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The players: the men who made Las Vegas by Jack E. Sheehan

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By Jack E. Sheehan

Las Vegas has been defined as "the final nice, mythic urban that Western civilization will ever create, " and its short, exceptional background has been principally formed by way of a handful of colourful and astute on line casino operators who became a dusty desolate tract city into the gawdy, booming vacation mecca that it really is at the present time. The essays during this e-book introduce us to those "players" and description the selections that led them and their selected urban exceptional heights of luck. we find how early leaders like Cliff Jones, Moe Dalitz, and Benny Binion first grasped Las Vegas's capability as a middle for high-stakes playing, and we learn of mobster "Bugsy" Siegel's efforts to deliver to fact one other man's dream of a glamorous resort-casino on a then-remote web site on the fringe of city. different visionaries like Jay Sarno, Sam Boyd, and Jackie Gaughan helped flip casinos into islands of delusion, replete with lavish leisure spectacles, that experience develop into the norm for next building within the urban, they usually begun the now-standard perform of mass-marketing the Las Vegas adventure to heart the US. the arriving of eccentric Howard Hughes brought a brand new kind of company administration to an hitherto led via self reliant marketers and their households - a method of administration when you consider that carried on by means of Kirk Kerkorian and Steve Wynn.

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And those individuals owning less than 5 percent of the stock, which is to say the majority of shareholders of typical publicly traded corporations, did not have to be licensed at all. The need to reexamine the state's policies toward corporations took place at the same time that the eccentric tycoon Howard Hughes lived in Las Vegas. Hughes began buying casinos with abandon until he became the single largest casino owner in the state. Never was any man so welcomed by the state of Nevada. "Mr. Hughes' involvement Page 19 here has absolutely done us wonders," said Governor Paul Laxalt at the time.

JACK SHEEHAN Page 1 A Peculiar Institution Sergio Lalli On May 2, 1957, as Frank Costello returned to his apartment in the Majestic on Central Park West, a gunman in the foyer lunged at him from behind and shot New York's most prominent mobster in the head. The gunman retreated from the fashionable apartment house before making sure he had finished the job. The bleeding Costello had received only a grazing wound. While doctors examined Costello at a hospital, police searched through Costello's clothes and found, in one of his pockets, a slip of paper that listed the gross receipts, the table game income, the slot revenue, and the markers outstanding from an unnamed casino.

Page 7 Nevada's new attitude toward gaming participants was exemplified in the thunderbird case, which marked the first time the state tried to revoke the gaming license of a major resort. The case came to the tax commission after a series of stories in the Las Vegas Sun charged that Meyer Lansky and his brother Jake had hidden interest in the Thunderbird casino on the Las Vegas Strip. The articles also reported that one of the hotel owners, Lieutenant Governor Jones, was using his political and gambling connections to "buy" the gubernatorial election for Vail Pittman so hoodlum gamblers could have their way with the tax commission.

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