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The Chip Board Archive 17

"This Is Las Vegas"
In Response To: Re: Aaaaah! Thanks Pam! grin ()


Just have a single issue, June '58. Main article is a Chamber of Commerce type piece with lots of population figures (116,000 in LV), airport patronage and tourist counts. Inside we find personal stories to go along several tourist souvenier postcards and the latest about different properties in and around Las Vegas.

They state that everyone over at the Stardust is getting ready for the July 2 (!) opening and that some of the boys licensed at the Desert Inn will be running everything except the hotel which is owned by Mrs. Rella Factor. No mention of Jake The Barber. grin Goings on at the Riviera, Aqua Hotel and Sahara. Dunes is putting in 300 hotel units, three quarters of million dollars. Silver Palace opened last month. Thunderbird under construction and New Frontier remains shuttered. Betty Grable performs at Desert Inn and Candy Barr at Desert Spa. Joe E. Lewis at ERV, Ray Bolger at Flamingo and Polly Bergen headlines at the Riv. Sans Souci has Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom, Eddie Fisher at the Trop and Sammie Davis Jr. is "generating lots of excitement" at the Sands. Well, all that sounds better than magicians, hypnotists and diva singers, diva comedians, and diva divas!

Sights worth seeing? Nevada Club the largest casino in the world specializing in slot machines!

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Once again, great info Pam!
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Where do you find that stuff PAM?
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Aaaaah! Thanks Pam! grin
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"This Is Las Vegas"
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