…it flourished in Las Vegas along one stretch of road: Maryland Parkway. On this university-adjacent thoroughfare, college students and the creative class gathered to study, socialize, dine and shop. Independent coffee shops filled with academics and intellectuals. Record stores became community centers. Bars and clubs buzzed with live music. The college radio station, KUNV, provided the soundtrack for the whole scene, through its award-winning “Rock Avenue” programming.
By the dawn of the 2000s, however, that scene almost entirely disappeared. “Rock Avenue” was cancelled. Record stores went under. Coffeehouses shuttered. Those cultural guideposts moved, for the most part, to downtown Las Vegas, and today, Maryland Parkway looks and feels very different than its 1990s heyday.
“…a piece of not only Las Vegas history, but Americana…”
Through archival footage and interviews with business owners, journalists, musicians, artists and scenesters from that era, PARKWAY OF BROKEN DREAMS tells the story of how alternative culture in Vegas was born on, thrived around, and eventually, faded away from Maryland Parkway.
“…a thorough, caring visual love letter…”