt and shake bar, in front of which is the jukebox with, naturally, '50s music. Family run since 1990, the place is a local legend.

There used to be a nightclub on East Flamingo (if we recall correctly) called the Hop. It opened in the mid-1980s and was pretty popular into the '90s, but then fell out of favor and closed. It was sold in 1996 and reopened in early 1997; it was still called the Hop, but it played golden oldies on Wednesdays and Fridays only, with reggae on Tuesdays, Motown on Thursdays, and R&B on Saturdays. It closed again in 1999 when the new owner died.

So that's about it for the Eisenhower decade in Vegas, which is getting pretty long in the tooth -- eleven different presidents ago.

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Don the Dentist Oct-01-2020

The Hop

Went there a few times. Something different at first, then it got "old".

Ronald Oct-01-2020

Peggy Sue’s

There is also a Peggy Sue’s '50s Diner in Mesquite - closer to Las Vegas than Yermo.

alohafri Oct-01-2020

Roxy's

There used to be a Roxy's Diner at the Stratosphere. It was really cool. The wait staff were all singers and would break out in song a few times an hour. Food was good too.

Diamonddog2801 Oct-01-2020

Pete H

Wasn't there a 50's diner as you walked through from (what was) TheHotel at Mandalay Bay to Mandalay Bay itself? I'm guessing it's not still there!

VegasROX Oct-01-2020

Mustang Sallys?

I agree about Roxys at the Strat,
Was good fun. A number of years ago, 
There was one at a Ford  dealership 
I thing it was called Mustang Sally's
Don't know if its still there.

Jeff Oct-01-2020

'50s diner at Stardust

alohafri wrote "There used to be a Roxy's Diner at the Stratosphere. It was really cool. The wait staff were all singers and would break out in song a few times an hour."

There was also a 50's style diner at the Stardust that pre-dated the Strat's diner by a decade or two where the wait staff both sang and danced to doo-wop tunes a couple of times an hour. I always wondered if the servers had to pass a performer audition to get their jobs as servers.

Sam Glantzow Oct-01-2020

flip the name!

according to its website, it's "50s diner & omelet house", although trip advisor also has the reverse. "omelet house" is on west charleston and is quite good! never been to this one

Oct-01-2020

Omelets vs. the 50's

I'm wondering if the owners of the Omelet House west of the I-15 are also the owners of this 50's diner on E. Desert Inn Rd, and they elected to insert their name "Omelet House" at the front of the diner name. I'm thinking this because omelets were not a "thing" back during the doo-wop era. You never found "omelet" on a 50's diner's menu, only "eggs", only 2 of them, only done in the most basic ways (scrambled, over easy, sunny-side-up). Omelets (which usually have 3 eggs) were a trendy thing that didn't really get going until the 1980's, long after the doo-wop era was over. The term is almost a gourmet term, but nothing about classic 50's diners was gourmet; the word "gourmet" never appeared on any diner menu. These places were bastions of the antithesis of formal European dining (which would only be accompanied by classical music) and of the age of cultural innocence (and ignorance). Enjoyment of the diner experience wasn't impeded by concerns about heart attacks or nuclear war.

Tim Clark Oct-07-2020

mustangs sallys

yes it is still there out in Henderson at a Ford dealer kind of a neat place

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