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| Las Vegas Hotels: More into History |
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Las Vegas Hotels meant big business. Hundreds of thousands of people visited this fabulous city everyday. And all of them needed a place to stay! Las Vegas Hotels began to be constructed after the Second World War, and that first string of resorts in the late 1940s sparked off a chain reaction. The race to build hotels was on!
Wilbur Clark, formerly a hotel bellman in San Diego, California set up the Desert Inn in 1950. What made it unique among existing Las Vegas Hotels was that it offered a panoramic view of all of Las Vegas from its third-floor Skyroom, a cocktail lounge and dancing place for visitors, residents and even celebrities.1952 saw Milton Prell’s Sahara Hotel, built on the site of the former Club Bingo. In 1955, the Riviera became the first high-rise hotel on the Las Vegas Strip. It was nine stories high, outstripping the view offered by the Desert Inn.
In the 1950s, the Las Vegas Strip saw hotels like the Royal Nevada, Dunes, Hacienda, Tropicana and Stardust hotels come up. Downtown Las Vegas saw the opening of the Fremont Hotel-Casino. The Moulin Rouge Hotel-Casino opened in 1955, catering to people of all races. At the Las Vegas strip, black entertainers had to live off the premises while black guests were not welcome to stay, and the Moulin Rouge Hotel-Casino stepped in.
In order to fill the need for a Las Vegas convention facility, a 6,300-seat, silver-domed rotunda with an adjoining 90,000-square- foot exhibit hall one block east of the Las Vegas Strip opened in April 1959 on the site of the current Las Vegas Convention Center. In 1990, the silver dome was demolished to make room for an expanded 1.6-million-square-foot facility with an exhibit space of 1.3 million square feet, making it the largest single-level convention centre in the world!
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