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Quick Fact – Sands Silver
1956 As revelers welcomed the new year at the Sands in Las Vegas, management gave every guest (an estimated 18,000 of them) a brand new silver dollar. Additionally, they gifted each of the 700 women in...
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Frank Sinatra’s Hissy Fits
1967 & 1970 Apparently, the beloved crooner had a temper, which he sometimes unleashed when casino operators denied him additional, excessive amounts of credit when gambling. In one instance when...
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Quick Fact – Road to Monopoly?
Howard Hughes, 1973 1968 Howard Hughes, billionaire industrialist, received the Nevada Gaming Commission’s blessing to buy the Stardust hotel-casino in Las Vegas for $30.5 million and moved forward...
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Nevada Makes Gamblers Choose
Riviera hotel-casino, Havana, Cuba 1957-1959 During Nevada’s 1957 legislature, State Senator Kenneth Johnson (R-Ormsby), voiced his concerns about some of the state’s gambling licensees* simultaneously...
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Quick Fact – Oasis in the Desert
Gambling at the slots in the Sands, Las Vegas, 1950s 1950 Las Vegas spent $750,000 a year on advertising (about $7.5 million today). The Chamber of Commerce promoted the town as: “An oasis for the...
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Quick Fact – Detrimental Game of Chance
Silver Slipper, 1950s 1956 The gambling licensees of the Dunes and Silver Slipper casinos applied to restart bingo on the premises, but the Nevada Gaming Commission denied their request, stating that...
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Mobster Meyer Lansky Tries to Desert USA
1970-1972 Meyer Lansky was the puppeteer behind the scenes of the world’s gambling stage from the 1930s to the 1960s, controlling and manipulating the characters with aplomb. The show’s plot was him...
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Quick Fact –“Floating Craps”
1953 The Sands hotel-casino in Las Vegas, Nevada offered craps not poolside but in the pool! Photo from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas’ Digital Collections
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