I flew into Las Vegas last week. It was my third visit to Las Vegas in the last 12 months and each time I arrive at the McCarran Airport, I immediately sense that there is something “unnatural” about Las Vegas. Something about it just doesn’t feel quite right. And I am not really [...]
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Las Vegas: UnNatural Relations in Las Vegas I
Posted in Las Vegas, Luxury Travel, Ski, St. Anton, Travel, tagged Gambling, Las Vegas, Travel, Wynn Resorts on April 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Las Vegas: Un-Natural Relations II
Posted in Las Vegas, Luxury Travel, tagged Early History Las Vegas, Gambling, Las Vegas, Luxury Travel, Travel, Wynn on April 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By the early 1940s, downtown Las Vegas had several luxury hotels and a dozen small but successful gambling clubs. In 1941, a businessman by the name of Thomas Hull, who owned a string of motor inns in California, decided to open the El Rancho Las Vegas, just outside the city limits right off the [...]
