Tiny the Tumbleweed<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nStill, miracles happen in Las Vegas all the time. Nobody figured the SLS would happen on the site of the former Sahara, and that hotel will be opening even sooner than anticipated.<\/p>\n
So, we’ll wait and see, but we won’t be holding our breath. In the meantime, we tip our hats to this feisty casino that changed Las Vegas forever, the Moulin Rouge, gone but never forgotten.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s one of the quirkiest aspects of Las Vegas casino culture. Owners of defunct casinos are obligated to have gaming on the site of their former casino every two years to avoid losing their unrestricted gaming license. (Nevada stopped issuing such licenses in the 1990s, so they’re highly coveted.) Recently, the former Moulin Rouge opened […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,24,2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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