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Keywords: Las Vegas; sense of place; tourism; urban change; personality of place EN Las Vegas sense of place tourism urban change personality of place 206 212 7 01/17/22 20220101 NES 220101 Gragg, Larry (2013). The everyday life of locals maintains a strong, longstanding, and often oppositional bond to what Goodwin refers to as the Las Vegas "master narrative", what Foster sees as the "Vegas" reputation, and what Borer calls the "Las Vegas Syndrome" or "steep neon slope." The Las Vegas craft beer scene, for example, includes local breweries that embrace gambling imagery (Bad Beat Brewing and Aces and Ales) and others that take on local toponyms and historical moments connected to Las Vegas (Tenaya Creek Brewing and Atomic Liquors). [Extracted from the article]

This auto-geographical, sense of place essay represents one approach to understanding a personal attachment to a location that has been disrupted by time and a destructive wildfire. It is written in the context of increased frequency of natural and human-caused disasters and a growing literature engaging the impact of disasters on place. It is an attempt to illustrate how a personal essay can be an important venue through which geographers can explore longstanding disciplinary themes of human interaction with place and the physical environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]