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LOST VEGAS: The Foster Brooks Robot at MGM Grand
Dorothy, Scarecrow, Cowardly Lion, and Tin Man were the figures guests expected to see while following the yellow brick road through the MGM Grand beginning in December 1993. That’s when Kirk Kekorian’s...
LOST VEGAS: What Happened to the Art from the Silver Slipper Casino
On April 30, 1968, Howard Hughes purchased the Silver Slipper for $5.4 million from an investment group led by Maurice Friedman, T.W. Richardson, and Shelby Williams. (Yes, all had ties to organized...
LOST VEGAS: Hidden Relics of Sin City’s Past You Can Still See
The history of Las Vegas has an unusual adversary: The people who own its landmarks. Every time Las Vegas explodes, it seems, it implodes first. Virtually nothing from the Strip's early history...
LOST VEGAS: Block 16, Sin City’s Only Official Red-Light District
Google “Block 16” and “Las Vegas” and you may think this article is about an expensive food hall at the Cosmopolitan on the Strip. It is about the human appetite for expensive...
LOST VEGAS: The Strip’s First Fountain Show
“Carmen Miranda, Danny Thomas, and other big entertainers here are being upstaged by a new star that dances, is pretty, but has no sex appeal,” read a wire story by United Press...
LOST VEGAS: ‘Tony The Ant’ Spilotro’s Circus Circus Gift Shop
When people talk about the mob running Las Vegas, they’re not referring to the gift shop at Circus Circus. But that’s exactly what Anthony Spilotro, the high-ranking Chicago Outfit member who inspired...
LOST VEGAS: The Hoover-Damned Town of St. Thomas
The human remains uncovered by the receding waters of Lake Mead claim the headlines, and rightly so. But they're not the only secrets that climate change has forced the nation’s largest reservoir...
LOST VEGAS: 1969 West Las Vegas Riots
Google “West Las Vegas Riots” and you'll be shown stories about an uprising that erupted in the historically Black part of Las Vegas -- in response to the Rodney King verdict in...
LOST VEGAS: The Original Las Vegas That No One Knows About
Las Vegas wasn’t even the first Las Vegas in Las Vegas.?A thriving community of 2,000-3,000, also called Las Vegas, was established before the railroad that supposedly built Las Vegas even got there....
LOST VEGAS: The Lucky Strike Prospector Statues
When the Lucky Strike Club casino opened in 1954 at 117 Fremont St. in downtown Las Vegas, two 12-foot prospectors stood guard from the top of its rooftop sign. Seventy years later,...