can recapture some of the magic<\/a> of the Rat Pack era by focusing on \u201cpersonalized attention.\u201d<\/p>\nRat Pack stars such as Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and Dean Martin hit their stride in Las Vegas during the 1960s with performances in the Copa Room at the now-demolished Sands hotel-casino on the Strip. The stars sometimes mingled with guests. The Venetian and Palazzo were built where the Sands once stood.<\/p>\n
Schwartz has written several books about gaming, including the recently published\u00a0At the Sands: The Casino That Shaped Classic Las Vegas, Brought the Rat Pack Together, and Went Out With a Bang<\/i>.<\/p>\n
\u201c<\/span>I think that, for Las Vegas at least, the brand has overshadowed the experience,\u201d Schwartz told\u00a0Casino.org<\/i>. \u201c<\/span>Casinos will tell you how awesome they are. But they don\u2019<\/span>t always do such a good job of communicating what will make the experience inside them unique and worthy of a trip.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Near the end of his life last summer, former mobster Frank Cullotta said Las Vegas as depicted in the movie Casino will never come back. Dennis N. Griffin, who has written several books about the Mafia in Las Vegas, said the retired mobster told him before a final trip to the hospital that “the Vegas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":160856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3313,18],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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