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Howard Hughes' Vegas Hotels

While the billionaire ushered in the corporate era, his Las Vegas Strip properties failed to achieve spectacular success. Learn more about this part of our history through UNLV Special Collections.

The Las Vegas Strip, 1968 showing four of the Hughes properties: the Silver Slipper, the Frontier, the Desert Inn, and the Sands in the background. (Photos courtesy of UNLV Libraries / Howard Hughes Collection)

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