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What was the first resort on the Strip? El Rancho Vegas

The story of the Las Vegas Strip started more than 80 years ago this week on a ranch. The first hotel-casino on Las Vegas Boulevard opened April 3, 1941 at what is now the Las Vegas Festival Grounds. At the time, travelers, most often from California, drove to Downtown Las Vegas through empty desert on Highway 91. There were some small casinos, but…
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What was the first resort on the Strip? El Rancho Vegas
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Historic Las Vegas Strip property closed and set for auction

The old Las Vegas Strip has nearly disappeared, and many of the remaining ties to its past are being torn down or slated for a wrecking ball. That's because the price of land and the cost of operating on the Strip are so high that properties that once made financial sense have become obsolete. Smaller hotels and casinos can simply no longer justify…
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Historic Las Vegas Strip property closed and set for auction
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Las Vegas Strip losing an iconic casino (and maybe more)

The Las Vegas Strip has not seen an implosion since Riviera in 2016, which was removed in order to enlarge the Las Vegas Convention Center. At one time, they were fairly common as the Aladdin (now Caesars Entertainment's Planet Hollywood) faced implosion in the 1990s, and El Rancho, Desert Inn, Castaways, the Boardwalk Stardust, and Frontier all…
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Las Vegas Strip losing an iconic casino (and maybe more)
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How the Dazzling Las Vegas Strip Rose Up From the Desert

In 1829, a group of explorers led by Spanish merchant Antonio Armijo moved west toward Alta California through the arid Mojave Desert-the ancestral lands of the Southern Paiute people. A young scout named Rafael Rivera discovered a particularly verdant area full of grassland irrigated by a natural spring; this lushness soon inspired the place's…
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How the Dazzling Las Vegas Strip Rose Up From the Desert
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Las Vegas Advisor: Fontainebleau resort opens in Las Vegas

Another week, another big opening in Las Vegas. Actually, it's rare for two major casinos to open in one month, but following the debut of Durango Casino on Dec. 5, the long- awaited Fontainebleau followed on Dec. 13. The massive $3.7 billion resort that's been in some stage of building (or just sitting) since 2007 started fast with a welcome bash…
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Las Vegas Advisor: Fontainebleau resort opens in Las Vegas
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Fontainebleau Adds High-End Casino Option To North End Of Las Vegas Strip

After years of stops and starts, refinancing, ownership changes, and a bevy of other delays, the Fontainebleau resort casino has finally opened in Las Vegas. The $3.7 billion property welcomed a bevy of celebrities and VIPs last week as part of a ribbon cutting and party to officially welcome the new casino to the Las Vegas Strip. Fontainebleau…
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Fontainebleau Adds High-End Casino Option To North End Of Las Vegas Strip
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Newest, bluest resort on Las Vegas Strip aims to bring Miami Beach vibe

LAS VEGAS (AP) - A developer's drive to open a Las Vegas Strip resort with a vibe echoing Miami Beach's venerable Fontainebleau reaches reality on Wednesday, with the opening of a 67-story hotel-casino tower that became famous as it sat unfinished for more than a decade. "Bringing Fontainebleau Las Vegas to life has been an extraordinary journey,"…
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Newest, bluest resort on Las Vegas Strip aims to bring Miami Beach vibe
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Grand Opening for 'Cursed' Casino at Heart of Vegas Strip

The Las Vegas Strip will welcome its newest icon today with the grand opening of the long-awaited Fontainebleau Las Vegas Hotel & Casino. Almost 20 years in the making, the 67-story glass monolith that sits at the north of the Las Vegas Strip has been blighted by floods, fires, and financial frustrations over a nightmare, decades-long construction…
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Fontainebleau Las Vegas Sets Sights on December Grand Opening

Image Source: Shutterstock.com The long-anticipated opening date for Fontainebleau Las Vegas, the towering 67-story casino resort on the iconic Las Vegas Strip, might have just been revealed. While Fontainebleau has yet to officially announce the date, a recent report from the Las Vegas Review-Journal suggests that Wednesday, December 13, is the…
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Fontainebleau Las Vegas Sets Sights on December Grand Opening
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How implosions made Las Vegas Strip what it is today

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) - KLAS-TV has changed over its 70 years, and so has the thing Las Vegas is known for worldwide, the Las Vegas Strip. However, to create the Strip that we all know today it had to get rid of the old one. In the 1990s and early 2000s, the Las Vegas Strip saw an implosion boom. The Dunes was the 10th resort on the Strip when it opened…
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Fontainebleau in Las Vegas has roof covered in smoke after fire

Thick black smoke filled the Las Vegas sky on Saturday after a fire at a soon-to-be-open Las Vegas resort and casino. Around 3:40 p.m. local time, smoke was seen coming from the roof of The Fontainebleau Las Vegas along the Strip. There were no reported injuries in the blaze, which saw 89 firefighters respond. Water pumps were operational in the…
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Notorious Las Vegas Venue Becomes Sin City's Latest Implosion

Las Vegas regularly attracts huge numbers of tourists eager to enjoy the city's super-sized penchant for visual shows. Visual entertainment in Las Vegas comes in many forms. These include major entertainment performances such as Cirque du Soleil at Bellagio Resort & Casino, which is operated by MGM Resorts International (MGM) - Get Free Report. Sin…
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Las Vegas Strip Venue Demolition Set, New Project Weeks Away

The Las Vegas Strip continues to evolve and modernize into the future as long-time, classic hotels, casinos and retail properties face the wrecking ball to make way for new projects. No fewer than a dozen classic Las Vegas hotel casinos have been imploded since the early 1990s to make way for new, modern hotel casinos, some that still stand today.…
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The rise of Sin City: How Vegas became a luxurious high-roller’s paradise

The gambling metropolis of Las Vegas is one of the most popular destinations in the world for high-rollers, and a playground for the rich and famous. Home to a plethora of extravagant luxury hotels, high-end casinos and a vibrant entertainment scene, it has often featured in Hollywood blockbusters thanks to its iconic haunts and endless supply of…
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Las Vegas Advisor: Iconic Las Vegas photo op has returned

For a cool blast from the past, head to Bally's to take a photo in front of a glass-encased display of 100 ten-thousand-­dollar bills. The display that was located at Binion's Horseshoe for decades has been brought back as part of Bally's transformation to Horseshoe Las Vegas. Located near the elevators at the entrance to Jack Binion's Steak…
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A video history of Las Vegas implosions

LAS VEGAS (KLAS)- During the 1990s and well into the 2000s, Las Vegas gained a worldwide reputation for imploding older hotels and casinos to make way for newer and bigger resorts. In true Las Vegas tradition, the building implosions were an event - an epic show with each one appearing to out-implode the previous. Between 1993 to 2016, 13 major…
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How Las Vegas Became a Gambling Mecca

Las Vegas was a small railroad town when Nevada formally established it in 1905. Five years after its founding, the U.S. census recorded only 800 residents. Yet by the 1950s, it was known as a gambling tourist haven, where visitors could see a show with celebrities like Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis, Jr. in between trips to the baccarat…
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Video history of Las Vegas implosion

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) - During the 1990s and well into the 2000s, Las Vegas gained a worldwide reputation for imploding older hotels and casinos with style to make way for newer and bigger resorts. In true Las Vegas tradition, the building implosions were an event - an epic show with each one appearing to out-implode the previous. Between 1993 to 2016,…
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Las Vegas, Las Vegas Strip Guests Asked to Keep the Kids at Home

While one Strip resort is doubling down on families, more are going 21+ and the city has a message for parents. The Las Vegas Strip became known as a gambler's haven in the 1940s after its first resort El Rancho Vegas opened and was shortly followed by other hotel casinos, such as the Flamingo. The Strip expanded in the 1950s and 1960s as more…
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History of Las Vegas implosions

LAS VEGAS (KLAS)- During the 1990s and well into the 2000s, Las Vegas gained a worldwide reputation for imploding older hotels and casinos to make way for newer and bigger resorts. In true Las Vegas tradition, the building implosions were an event - an epic show with each one appearing to out-implode the previous. Between 1993 to 2016, 13 major…
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Vintage Las Vegas casino photos from the past

OLBG scoured historical archives to compile a list of 15 photographs that exemplify Las Vegas' short, colorful history. As far as major American cities go, Las Vegas is by far the newest. Unlike New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles (which were all booming metropolises well before the Civil War), Las Vegas wasn't officially founded until the 20th…
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Vintage Las Vegas casino photos from the past
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The first casinos in Las Vegas: A history of the gambling capital

It's hard to imagine Las Vegas at the moment without the flashy gambling signs, luxury hotels and entertainment venues, but there was a time when none of these things existed. Moreover, in the city's rather long history, there have been periods when gambling was banned even in this gambling oasis. The success that Las Vegas is so famous for is no…
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The first casinos in Las Vegas: A history of the gambling capital
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Iconic Las Vegas Strip Resort Casino Likely to Shut Down

A long list of iconic (and not-so-iconic) names have come and gone on the Las Vegas Strip. While the current lineup of Caesars Entertainment (CZR) and MGM Resorts International (MGM) casinos has been relatively stable, that has not always been true on on the Strip and in the greater Las Vegas-area. In recent years, the Hard Rock and even a WWE…
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Best Shows in Las Vegas

Who doesn't love a good show, particularly when you're already in the mood for recreation? Sure, a movie's nice, but when you're in an entertainment capital-be it Hollywood, NYC, or Vegas, you set your sights a bit higher than catching up on the Marvel Universe's next mistake or screening the newest Disney animated film to make sure it's safe for…
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A Las Vegas landmark is about to go dormant: Travel Weekly

Hard Rock International announced last year it is buying the property from MGM Resorts International, and the iconic volcano will not have a role in the resort's eventual rebranding. Neither Hard Rock nor MGM officials would confirm when the volcano will be dismantled, and the timing of its last eruption is uncertain. A guitar-shaped room tower is…
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A Las Vegas landmark is about to go dormant: Travel Weekly
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Even before 'What Happens Here,' Vegas always understood how to market itself

What happens here, stays here, except when it's in a TV commercial, or on social media, or the subject of a film. That slogan has become legendary and ubiquitous since it began two decades ago as part of a "Vegas Stories" advertising campaign. Few remember "Vegas Stories," or much of the marketing of Las Vegas that came before, but the area has a…
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A Short History of Las Vegas

Few cities capture the imagination like Las Vegas. If a city was a celebrity, it would be a mix of Marilyn Monroe, Lady Gaga, and Gary Busey: beautiful, larger than life, and slightly insane. Las Vegas is a black hole of earthly delights, abandon, and pleasure; a gravitational singularity of sin. After all: what happens in Vegas, stays in…
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Construction Resumes on Fontainebleau Las Vegas

The sky is finally clearing at the long-dormant Fontainebleau Las Vegas site as construction revved up again yesterday on the project that commenced nearly 15 years ago. Jeffrey Soffer's Fontainebleau Development plans to open the hotel and casino at the end of 2023, ahead of the 2024 Super Bowl landing in Vegas. Located on 25 acres at the north…
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The Evolution gambling: a glimpse into a global landscape

From the simple act of betting on who would roll the highest number in the roll of a dice, to choosing who would be the winner, or survivor, in the gladiator's ring, we have been placing bets both for fun and for monitory return for thousands of years! So, when did casinos come into play? Well, despite the very real, and very illegal, gambling dens…
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How Las Vegas became the casino capital

When you think of the bright signs and flashing lights associated with the bustling casino, your mind will usually take a trip to Las Vegas - namely, the Sin City strip. Whilst the concept of gambling didn't necessarily originate from this iconic landmark, it's certainly considered to be the epicentre of all things gambling by people from all…
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Viva Las Vegas: How constructing Sin City’s Strip brought the gambling mecca to life

They say what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas but how did the gambling mecca come to be the motherland of kept secrets? FOX Business' " American Built " explored the structural beginnings of the Las Vegas Strip, starting with the construction of the railroad in 1905. Las Vegas, translated in Spanish as "The Meadows," was a halfway point for…
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Viva Las Vegas: How constructing Sin City’s Strip brought the gambling mecca to life
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'All Sand, No Sin': Incredible Photo Shows What Las Vegas Looked Like Back In The 50s

Mike Tyson's tiger. Hunter S. Thompson's squealy tyred Chevrolet. Alan from The Hangover. Dan Bilzerian. Fear. Loathing. Money. Drugs. Multi-million dollar fights. $2 weddings. Booze. Instagram. Suites. Sex workers. Priests. You get the picture. Since 1952, Las Vegas has become known for a lot of things. But it wasn't always a desert hotbed…
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'All Sand, No Sin': Incredible Photo Shows What Las Vegas Looked Like Back In The 50s
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A recent @DIMOCO white paper UNRAVELLING MOBILE CARRIER BILLING FOR iGAMING suggested that gambling operators could be leaving up to 70% of potential revenues on the table. It argued that most gambling operators have invested heavily in mobile platforms that recreate the Las Vegas "experience" - without fully capitalising on the true potential of…
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