Number Fifteen: The Flamingo Was Named After His Owner's Girlfriend

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After the El Rancho was established, three more Western Casinos opened for business. In 1941, El Cortez opened as the first large hotel downtown. The hotel Last Frontier opened on the strip in 1942, and in 1946, the Golden Nugget opened downtown. The one big casino to the Western motif was Benjamin Siegel’s The Flamingo which opened in 1946. Siegel was a mobster with ties to the Chicago and California networks, envisioned a “jewel in the desert.” The Flamingo was not a success and was temporarily closed. It then re-opened and had a diverse theme-oriented style in the hotel casino industry in Las Vegas.

The story of this company begins in 1967 when a man operating under the International Leisure Company, by the name of Kirk Kerkorian buys The Flamingo casino and starts constructing The International Casino, all in Las Vegas Nevada. Two years later The International opens as the largest hotel in the world with 1,500 rooms. In 1971 the International Leisure company is bought out by Hilton, becoming the Las Vegas Hilton and Flamingo Hilton. In 1973 Kirk had not yet had enough and built the MGM Grand which became the newest hotel to feature the award of largest in the world. It had an astonishing 2,100 rooms. Between 1978 and 1979 MGM Grand Reno Nevada opens and a discard of plans to build an MGM Grand Atlantic City occurs.

The need among Americans to be diverted in ever more imaginative ways -- through high-thrill parks, virtual reality arcades, and theme restaurants, plays right into the hands of Dave Corriveau and Buster Corley, co-founders and CEO’s of Dave and Busters. The duo’s 50,000 square foot complexes include pool hall, an eye popping, cutting edge midway arcade, a formal restaurant, a casual diner, a sports bar and a nightclub rolled into one sprawling complex. In business since 1990, this is a high energy, highly efficient operation that’s comparable to a Vegas extravaganza. As a matter of fact there are even “for fun” cashless blackjack tables, with fake $10,000 chips. Pricey, but not outrageous, and you get value for your money.

The city of Las Vegas is considered to be one of the best entertainment locations in the world. Only in Vegas can you find top notch travel amenities and luxurious resorts, accompanied by world class dining and entertainment. Recognized throughout the world, the Las Vegas Strip is the iconic image of dreams and possibilities dependent only on Lady Luck. Not all winning takes place on the craps tables or slot machines. Las Vegas continues to reinvent itself, seeking better and more glamorous ways to enrich the visitors’ experience and score a win for the travel industry. It is this reinvention, this type of guest winning that brings me to discuss and explore the success of The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.

By giving him such a huge amount of money, he was told to buy several casinos; and this leaded him under the controlled by the Mob (Peleggi.N and Neumann.F). The main reason why they choose him was because he was legitimate, meaning he had a gaming license from that Gaming Commission, which for the mob, he was the perfect front man to covert up everything so that the skimming operation wouldn't be too suspicious . With that money he brought several casinos as told including the Stardust, and was given orders by the mob bosses (Peleggi.N and Neumann.F). As long as the Mob could control who owns the casino, they can control the count room, and begin their skimming operation. The skimming operation consists of polling out the money made day-by-day from the casino and shipping it directly to the Mob bosses back in the Midwest. Rosenthal at that time was in charged of the casinos but he didn't have anything to do directly with the skimming operation. His duty was to assure the Mob that their men in the count room were left alone and that it was filled with money. For years, Las Vegas has been a relatively quiet place. The big bosses were making so much money from the skimming operations that they managed to keep it that way, free of violence. No car bombed, no gun shooting were their policy, they certainly didn't want to have a law-enforcement or scaring away the tourists, so all the problems were settle out of Las Vegas, in the

Right outside of Las Vegas, several miles off the beaten path, there is a lowkey casino that sits back on a hill, surrounded by artificial palm trees and a bauble of cheap christmas light. This casino is bordered by an abandoned building on the eastern end, and a brothel on its southern side, and the only light is from the full moon shining bright over the western sky. The T-shaped alley way, formed by the three buildings, are famous for their high prostitution business. Inside the casino, there’s a three hundred and sixty degree bar that splits the entire building in half. From the door, on the right half, the building is set up like a normal casino with your average blackjack table and lottery machines. On the left half, there is a club set up to with women with little to no raiment present.

On the evening of December 26, 1946, it seemed that Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel had done almost everything right for the debut of the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas. The casino was staffed with roulette, craps and blackjack dealers, restaurant and bar workers were ready to serve and the showroom was booked with famous entertainers, radio comedian Jimmy Durante and band leader Xavier Cugat. Siegel reassured Las Vegas residents by advertising the message, “Dress Optional at Anytime. Come as You Are.”

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MGM Resorts International is one of the biggest Hospitality and Entertainment Company tracing all the way back to 1969. Its original name was the Grand Name Co. in 1986 and later changed to the MGM Grand Inc. It was said that Kirk Kerkorian was the man behind the creation of the resorts, when he created the MGM Grand Hotel in 1973. It wasn’t until 1993, when construction of the MGM Grand Las Vegas opened in December costing $1 billion dollars. During that time, MGM Resorts International began acquiring joint ventures to construct the hotel New York New York, which cost a total of $460 million dollars.

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A long-time Southern California resident, Luke Meadows has been traveling to Las Vegas on the weekends and taking most of his vacations in Las Vegas for over 30 years. An engineer by trade, his methodical approach to problem solving has made him a successful gambler in casinos up and down the Strip as well as throughout the rest of Las Vegas.

The Mirage quickly surpassed the Hoover Dam as the most visited site in Nevada and by the 1990s Las Vegas surpassed Orlando as the most popular tourist destination. Although, it would be remiss to one of Steve Wynn’s most notable influences, Jay Sarno, the developer of Caesar’s Palace. Sarno was the innovator who created casinos with dramatic themes. For example, he hired men dressed as Roman centurions to personally deliver invitations to home addresses for his grand opening in 1966. Caesars Palace featured scantily dressed “wine goddesses” who massaged gamblers’ temples while peeling and feeding them grapes. “It was Jay who brought Las Vegas the first concept that the place itself is the show, from top to bottom, stem to stem, the costumes, the architecture,” said

When walking into “The Strip” in Las Vegas, an instant feel of excitement rushes up. The flashy neon lights paired with glimpses of amazing acrobatics on gigantic screens easily brings up the energy of tourists, businessmen, and gambling addicts. You may wonder how a once stranded desert can transform into such a paradise of skyscrapers. The answer lies in casinos.

Casinos don’t come much bigger and better than Caesars Palace. This is one of the original big Vegas casinos, and it has a fearsome reputation that even the mightiest casinos on the Las Vegas Strip can only dream of. But what it is about Caesars Palace that is so alluring? In this article, we will take a closer look at the global goliath that is Caesars Palace, and see just why it holds such a special place in every Las Vegas gambler’s heart.