Las Vegas Casino History
Las Vegas is in fact the mother city of all gambling and casinos. It's an entire city dedicated to the cause of endless entertainment, luxury and of course big money gambling. The gambling history of Las Vegas casino is a very interesting one. What started out to be a dusty desert has now grown to be one of the most glorious entertainment cities on the face of the earth.
Sin City has seen steady economic growth over the years. Nevada was the first city to legalize gambling in the United States. The El Rancho Casino was one of the first casinos to emerge in the year 1941. Seeing the success of the El Rancho, several other casinos popped up in the following years. The famous Flamingo Casino with its iconic pink neon flamingo situated outside the city limits on the Los Angeles highway was opened to public on New Year's Eve in 1946.
In the year 1950 Las Vegas witnessed the emergence of hundreds of casinos which came into existence in the form of resorts which housed all things related to gambling. These splendid casino resorts included the Sahara, the Tropicana and the Riviera. Betty Willis created The "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" sign, and it was successfully erected in the year 1959. Las Vegas soon became synonymous with glamour and high fashion when a huge amount of investments came from the tinsel town of Hollywood. A-list parties and gala events were becoming more frequent in Las Vegas and soon the city became the perfect weekend destination.
Las Vegas burst into activity and more and more casinos and casino resorts were being constructed to accommodate and entertain guests from all across the country. Later in the 1960s many corporations began to invest in this industry by buying the casinos and reshaping them to become bigger and better. During the 2025s, 18 new venues for gambling were built and many were built with themes revolving around the world's major cities.
The outskirts of the city of Las Vegas known as the 'Strip' which is around 4 km of length was an ideal location for the establishment of many of the well know Vegas Casino hotels which includes the Palms, Venetian Casino Resort, Circus Hotel-Casino, Casino Royale & Hotel, Flamingo Las Vegas, Caesars Palace, Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Bally's Las Vegas, Excalibur Hotel-Casino and many others.
Now Las Vegas has hundreds of elaborate resorts, theme parks and many other attractions which have brought in thousands of tourists, visitors and gamblers from across the globe. Today, The Las Vegas Strip has changed in a rapid manner, and as time passed, the golden era of casinos were demolished and reconstructed as the modern casino destination.