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Posted on: February 16, 2026, 08:57h.
Last updated on: February 16, 2026, 08:57h.
One of the more adorable Las Vegas myths some tourists believe is that the Rat Pack’s actual footprints are preserved in cement on the sidewalk where the Sands once stood.
Every day, people look at the photo on the plaque installed by the Venetian on their sidewalk in March 2015, then place their shoes inside the foot marks, hoping to channel some Rat Pack magic.
Once, we actually heard a woman tell her male companion: “Look how small my feet are compared to Frank’s.”
Bless her heart.
Feet of Clay
The Rat Pack (Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop) never returned to the Sands together to commemorate a 1960 publicity photo or anything else. Lawford was out of the group by 1962 and Bishop two years later. And – must we repeat this again? — they never once referred to themselves as the Rat Pack. (They were The Summit.)
So who was it that traded perfectly good loafers for concrete immortality, Grauman’s Chinese Theater-style?
Nobody. Artists from the Grand Canal Shoppes’ Regis Galerie cast bronze inlays of period-accurate 1960s dress shoes, then pressed the metal into the wet slurry until it sat flush with the surface. To avoid the Strip’s midnight gauntlet, the pour was done at 3 a.m. (Even then, crews had to physically restrain “well-served” tourists from adding their own footprints next to Frank’s.)
One More for the Road
The plaque also perpetuates its own myth.
“The legendary photo… was taken at this spot,” it declares, before later walking that back to “the approximate location.”
The reason for the fudge is understandable. When the Nevada Department of Transportation widened the Strip in 1999 to accommodate the Venetian’s traffic, the Sands’ original sidewalk was jackhammered and paved over.
If you want to stand exactly where Frank, Dean, Sammy, Peter, and Joey did in 1960, you need to walk 12 feet west of the plaque. Which would put you in the outermost northbound lane of Las Vegas Boulevard.
Try that and you might get your own plaque — identifying your crypt.
