Millennial Halloween nostalgia fashion alert.I found my 2009 pics of Millennials looking hot during 'Hangover' Halloween at the Vegas clubs.

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This was Halloween night, 2009, on the Vegas Strip.

I was standing outside the nightclubs with my point-and-shoot Leica camera, taking pictures of the zombie apocalypse of tourists and locals who came to the Vegas Strip for dress-up night.

This is what everyone looked like in their Halloween fashions of the time.

Millennials’ costumes were from the Hangover and Kill Bill and Reno 911 and Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law.

Millennials came dressed as golden goddesses, Teletubbies, sexy Disney princesses, sexy angels, and sexy pirates of the Caribbean.

I took my camera to the clubs, because I wanted to see what everyone was wearing. And — more importantly — how they were wearing it.

In other words, was everybody fun to be around, and were they hot? That’s all I really cared about back then. Sometimes, it’s still all I care about, regarding fashion anyway.

I went from nightclub to nightclub and found Millennials motivated to find sex, or to simply flirt and hang out with their friends. And, you know, a lot of girls just wanted to score free cocktails from a poor sucker with a corporate credit card and a long-suffering spouse. But that's the Vegas game, for VIP tables, at least.

Beginning in 2009, Vegas clubs welcomed, for the first time, a steady flow of electronic DJs performing at the clubs and at swimming-pool dayclubs.

Every great DJ, worldwide, would come to Vegas, and enter their prime here. That included young Deadmau5, young Kaskade, young Calvin Harris, and the hit-song Goliath, David Guetta, among other famous electronic dance music artists playing Vegas throughout each week.

But none of this DJ greatness would have been possible without the real stars of the Vegas show back then:

Young millennials, who were in their prime and partying their asses off.

Looking back, the Vegas of 2009 to 2016 has a good argument for the title:

The Golden Age Of Vegas.

This Age lacked elements of previous Golden Ages of Vegas.

For instance, 2009 didn’t have The Rat Pack singers of the Sinatra Era.

2009 didn’t have the Anything Goes craziness of the mob-run Vegas years.

And 2009 didn’t have the new car smell of fun nymphomania from the early 2000s.

But 2009 did have peak Millennials. And the Millennial Youth chased experience over everything else, at the peril of their mentally exhausted middle ages to come.

Vegas itself was struggling financially in 2009, because of the Great Recession. But it was fun nonetheless, because hot young Millennials started their adulthoods the correct way, in my opinion, by prioritizing a good life.

You only live once, and all that.

At the exact same time, 2009 was the beginning of a traumatic yet golden time for America.

America had its first Black president. Obama.

Meanwhile, all of us Americans were trying to recover from the economic hangover of George W. Bush’s stock market crash.

There was even a movie called The Hangover, but it wasn’t about the stock market crash of 2008.

The Hangover reeled to the world just how beautiful, unregulated and madcap-fun life could be in Vegas: America’s greatest city, by far.

So Halloween 2009 was the first Hangover Halloween in Vegas. That's why many guys came dressed as Zach Galifianakis from the Hangover, wearing a beard and carrying a fake baby just like his character. This was slightly charming and slightly annoying.

Like any generation, Millennials had no idea what fresh heavens and fresh hells awaited them as the world turned.

Millennials could've predicted they might one day get married, have kids and bury loved ones.

But no one could've expected the coming dating apps, gambling apps, stock apps, Twitter rage, TikTok culture, housing prices, gay marriage, the death of Roe v Wade, the rise of the political wars, the gender wars, the class wars, and the everything else wars, not to mention drugs everywhere, with everyone on drugs constantly with mental illnesses.

Millennials have been through the ringer. But so have Gen X, Gen Z and everyone else.

Every generation is clueless about what the magnificent yet gnarly future holds. That's what the future is. It's unknown.

Anyone who throws bricks at the glass houses of Millennials are doing so from their own generation of ups and downs and all-arounds.

Let me tell you another thing:

A lot of us Vegas people say Vegas is a perfect microcosm of America, because Americans come here from every U.S. state.

If you’re a DJ in a Vegas club, your goal is to entertain tourists from Arkansas and Rhode Island just as much as California and Nevada, or any other state.

So my snapshots of Halloween Millennials are a snapshot of what American youth looked like in 2009.

These kids, they were full of hope, not “nope.”

They were wild and free and carefree and fearless and silly, and they laughed easily.

Millennials were so much fun back then, weren’t they?

Will they ever have fun again without worrying about their credit score and VO2 max?