That’s the beauty of our concept.”īowman said they brought in about 400 250-pound blocks, harvested from icemakers all over the country. “Every six to eight months we’re fiddling around with something. “Ice is a perishable product, so your concept is always changing and refreshing,” he said, estimating that the new pieces will comprise 30 percent of the overall displays. “It’s quite fascinating to watch it happen,” said president and owner Noel Bowman, adding that renovations are done periodically. A team of 13 ice carvers from the United States and Europe worked with chainsaws, chisels, sanders and electronic grinders this month to construct new pieces for all three sites. And even if you’ve been before, know that there are some cool - har! - new features. That’s the more-familiar Fahrenheit equivalent to minus-5 Celsius, which is the ambient temperature at the correspondingly named Minus5 Ice Experience at Mandalay Bay and The Venetian and Icebar at The Linq Promenade. You want to be cool? On a day when a high of 110 degrees is forecast, 23 degrees sounds pretty good. And those wonderful inventions have led to lots of other local sources of cooling relief. Most of us wonder how in the heck people managed to survive before air conditioning and refrigeration.
Technology has made it a whole lot easier to live in our corner of the desert. Saturday September 6, 2008-View photo by Marlene Karas Friends in the front row R-L Katie Schmidt, Corina Ledbetter, Elizabeth Schmidt and Clara Bates wait for the show to begin.
SW-VIEW-Super Summer Theatre 2008 at Spring Mountain Ranch presented the Las Vegas Contemporary Dance Theatre (LVCDT) on Saturday September 6, 2008. Super Summer Theatre 2008 at Spring Mountain Ranch presented the Las Vegas Contemporary Dance Theatre (LVCDT) on Saturday September 6, 2008.
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