Nevada's Golden Age of Gambling
By Al W Moe
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Dozens of Vintage Photos of Las Vegas, Reno and Lake Tahoe in this Edition!
Before "Bugsy" Siegel" opened the Flamingo casino and created the Las Vegas Strip, the Mob was hard at work stealing Downtown casinos like the Las Vegas Club and the El Cortez from their original owners. Reno casino owners resorted to arson and murder to keep their money flowing, and they had Lake Tahoe casinos in their pocket too!
Nevada's Golden Age of Gambling is a photo-rich history of the casinos from 1931 to 1981. All about the building of empires from Reno and Lake Tahoe to Las Vegas and a dozen other Nevada casino towns.
Stories detail how the casinos were built, who the major gaming pioneers were, and how they managed to build Nevada from a agriculture and mining based economy into the greatest gaming empire in the world.
Chapters include the history of casinos and their founders from Bill Harrah and "Pappy" Smith, to Moe Dalitz, "Bugsy" Siegel, and dozens of others.
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Reviews for Nevada's Golden Age of Gambling
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A very brief history of Nevada's legal gambling. There is a lot of good information in this book, but at times (mainly dealing with the earliest origins of Las Vegas) it can be very dense, dry reading. It gets a bit tedious when it begins listing the names of those who owned, operated or had a piece/percentage of the early clubs, often reading like some sort of legal document presenting a history of property ownership more than anything else.Towards the second half of the book it gets much better as the author seems to relax and relate more of the human side of those early empire builders who were really interesting characters (perhaps the difference is that many of these were more of the loner variety so the author can concentrate on a single person rather than listing more names).The book is at its best when offering brief glimpses of the entertainers who came and went as Nevada gambling grew and prospered, also when discussing in more detail some of the more colorful people who made or lost their fortunes during those same years.The epilogue would have been better served as a prologue (or even as a blurb on the back cover) since it explains that the author is trying to present a "glimpse at the history of Nevada's legalized gambling since its inception in 1931, through its Golden Anniversary in 1981."This book would make a nice starting point for someone looking to get basic facts about Nevada's early gambling history.***I received this book as part of a free promotional giveaway contest.