Light Has a Birthday Party

The Light nightclub at the Bellagio is celebrating its anniversary weekend and it is being promoted without a number because a nightclub never tells her age.

I called over this morning to the Light Group and discovered it is the fourth anniversary. A little more prying and a month and year emerged: Light opened in February 2002. The funny thing is that I am fairly sure I was at the opening. But that was the start of the nightclub boom in Vegas and there have been dozens of openings since then of nightclubs and ultra lounges on and off the Strip.

Almost every casino has one and many have two. More than being among the first, Light championed the high-end customers and did things like bring bottle service to Vegas to get them. In short, it was Light that showed the resorts how to transform a nightclub from a place where barely legal kids on Ecstasy danced to a desirable experience for the big money elites (who are also the sort of people up for some serious gambling). Light's success got the highest compliment Las Vegas has to offer: everyone copied them.