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  1. TheMayor

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    Let me check my schedule and get back to you.
     
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    ^^ that Caesar's palace suite photo is in the Vegas Gold book. Hot pink shag carpeting...I doubt that room was designed for sleeping. The pool at the Flamingo is one of Vegas' best designs...I haven't been there in maybe ten years though and it was looking a little beat my last visit.
     
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    See the steeple type structure at the Venetian? Right side of the photo? That's a cell tower. Unfortunately I have spent many hours inside it gathering structural data. It gets hot in there. Anyway moving on................
     
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    Wow I never noticed that....
     
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    I would love to be a part of it.

    Do they still have one?


    I do recommend Wayne's house tour. I have done it twice and it was enjoyable both times (once for me\yself and once for my Mom.) The Neon Museum is always fun but I hear now you have to have a 1 hour guided tour which might not be a bad thing.
     
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    My parents took me to see Red Skelton in Las Vegas when I was nine. He made funny things beautiful, and beautiful things funny. Vegas has its redeeming qualities.
     
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    I’d love to own that house, being a bit of a mob historian, if the walls could talk.... wow. Lefty and Ginger fighting like cat and dog every day, the parties, the meetings with The Ant.....
     
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    And Oscar Goldman, our gin cocktail loving former Mayor whose wife is now the Mayor.
     
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    Ahhh yes, almost forgot him, the man that kept The Ant on the streets for years....... what a guy! I jest, he was clearly a good lawyer, and the FBI were unfortunately too stupid to get their cases right... I’ve met him a couple times at events, he can tell a good story I can tell you
     
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    I hope we can pull this Old Vegas thing together. I've got a story for you guys too. A New Yorker who moved to Las Vegas, had some business to take care of...next thing you know he is filling his swimming pool with cement. This guy was my best friend's father-in-law.
     
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    Side note that might also tie into "Las Vegas Dining" had to do with the Paul Castellano whack. (ordered by Gotti). Castellano was gunned down right on the sidewalk of a busy Manhattan Street just after finishing an early dinner at Spark's Steak House. For some years after, Zagat reviews carried this line about Spark's: "Great place to have a last meal."
     
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    Interesting read! My life here in Vegas is much more mundane than all the gangster stuff............I have fun though and have grown to love the city and it's history.
     
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    Wow...... did she ever remark about anything strange with the guy?, he and his partner were in very very deep. I do wonder how colleagues manage to miss the signs, or do they just stay quiet and leave it to others to grass
     
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    From the early strip through the 80’s, the mob were very much on the strip, but Howard Hughes had started the purge with his buying up casinos brokered through Dalitz and friends, and corporate America took their place in ownership. The mob was damaged by the whole spilotro thing and the skim being discovered, not fatally, but they moved back to the shadows from what had become a comically obvious place in the centre of everything. Remember, lefty rosenthal had a tv show where he interviewed the ‘stars’ in Vegas, all to justify his own ego and his role as ‘entertainments director’ rather than a controller of the casino when he had no licence from the gaming board.

    Vegas needed the mob to become what it has today, but the withdrawal of the mob back then had to happen, as Vegas has gone from strength to strength with the legal version of Vegas that followed. Remember, the mob bankrolled (mostly via teamsters pensions loans) many of the casinos, many of the attractions. Moe Dalitz was the lynchpin of building the hospital and many other community projects. For all their bad press, there was a good side to it (small, maybe).
     
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    Good post daytona355. I wonder if there is some video or kinescopes of Lefty's TV show? I'd like to see that. You know, Rose Marie (Dick Van Dyke Show most famously) recently died. She was a child star and is show biz almost 90 years. her family was connected back in NY and she stayed connected. headliner at Bugsy's opening at Flamingo. I'll bet she could tell some stories (not now of course). RIP "Sally"
     

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