Gaming History - Week of November 10, 2019
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| November 10th |
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| 2019 - Sunday |
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| 1980 - Laughlin Nevada. The Colorado Belle was a casino hotel on the banks of the Colorado River in Laughlin, Nevada, owned and operated by Golden Entertainment. The Colorado Belle was a fixed building made to look like a six-deck replica of a 19th-century Mississippi River paddle steamer riverboat. It had 1,168 rooms in two seven-story towers. The casino had 42,706 sq ft (3,967.5 m2) of gaming space with 750 slot machines and 16 table games. The hotel had three restaurants. The Loading Dock, Big Easy Deli, Pints brewery, and two gift shops. The resort also included two pools, a fitness room, a koi pond, and an arcade. |
| Link to: Colorado Belle Wikipedia
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| 2021 - Rockford, Illinois. Hard Rock Casino Rockford temporary opening in 2021, slots only. Full casino planned to open in 2023. |
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| November 11th |
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| 2019 - Monday |
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| 1978 - Las Vegas, NV. Friendly Club opens at 101 East Fremont Street, downtown Las Vegas. |
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| 2006 - Atlantic City NJ. The Sands Hotel/Casino closed on November 11, 2006 The building was imploded at 9:37 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on October 18, 2007; the first-ever casino-hotel implosion on the East Coast. It was accompanied by a fireworks show and numerous parties along the boardwalk. Coincidentally, Sands was demolished less than 24 hours after the death of the last surviving member of the Rat Pack, comedian Joey Bishop. |
| Link to: Sands Implosion
Link to: Sands Wikipedia |
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| 2008 - Las Vegas, NV. Aliente Casino and Hotel (formerly known as the Aliente Station) is a hotel and casino located in North Las Vegas, Nevada. It is owned and operated by a group of banks and private equity firms.The $662-million Aliante Station project was first announced on December 20, 2005 by Station Casinos. The casino was a joint venture between Station Casinos and the Greenspun Corporation, who had previously partnered in developing Green Valley Ranch. Greenspun contributed the 40-acre site, part of its Aliante planned community. The target market was expected to include the 6,500 households in Aliante and visitors to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, among other locals and travelers.Aliante Station opened on November 11, 2008, at 10:40 p.m. Aliante was originally going to open at 11:11 p.m., however due to such a large crowd and traffic, the casino opened sooner. Before the opening, a fireworks show was provided for the public.
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| Link to: Aliante Wikipedia
Link to: Aliante Website |
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| November 12th |
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| 2019 - Tuesday |
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| 1955 - Reno, NV. Club Cal-Neva in Reno was closed by the IRS (reopened 12-2-55 under new ownership). |
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| November 13th |
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| 2019 - Wednesday |
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| 2007 - Las Vegas, NV. The New Frontier closed its doors at midnight on July 16, 2007, and was demolished by implosion on November 13 2007 (Clauss Construction and Controlled Demolition, Inc.). The Atrium Tower was imploded with over 1,000 pounds of explosives. The demolition and its preparation were filmed for the National Geographic Channel and a program called Blowdown: Vegas Casino. The hotel's marquee remained standing until December 10, 2008 when it was taken down at the request of Steve Wynn prior to the opening of the Encore Las Vegas across the street.The Las Vegas Plaza project was cancelled around November 2011. Wynn said that he would not bail out the project and blamed the failure of the development on Yitzhak Tshuva and Nochi Dankner's paying too much for the property. |
| Link to: New Frontier Implosion
Link to: New Frontier Wikipedia |
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| November 15th |
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| 2019 - Friday |
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| 1945 - Las Vegas, NV. Club Savoy opens at 116 East Fremont, downtown Las Vegas. |
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| 1950 - Reno, NV. Frontier Saloon opens. Frontier Saloon was located in Lincoln Alley, a section of the Frontier Club that was licensed separately until May 31, 1952, for slots and 21. |
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| 1993 - Vicksburg, MS. Harrah's opens. |
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| 2001 - Paradise Nevada. Palms Casino Resort is a hotel and casino located near the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. It has 703 rooms and suites and contains 94,840 sq ft casino, recording studio, Michelin-starred restaurant, and 2,500-seat concert theater. The Fantasy Tower is also home to several nightlife venues including Moon Nightclub and The View. The tower holds what are known as the Sky Villas and Fantasy Suites, which are some of the most expensive hotel suites in the world. The two-story Sky Villa on the top floor billed at US$40,000 per night, is listed at number 5 on the World's 15 Most Expensive Hotel Suites compiled by CNN Go in March 2012. |
| Link to: The Palms Website
Link to: The Palms Wikipedia |
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| November 16th |
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| 2019 - Saturday |
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| 1966 - Las Vegas, NV. Goldy's Casino opens at 22 East Fremont, downtown Las Vegas . |
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| 1994 - Elgin, IL. Grand Victoria casino opens. |
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| 2001 - Las Vegas, NV. Clifford Jones died in the Life Care Center of Las Vegas after a lengthy illness. He was 89. A two-term lieutenant governor from 1947 to 1954, Jones became known as "Big Juice" for having the clout and connections to get deals made. Jones was granted a 2 percent interest in the Pioneer Club in exchange for helping the club obtain its lease and gaming license. He parlayed that interest into a stake in the El Cortez -- the beginning of a gaming career that took him round the world and led him to have interests in the Algiers, Dunes, El Cortez, Golden Nugget, Pioneer, Thunderbird and Westerner casinos. |
| Link to: Clifford A Jones Wikipedia
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| Clifford Jones on the Right |
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| 2004 - Las Vegas, NV. The closure of the Desert Inn in 2000 and subsequent demolition was unpopular with many as it seemed to mark the end of old Las Vegas. Historian Michael Green stated: "To a lot of people outside of Las Vegas, these two places (the Desert Inn and the Sands) really meant Las Vegas. These were the places that represent the images of Las Vegas, in a far greater way than the Dunes, the Aladdin, the Hacienda and the Landmark". Robert Maheu, Howard Hughes's publicist for many years, remarked that the "Desert Inn was the gem of Las Vegas". The hotel remained popular with locals until the end, as the heavily tourism-driven modern Las Vegas emerged in the 1990s.Desert Inn Road, an east-west Las Vegas Valley roadway, still exists. It is the only major east-west surface street on the Strip that does not connect to Las Vegas Boulevard. |
| Link to: Desert inn Implosion
Link to: The Desert Inn On Wikipedia |
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| 2009 - San Juan, Puerto Rico. Metro Casino (in the Sheraton Convention Center Hotel) opens. |
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