John, "The Gaming Table" lists the addresses of Nevada (and worldwide) casinos.

Alex has given you the location of El Rancho Vegas, which burned down in 1960 in a middle-of-the-night fire of suspicious origin (I can give you the suspected details if you're interested) and was never rebuilt. For many years, the land has been owned by the Summa Corp., which was Howard Hughes' company. Summa got out of the casino business after Hughes' death, but not out of the Nevada land business.

The original Flamingo was on the site of the present Flamingo Hilton, and the last original buildings were torn down about 4 years ago to make way for a new tower. The Last Frontier was located just barely south of where the New Frontier (that's New Frontier #2!) is now.

"Viva Las Vegas" is good, but a far better book, in my opinion, if you can find it (it's now out of print) is Donn Knepp's "Las Vegas: The Entertainment Capital." A fantastic history book with terrific photos of budding and developing Las Vegas, through the 1970's. Another good book is Deke Castleman's "Las Vegas," which IS in print. Castleman is an editor of "Las Vegas Advisor," which Anthony Curtis publishes.

-=Michael the Chipper=-