THE FLAMINGO HOTEL - LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - RARE - VINTAGE CASINO - UNUSED - DICE

Description

FOR  YOUR  CONSIDERATION
:
A VINTAGE PAIR OF: NEVADA CASINO - UN-USED DICE
FROM THE:
"
FABULOUS
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FLAMINGO HOTEL
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A DIVISION OF
: CAESAR'S ENTERTAINMENT.
This auction is for an original and wonderful vintage and quite rare: Nevada casino un-used Pair of Dice, w/ great graphics, from the by - gone days of the:
Fabulous
Flamingo Hotel and Casino.
The Flamingo
is still located on the fabulous: Las Vegas Strip, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Just a bit of:
The Fabulous Flamingo Hotel,
information:
Flamingo Las Vegas
(formerly:
The Fabulous Flamingo
and
Flamingo
Hilton
Las Vegas
) is a
casino hotel
on the
Las Vegas Strip
in
Paradise, Nevada
. It is owned and operated by;
Caesars Entertainment
.
The property includes a 72,299 square-foot casino along with 3,460 hotel rooms. The architectural theme is reminiscent of the
Art Deco
and
Streamline Moderne
style of
Miami
and
South Beach
. Staying true to its theme and name, the hotel includes a garden courtyard which serves as a wildlife habitat for
flamingos
. The hotel was the third resort to open on the Strip and remains the oldest resort on the Strip in operation today, and it has been since 2007 with the closure and demolition of
The New Frontier
. It is also the last remaining casino on the strip that opened before 1950 that is still in operation.
The Flamingo
, has a
Las Vegas Monorail
station called the
Flamingo & Caesars Palace station
at the rear of the property. After opening in 1946, it has undergone a number of ownership changes.
A bit of:
Flamingo,
History
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Land background and hotel design (1945)
:
The
Flamingo
site occupies 40 acres originally owned by one of Las Vegas' first settlers, Charles "Pops" Squires. Squires paid .75 an acre for the land. In 1944, Margaret Folsom bought the tract for ,500 from Squires, and she then later sold it to
Billy Wilkerson
. Wilkerson was the owner of:
The Hollywood Reporter
,
as well as some very popular nightclubs in the Sunset Strip:
Cafe Trocadero
,
Ciro's
and
La Rue's
(Hollywood).
In 1945, Wilkerson purchased 33 acres on the east side of
U.S. Route 91
, or about a mile south of the:
Hotel Last Frontier
, in preparation for his vision. Wilkerson then hired George Vernon Russell to design a hotel influenced by European style. Wilkerson also requested that the hotel be different from the "sawdust joints" on Fremont Street. He planned a hotel with luxurious rooms, a spa, a health club, a showroom, a golf course, a nightclub, an upscale restaurant and a French-style casino. Because of high wartime material costs, Wilkerson ran into financial problems almost at once, finding himself 0,000 short and hunting for new financing.
The Flamingo Hotel & Casino opens (1946)
"The West's Greatest Resort Hotel", matchbook advertising the Flamingo resort, circa 1946
Siegel finally opened:
The Flamingo Hotel & Casino,
on December 26, 1946, at a total cost of million. Billed as "The West's Greatest Resort Hotel", the 105-room property – and first luxury hotel on the Strip – was built 4 miles (6.4 km) from
Downtown Las Vegas
. During construction, a large sign announced the hotel as a William R. Wilkerson project. The sign also read:
Del Webb Construction
, as the hotel's primary contractor and Richard R. Stadelman (who later made renovations to:
the
El Rancho Vegas
) as the building architect.
Allegedly, Siegel named the resort after his girlfriend,
Virginia Hill
, who loved to gamble and was nicknamed "Flamingo". It is reported that Siegel called her this because of her long, skinny legs. Organized crime king,
Lucky Luciano
, wrote in his memoir that Siegel once owned an interest in the:
Hialeah Park Race Track
, and viewed the flamingos who populated nearby as a good omen. The "
Flamingo
" name is reported to have been given to the project at its inception by Wilkerson.
Condition is as follows:
This vintage pair of - casino un-used dice, display some tears, as well as paper loss on the original Flamingo packaging, some staining on the packaging from tape residue.
Please see the provided pictures.
Approximate dimensions are as follows:
1
1/2
”
x
3/4
”
x
3/4
”
Please take a look at the provided photographs, for a better view of the description.
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