Las Vegas in the 1950s was a time of great change. In the 1950s, there were 44,600 living in the Las Vegas Valley. More than 8 million people visit Las Vegas each year in 1954, pumping $ 200 million into the casino, which consolidates its image as "wild, full of late night, exotic entertainment". The population grew dramatically from 8,422 during World War II to over 45,000. From 1952 to 1957, through the money and institutional loans provided by the Timsters Union and some Mormon bankers they built Sahara, Sands, New Frontier, Royal Nevada on Showboat, The Riviera, The Fremont, Binion's Horseshoe, and finally The Tropicana. Gambling was no longer the only attraction in the 1950s; the biggest stars of movies and music such as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Andy Williams, Liberace, Bing Crosby, Carol Channing, and others appear in an intimate atmosphere and carry the new brigade of Hollywood and other movie stars in the entertainment business to the city. In 1957, the first topless show "Minsky's Follies" started here.
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1950-51
While Las Vegas in 1940 had a population of 8,422, by 1950, it had risen to 24,624 people. Curbing the gambling market in the city by suspected members of the masses triggered a two-year investigation by Senator Estes Kefauver and the Senate Special Committee for Crime Investigation at Interstate Commerce in 1950-51. The hearing concluded that organized criminal money is indisputably tied to a Las Vegas casino and a controlling interest in the city that generates huge revenues for large groups that strengthen their influence in the country. This led to a proposal by the Senate to institutionalize federal gambling controls. It is only through the strength and influence of the Nevada Senator, Pat McCarran who proposes to the committee. Along with their connections in Hollywood and New York City, these Las Vegas interests can use the publicity provided by these media capitals to drive the rapid growth of tourism to Las Vegas so that it blows Galveston, Texas; Hot Springs, Arkansas; and other illegal game centers across the country. The game of Nevada law and paradoxical oversight by local and local law enforcement in other locales during the 1950s made their deaths inevitable. It is owned and operated by a joint combination of Mormon elders who provide political and business legitimacy and people involved with organized crime that provide unreported income and street muscles, such as Meyer Lansky, these crime hotels are considered to be the epitome of gambling entertainment.
In 1950, the West Village of the Last Border was converted to Silver Slipper. The Desert Inn opened on 24 April 1950; Frank Sinatra's first performance at The Desert Inn was held in September 1951. The first edition of The Las Vegas Sun was published on July 1, 1950 by Hank Greenspun with a header "Las Vegas Morning Sun" investigation into organized crime commenced by the Senator Estes Kefauver on November 15, 1950.
The above ground nuclear test began at the Nevada Test Site, north of Las Vegas (65 miles (105 km) from downtown Las Vegas) on January 27, 1951. After that was shown on television on April 22, 1952, the city of Las Vegas and the nation was gripped by atomic fever and the Chamber of Commerce even issued a calendar showing points favorable for viewing atomic sites. Atom cocktail, Atom-dos hair, and beauty contest Miss Atomic Blast became popular with people in some casinos. Testing continues until the 1963 Test Ban Treaty comes into force and surface testing is prohibited and underground testing becomes mandatory.
In 1951, Eldorado Club Downtown was transformed into the Horseshoe Binion Casino by Benny Binion. Binion arranges casinos like old-fashioned river boats, with low ceilings and velvety wallpaper. It was the first casino to have a carpet, as well as a comp offered to all gamblers. He set a high table limit and set the limit of the $ 500 dice table - ten times higher than any other casino in Las Vegas at the time. Finally, Binion raises the table boundary to $ 10,000 and even removes the full table limit, which is a direct hit. Binion then served in Leavenworth Prison from 1953 to 1957 for tax evasion and sold his share of the casino to fellow gambler Joe W. Brown. While Brown operates a casino, he installs a famous $ 1 million screen on the casino floor. He sold the screen in 1959 and then remade it using 100 $ 10,000 bills by Binion in 1964 when he regained control of it. The screen becomes one of the casino attractions.
Vegas Vic, the unofficial name, but the most widely used for Las Vegas, a 40-foot neon sign representing a cowboy, was founded over the Pioneer Club in Las Vegas in 1951. Richard Moreno (2008). Nevada Curiosities: Unique Characters, Ansietas Roadside & amp; Other Offbeat Goods . Press Globe Pequot. pp.Ã, 1880-. ISBN 978-0-7627-4682-8. Ã, & lt;/ref & gt; The sign was a departure in the graphic design of fluorescent signs by type, to a friendly and cowboy friendly man. The creation of the giant cowboy was based on an image that was part of a promotional campaign launched by the slogan "Still a Frontier town". Voice messages that are broadcast every 15 minutes by mechanically operated images are "Howdy, pardner." This voice is not liked by people and hence its broadcast is stopped. The original figure (now restored) is from 40Ã, ft high with a weight of about 6 tons (regarded as the biggest mechanical sign in the world). The sign moved his hand, winked, grabbed a cigarette and let out a circle of smoke. His outfit consisted of a calf cap, blue jeans, boots, yellow shirt, and bandana.
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1952-53
The Sahara Hotel and Casino opened on 7 October 1952. At the end of 1954, the hotel hired jazz musician Louis Prima to become their act at night, one of the earliest on the Las Vegas Strip. Together with his current wife, Keely Smith and Sam Butera saxophone player, they created one of the largest late-night attractions on the Strip. In 1956, Abbott and Costello performed together for the last time on the Sahara stage before their permanent separation. The hotel built the first first tiered tower on the Strip in 1959, designed by Martin Stern.
The Sands Hotel and Casino, the seventh resort, opened on The Strip on December 15, 1952. The biggest names in the entertainment industry decorate the Copa Space Stage, the showroom at Sands, named after the famous Copacabana Club in New York City, including Judy Garland, Lena Horne, (he was billed in Sands as "The Satin Doll"), Jimmy Durante, Pat Cooper, Shirley MacLaine, Marlene Dietrich, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Robert Merrill, Red Skelton, and many others. The public can sit on the edge of the room in the showroom holding no more than five hundred, paying only three dollars in the 1950s. Much of the music success of the Copa Chamber is credited to the band's band leader and music conductor Antonio Morelli. Morelli not only acted as the band's leader and musical conductor for the Copa Chamber during the heyday of the Rat Pack in hotels in the 1950s and 1960s, he also played that role on hundreds of recording albums by the same entertainers who adorned the Copa stage including Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Tony Bennett, Dean Martin, and many others. Las Vegas Convention & amp; The Visitor Authority was established in 1953 and local television also began in the same year on 22 July 1953 by Greenspun and others. Las Vegas Park opened on 4 September 1953 with a horse racing event, which lasted only 13 days.
1954-55
In 1954, more than 8 million people visited Las Vegas each year pumping $ 200 million into the casino. Gambling is no longer the only attraction; the biggest stars of movies and music such as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Andy Williams, Liberace, Bing Crosby, Carol Channing, and others appear in an intimate setting. Upon arriving to see these stars, the tourists will continue gambling, and then eat at the gourmet buffet that has become a staple of the casino industry. When the city became a gambling center, illegal activity became rampant and many muckraking scandals appeared in the media during the 1950s and 1960s. For example, in 1954 County Sheriff Glen Jones was revealed as a brothel owner and led to the resignation of the Democratic Governor of Clifford Jones state.
A new utility company, Southwest Gas expanded to Las Vegas in 1954. In October 1954, the first bupati meeting was held in Las Vegas by Southern Nevada students.
The Last Frontier held a two-week performance by Ronald Reagan from April 28, 1954, and on that day, Roxie, a brothel on Boulder Highway, was raided. Showboat moves east from downtown. The Showboat Hotel and Casino was inaugurated on 3 September 1954 by Bill Moore, J. Kell Houssels, and Joe Kelley with a speech at that time the mayor of C.D. Baker. It was billed as "Las Vegas's first resort hotel" and marks an important landmark in the history and development of the city.
Showboat was built by William J. Moore of Last Frontier and J. Kell Houssels of Las Vegas Club for $ 2 million. The first resort within the city limits of Las Vegas, it has 100 rooms on two floors. While Moore and Houssels manage the hotel, the casino was hired by a group of managers from the Desert Inn, including Moe Dalitz. After several unsuccessful years, Joe Kelley took over management, and began successfully targeting local customers with a forty-nine-cent breakfast special and other promotions. Kelley added bowling in 1959, soon to be the main attraction of Showboat, organizing a nationally televised PBA tournament.
The Riviera The CÃÆ'Â'te d'Azur themed was founded, becoming the ninth major hotel to be opened on the Strip, and the first high rise of the Strip. The opening of the Riviera, along with The Dunes and the Casino Royal Nevada resort within a month is the subject of the famous edition of Life Magazine, on June 20, 1955 with a Moulin Rouge stage girl on the cover. The title is Las Vegas - Is Boom Overextended? and the story of how Las Vegas is building too many hotel rooms becomes profitable. The Riviera was built by a group of investors from Miami. The resort has undergone many ownership changes over the years, including a control period by owners associated with the Mafia. Harpo Marx and Gummo Marx have minority interests at the opening. Marx's brothers also have a little under ten percent of the Hotel. It is said that Gummo spoke to his brother to put money into the Hotel, because that would be a good place for him to perform. Harpo is easy to sell. Dean Martin once held a minority shareholding stake when he became headliner in the showroom. Gus Greenbaum was brought in to manage the Riviera in 1955. He managed to manage the Flamingo Hotel after the death of Bugsy Siegel. However, drug addiction and Greenbaum gambling caused him to embezzle money from casinos. In December 1958, Greenbaum and his wife were murdered at their home in Phoenix, Arizona, reported on the orders of Meyer Lansky or Tony Accardo.
The Gaming Control Board was established by the Nevada Tax Commission on March 29, 1955. The Riviera, a ninth then high-rise building in Las Vegas opened 20 April 20, 1955. Las Vegas celebrates its 50th anniversary on May 15th. The Dunes is the 10th resort on The Strip, which opened on May 23, 1955. Moulin Rouge, Las Vegas, the first integrated racial hotel opened on 24 May 24, 1955. In June 1955, NoÃÆ'½ Coward paid the reported $ 160,000 for a 4-week nightclub performance at the Desert Inn.
1956-57
The New Frontier Hotel was Elvis Presley's first showcase in Las Vegas from April 23, 1956. The 12-storey Fremont Hotel and Casino is located at 200 Fremont Street. It opened on May 18, 1956 and later became the tallest building in downtown Las Vegas for several years. It was designed by architect Wayne McAllister, and at its opening had 155 rooms, costing $ 6 million to open and owned by Ed Levinson and Lou Lurie. In 1959, Wayne Newton started his career in Las Vegas at Fremont at the Carnival Lounge. Thunderbirds, an air demonstration squadron was established at Nellis Air Force Base on June 1, 1956. The Silver Palace, a double-storey building opened on June 8, 1956. Hacienda opened in June 1956.
The "Minsky's Follies", Showgirls debut show opens at the Desert Inn on January 10, 1957. Tropicana opened on April 3, 1957 at the intersection of Tropicana - Las Vegas Boulevard. In 1955, Ben Jaffe, an executive from Fontainebleau Miami Beach, came to Las Vegas and bought a 40-acre package on the corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Bond Road (now Tropicana Avenue). Jaffe aims to build the best hotel in Las Vegas, featuring a Cuban atmosphere, with four room themes for guests to choose from: the French Provinces, the Far East, the Italian Renaissance, and the Drexel. Construction ran over schedule and over budget, in part due to competition for labor with Stardust under construction on the road. Jaffe had to sell his interest to Fontainebleau to complete the project, which was finally opened in April 1957. Jaffe first rented out his property to his colleague, Phil Kastel. The Gaming Control Board raises suspicions over Kastel's relationship with organized crime, which was confirmed in May when a record that reads a Tropicana income figure is found in the possession of the mafia Frank Costello. Jaffe next turned to J. Kell Housells, owner of the Las Vegas Club. In 1959, Housells bought Jaffe's interest, earning a majority stake in Tropicana.
On 10 September 1957, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) was first established, initially as a branch of the University of Nevada, Reno and independence in 1969. Irwin Molasky, Nathan Adelson, Moe Dalitz, and Allard Roen built the Sunrise Hospital 1950 was partially financed by the US $ 1,000,000 lent to them by Jimmy Hoffa of the Teamsters pension fund; Nathan's son Merv Adelson served as hospital's first president after it was opened in 1958.
1958-59
In 1958, Stardust brought a French production show, Lido de Paris . The Nevada Gaming Commission was established on March 30, 1959. In 1959, Clark County Commission built the Las Vegas Convention Center, which will be an important part of the regional economy. Las Vegas, the iconic symbol of Las Vegas, entitled "Welcome Las Vegas Nevada" which is an illuminated sign board designed by Betty Willis for Young Electric Sign Company (YESCO), installed in 1959.
Commercial development and settlement flourished north and east of Charleston Boulevard. Prudential Homes announced it will build 640 homes in what is now Lorenzi Park. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Miranti brothers of American Homes, built a number of large family home builds around Las Vegas. In the early 1950s, Louigi's Italian restaurant opened on the strip; in the mid-1950s, the Venetian Pizzeria opened near Downtown; and at the end of this decade, Tony's Italian Restaurant opened on Fremont Street.
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