Quick Fact – Dancing Waters
1955 A dancing waters routine at the new Royal Nevada hotel-casino upstaged big-money entertainers — Carmen Miranda, Danny Thomas, Liberace and others — in Las Vegas, Nevada. The five fountains of...
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Vivian Blaine in Guys and Dolls in New York, 1953 1955 At least 10 hotel-casinos on the Las Vegas Strip offered entertainment, typically marquee names like Liberace and Mario Lanza, who’d played Sin...
View ArticleReplicated Casinos: Who, Why, When and Where
Dealer training school for African Americans in Las Vegas, 1971 1957, 1962, 1968, 1974 Over the years, entities around the world fashioned casinos for various educational and training purposes. Here...
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