La Bayou, Casino in Downtown Las Vegas, US

La Bayou was a casino on the Fremont Street Experience in downtown Las Vegas, with 3,200 square feet of gaming space and 125 slot machines. It offered no table games or sports betting, and no hotel or restaurant was attached. The building was razed after the casino closed in 2016.

The building started out as the Las Vegas Coffee House in 1913, years before the city became known for gambling. When Nevada legalized gaming in 1931, the owner at the time received one of the first gaming licenses in the state ever granted to a woman.

La Bayou kept coin-operated slot machines long after most casinos had switched to ticket-based systems, giving players a feel for how gambling used to work. This made it a rare holdout from an older era of gaming on Fremont Street.

La Bayou closed in 2016 and can no longer be visited as a standalone casino. The surrounding Fremont Street Experience area remains open and easy to navigate on foot, with most other venues accessible along the same covered walkway.

La Bayou was one of the last casinos in Las Vegas where slot machines paid out in coins rather than vouchers, a holdover kept until its closure in 2016. Its 3,200 square feet of gaming space held 125 slot and video poker machines, with no table games or sports betting.