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==History== |
==History== |
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=== Early years (1930s–1990s) === |
=== Early years (1930s–1990s) === |
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The first casino to be built on [[U.S. Route 91|Highway 91]] was the [[Pair-O-Dice|Pair-o-Dice Club]] in 1931, but the first full service casino-resort on what is currently called the Strip was the [[El Rancho Vegas]], which opened with 63 bungalow hotel rooms on April 3, 1941. (The El Rancho Vegas showroom and casino were destroyed by a fire in 1960. The El Rancho Vegas bungalows were not damaged, and were rented out until the early 1980s).<ref name="frommers.com">{{Cite web|title=History in Las Vegas {{!}} Frommer's|url=https://www.frommers.com/destinations/las-vegas/in-depth/history|access-date=2021-04-02|website=www.frommers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=About the El Rancho Vegas exhibit|url=https://gaming.unlv.edu/ElRanchoVegas/Fire.html|access-date=2021-04-03|website=gaming.unlv.edu}}</ref> Its success spawned a second nearby hotel, the [[Hotel Last Frontier]] in 1942.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Last Frontier Hotel {{!}} ONE|url=https://www.onlinenevada.org/articles/last-frontier-hotel|access-date=2021-04-03|website=www.onlinenevada.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Staff|first=Sun|date=1955-04-04|title=Colorful hotel history – Las Vegas Sun Newspaper|url=https://lasvegassun.com/news/1955/apr/04/colorful-hotel-history/|access-date=2021-04-03|website=lasvegassun.com|language=en}}</ref> [[Organized crime]] figures such as [[Bugsy Siegel]], originally from New York, later residing in California, took an intense interest in the growing Las Vegas gaming center and funded another resort; financing the completion of the [[Flamingo Las Vegas|Flamingo]] construction with mob money. The Flamingo construction was started by famed Hollywood publisher [[Billy Wilkerson]]. The Flamingo casino opened in December 1946, and the hotel opened in March 1947. [[Wilbur Clark]]'s [[Desert Inn]] resort opened in 1950.<ref name="frommers.com"/> The funding for many Las Vegas projects was provided through the [[American National Insurance Company]], which was based in the then-notorious [[Free State of Galveston|gambling empire of Galveston, Texas]].<ref>{{cite book | title=Mr. Mob: The Life and Crimes of Moe Dalitz | author=Newton, Michael | pages=40–41 | publisher=McFarland | year=2009 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KZCUIxhP7ikC| isbn=978-0786453627 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title=Neon metropolis: how Las Vegas started the twenty-first century | author=Rothman, Hal | publisher=Routledge | year=2003 | page=16 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K4940Wy0DikC| isbn=978-0415926133 }}</ref> |
The first casino to be built on [[U.S. Route 91|Highway 91]] was the [[Pair-O-Dice|Pair-o-Dice Club]] in 1931, but the first full service casino-resort on what is currently called the Strip was the [[El Rancho Vegas]], which opened with 63 bungalow hotel rooms on April 3, 1941. (The El Rancho Vegas showroom and casino were destroyed by a fire in 1960. The El Rancho Vegas bungalows were not damaged, and were rented out until the early 1980s).<ref name="frommers.com">{{Cite web|title=History in Las Vegas {{!}} Frommer's|url=https://www.frommers.com/destinations/las-vegas/in-depth/history|access-date=2021-04-02|website=www.frommers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=About the El Rancho Vegas exhibit|url=https://gaming.unlv.edu/ElRanchoVegas/Fire.html|access-date=2021-04-03|website=gaming.unlv.edu}}</ref> Its success spawned a second nearby hotel, the [[Hotel Last Frontier]] in 1942.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Last Frontier Hotel {{!}} ONE|url=https://www.onlinenevada.org/articles/last-frontier-hotel|access-date=2021-04-03|website=www.onlinenevada.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Staff|first=Sun|date=1955-04-04|title=Colorful hotel history – Las Vegas Sun Newspaper|url=https://lasvegassun.com/news/1955/apr/04/colorful-hotel-history/|access-date=2021-04-03|website=lasvegassun.com|language=en}}</ref> [[Organized crime]] figures such as [[Bugsy Siegel]], originally from New York, later residing in California, took an intense interest in the growing Las Vegas gaming center and funded another resort; financing the completion of the [[Flamingo Las Vegas|Flamingo]] construction with mob money. The Flamingo construction was started by famed Hollywood publisher [[Billy Wilkerson]]. The Flamingo casino opened in December 1946, and the hotel opened in March 1947. [[Wilbur Clark]]'s [[Desert Inn]] resort opened in 1950.<ref name="frommers.com"/> The funding for many Las Vegas projects was provided through the [[American National Insurance Company]], which was based in the then-notorious [[Free State of Galveston|gambling empire of Galveston, Texas]].<ref>{{cite book | title=Mr. Mob: The Life and Crimes of Moe Dalitz | author=Newton, Michael | pages=40–41 | publisher=McFarland | year=2009 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KZCUIxhP7ikC| isbn=978-0786453627 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title=Neon metropolis: how Las Vegas started the twenty-first century | author=Rothman, Hal | publisher=Routledge | year=2003 | page=16 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K4940Wy0DikC| isbn=978-0415926133 }}</ref> |
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