Monday, May 16, 2005
Crime bosses
Organised crime bosses are widely believed to have played a key role in bankrolling the construction of hotels, helping to speed up the city's development in the 1950s.
Hotel-casinos fronted a two-lane highway leading into Las Vegas from Los Angeles. This eventually became what is now known as the Strip
# posted by Michael P. Whelan : 9:42 PM
