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Did Bugsy Siegal really start the Strip?

Article Category: Travel

Author Name: {AARON JOHNSON|ABDUL WILLIAMS|ABE JONES|ABEL BROWN|ABRAHAM DAVIS|ABRAM MILLER|ADALBERTO WILSON|ADAM MOORE|ADAN TAYLOR|ADOLFO ANDERSON|ADOLPH THOMAS|AD

The Strip started life as Route 91, this led to the name of one of its first nightclubs: the 91 Club. In the forties the 91 Club struggled to compete with Downtown, and people weren't attracted to squandering their leisure time on what was considered the LA Highway. Things moved on with the opening of El Rancho Vegas in the month of April 1941. This hotel with casino, developed by a man called Thomas Hull, had shops, places to eat, shows, horses, a pool, and sixty-three rooms. It was the starting point of the Las Vegas Strip as we know it. The path to large resorts delivering bedrooms, eateries, gaming, sport and finally Las Vegas Strip Condos had begun.

Following in T, Hull's career path was real estate investor R.E. Griffith who bought up 175 acres on the highway and built a place called Last Frontier. Opening in the October of 1942 this was Vegas's first themed casino and its homage to the wild west proved in demand. The Carrillo Bar was named after the Cisco Kid's sidekick, and there were toy animals all through the Last Frontier casino.

Following this was a casino-hotel that folks wrongly consider was the start of the Strip. Billy Wilkerson, creator of newspaper the Hollywood Reporter, paid for 33 acres south of the hotel Last Frontier in 1945 and began development of the Flamingo in April of 1945. Wilkerson had Gus Greenbaum and Moe Sedway as operating partners despite their connections to organized crime, yet the major issue was that he was a degenerate casino player. He bet on the development itself when he began it without enough cash to complete it, and he also lost thousands of dollars of his hard earned cash as he wagered during the construction period. The scheme ran out of money, and mafia boss Meyer Lansky came in with $1m to invest.

Soon after Lansky's cash investment one of his underlings, Benjamin Siegel, came to supervise the investment. Bugsy Siegel first split the project with Wilkerson, and then moved on to take the whole development over. But Bugsy was no builder, and budget overruns and design changes caused a delayed opening in December 1946. It opened without the rooms being finished and thus the casino could not generate the funds to pay for operations: the Flamingo closed just 1 month following its opening.

It was in March 1946 that the Flamingo hotel reopened with 93 rooms available. It pretty quickly started to yield revenues, but it appears that the mob had not let slip from memory the expense overruns: in June 1946 Bugsy was killed, and Gus Greenbaum and Moe Sedway came in to run operations.

In the history of Las Vegas it is easy to fail to remember the credit due to the true pioneers: Thomas Hull and R.E. Griffith. In the history of the Flamingo it is very easy to forget the significance of Billy Wilkerson's original vision, and the operational smarts of Greenbaum and Sedway. For lots of folks it will always be Bugsy who built the Strip.

Keywords: Las Vegas history, Las Vegas Strip, Las Vegas, Las Vegas condos

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