Gaming History - Week of May 02, 2021
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| May 2nd |
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| 2021 - Sunday |
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| 1931 - Las Vegas, NV. The Meadows opens, Las Vegas - owned by Tony Cornero, who would later begin building the Stardust. |
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| 1953 - Reno, NV. Jolly Jolly Club opened at 2600 South Virginia Street. It was a bar with one 21 game, until July of 1954, when it became the PJ Club which didn't have gaming. |
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| May 3rd |
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| 2021 - Monday |
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| 1950 - Washington, DC. TThe U.S. Senate established a five-member Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce. Sensitive to the desire of several standing committees to conduct the investigation, Senate party leaders selected the special committee's members from the committees on Interstate Commerce and the Judiciary, including each panel's senior Republican. As chairman, the Democratic majority designated an ambitious freshman—Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver. |
| Link to: Senator Estes Kefauver
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| Senator Estes Kefauver |
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| 1978 - Reno, NV. In 1975, officials from the Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Company began to scout out Reno locations for their proposed high rise hotel-casino they wanted to model after their very high profile Las Vegas casino, the MGM Grand. Following a deal with and approval from the City Council, MGM purchased land at the intersection of Mill and 2nd Streets, at that time a gravel pit. The Summer of 1976 saw construction begin on the 26 story, 1,015 room property that would then be one of the largest in the world. After two years of fast tracked construction, the building opened with fanfare, fashion and media attention on May 3, 1978. |
| Link to: MGM Grand Wikipedia
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| May 4th |
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| 2021 - Tuesday |
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| 1934 - Las Vegas, NV. Apache Casino opens at 124 E. Fremont, in the Apache Hotel, downtown Las Vegas. |
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| 1993 - Joliet, IL. Harrah's casino opens. |
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| 1999 - Las Vegas, NV. The Venetian Hotel & Casino opens at 3335 Las Vegas Blvd., on the Las Vegas Strip.The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino is a five-diamond luxury hotel and casino resort situated between Harrah's and The Palazzo on the east side of the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, on the site of the old Sands Hotel. |
| Link to: The Venetian Website
Link to: The Venetian Wikipedia |
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| Artist rendering included in Pre-Opening package |
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| 2004 - Shreveport, LA. Sam's Town casino opens. |
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| 2015 - Las Vegas, NV. In February 2015, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority acquired the Riviera hotel and its associated land for $182.5 million. The property was leased back to its existing operators, Paragon Gaming, who officially closed the establishment on Monday, May 4, 2015. After winding down operations the hotel was closed and demolished to make way for a planned expansion of LVCVA's Las Vegas Global Business District exhibit and meeting center project.Due to its size, the Riviera was demolished through two separate implosions conducted in June and August 2016, while smaller demolition work took place during the summer. Much of the property was demolished during the first implosion. Asbestos was discovered in the hotel's Monte Carlo tower and was removed prior to the implosion. Demolition cost a total of $42 million.The first implosion took place at 2:35 am on June 14, 2016, taking down the 24-story Monaco tower. A firework display and countdown led up to the implosion.
On August 16, 2016 at 2:30 am, . |
| Link to: Riviera Wikipedia
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| May 5th |
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| 2021 - Wednesday |
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| 2001 - Hammond, IN. Empress casino closes, becomes Horseshoe casino. |
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| May 6th |
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| 2021 - Thursday |
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| 1950 - Las Vegas, NV. The Westerner opens at 23 Fremont Street, downtown Las Vegas. |
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| May 8th |
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| 2021 - Saturday |
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| 1892 - Reno, NV. Lew Hymers was born, in Reno, Nevada. Lew Hymers was an artist and caricaturist whose work was used on numerous casino ads, matchbooks, postcards and even a casino chip, in the 1940's and 1950's. |
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| An ad by Lew Hymers |
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| 1931 - Reno, NV. The New York Club opened at 224 North Center Street. The glamorous Club was designed to appeal to ladies, both local and those who were in town to establish the residency required to obtain a divorce. In 1935 the Greyhound Company bought the club, and established a bus depot at that location. |
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| 1940 - Reno, NV. Martin's Bar, at 22 East Commercial Row, was licensed for poker only. It closed less than eight months later. |
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| 1992 - Badsteben, Germany. Harold Smith, Jr. passed away at the age of 59, in a cancer clinic in Germany. |
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