GRAND OPENING - AUGUST 5TH. 1966 .... MOST ALL CASINOS WERE MIDDLE EASTERN THEMED ... (dunes - sahara - el morocco - algiers - Aladdin etc.)
Believe it or not ... the Jewish gamblers and tourist ... these themed hotels kind of rubbed them the wrong way being (arab themed) ...

Anyway that's what I was told by the old Jewish men I knew ... Jay Sarno being Jewish hit a home run with this Romanesque themed casino hotel ... thus CAESARS PALACE was born and Las Vegas had a new winner on the strip ... no one wanted to stay at the older joints in town ... CAESARS was the place to be! Enjoy these old photographs of the early days ... HAIL CAESAR!