In The News: Department of History

Press Of Atlantic City

Gary Smith can thank Resorts Casino Hotel for both his and his mother’s careers. Marge Washburn, Smith’s mother, was a first-day employee as a waitress at the buffet in the casino, then named Resorts International, when it opened May 26, 1978, and went down in history as the first casino hotel in Atlantic City and the first legal U.S. casino outside Nevada.

Nevada Independent

The Historic Commercial Center neighborhood about a mile east of the Las Vegas Strip has a storied history as a haunt for the Rat Pack in the 60s and a haven for LGBTQ+ communities from the 70s to the late 90s.

KTNV-TV: ABC 13

Monday marks the 118th birthday of the City of Las Vegas. In more than a century since the city was established, nearly 650,000 people have come to call it home.

Casino.org

The myth of Hoover Dam’s entombed owes to how large the structure has loomed over Las Vegas for nearly 100 years.

Casino.org

The Las Vegas Strip has been the heart of gambling in the US for decades. But gambling is no longer the heart of the Las Vegas Strip. Over the last 30 years, casino profits have slowly shifted to nongambling sources.

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Casino.org

Nevada’s US Senator Key Pittman died a few days before the November 1940 reelection that he was favored to win in a landslide. His body was preserved in a bathtub full of ice so his seat could remain Democratic. Or, so the story goes.

The List

Summer means a few things: ice cream cones, tee shirt sweat stains, and a range of new style opportunities. Thanks to the 20-year nostalgia cycle, fashion staples from the '90s and early aughts are having a moment. Whether it's the runway or red carpet, we're seeing the return of low-rise jeans, plenty of butterfly clips, and tube tops.

Associated Press

Panelists at a major casino industry conference said the construction of three new casinos in New York could cost Atlantic City 20% to 30% of its casino revenue, a development that could possibly return the resort to the days of casino closures.

The History Channel

The carnage of the war was so extreme that historians have had a difficult time agreeing on exactly how many people lost their lives.

Las Vegas Review-Journal En Español

The shuttered Hawaiian Marketplace shopping complex has been razed to make way for a new 300,000-square-foot shopping center on the east side of Las Vegas Boulevard, just south of Harmon Avenue.

KTNV-TV: ABC 13

Las Vegas residents are one step closer to not having to drive to Primm to play the lottery.