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Author : Albert Woods Moe
Publisher : Al Moe
ISBN 13 : 9780971501904
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Nevada's Golden Age of Gambling written by Albert Woods Moe and published by Al Moe. This book was released on 2001 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 59 black and white photos.
Author : Al W. Moe
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781479352654
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (526 download)
Download or read book Nevada's Golden Age of Gambling written by Al W. Moe and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photo-rich history of the first fifty years of Nevada's legalized gambling from 1931 to 1981. Chapters include stories about the most influential pioneers of Nevada gaming including Bill Harrah, "Pappy" Smith, Moe Dalitz, Howard Hughes, George Wingfield, "Bugsy" Siegel, Sil Petricciani, Nick Abelman and dozens more.
Author : Al W. Moe
Publisher : Al Moe
ISBN 13 : 9781439211991
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (119 download)
Download or read book The Roots of Reno written by Al W. Moe and published by Al Moe. This book was released on 2008-10-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reno was truly Hell on Wheels in the 1920's. The rest of the nation considered the town Sodom and Gomorra, but that's only half the truth. Reno offered everything in the way of adult entertainment, from speakeasy's and houses of ill-repute, to open gaming - legal or not. And it took plenty of sins by the founding fathers to make Reno "The biggest little city in the world." When the gold-veins of Tonopah and Goldfield ran out, the casino owners moved to Reno, where even greater riches awaited. Together, a group of four men (Nick Abelman, Bill Graham, Jim McKay, George Wingfield) took over Reno's casinos and held sway over the town for the next three decades. Together they administered policy, collected juice, ran politicians, and owned the red-light district and most of the town's casinos. When that wasn't enough they took over the banks and laundered money for crooks like "Pretty Boy" Floyd, Alvin Karpis, and Ma Barker's boys, and offered safety to "Baby Face" Nelson. It was a good gig. The Reno Four dictated policy all over Northern Nevada, taking special care of Reno and Lake Tahoe casinos up until the late 1950's. Their influence made Reno before Bill Harrah or "Pappy" Smith ever arrived, needing an introduction and permission to build their own casinos, Harold's Club and Harrah's. This is an expansion, an unabridged version of "Mob City - Reno" with much to tell about Nevada's gold mining towns.
Author : Max Votolato
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467136719
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Gardena Poker Clubs: A High-stakes History written by Max Votolato and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Poker capital of the world"--Page [4] of cover.
Author : Jack Harpster
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625852363
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)
Download or read book The Curious Life of Nevada's LaVere Redfield: The Silver Dollar King written by Jack Harpster and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LaVere Redfield was a prolific hoarder. When he died in 1974, his estate was estimated at more than $70 million. Executors found 680 bags of silver coins and 407,000 Morgan and Peace silver dollars in his Reno mansion. A local Reno legend, Redfield gambled regularly in Virginia Street casinos. He survived robbery and burglaries of his home, which contained false walls to store millions of silver dollars. Hating banks and paper money, as well as big government, Redfield opted to serve a prison term for income tax evasion rather than pay his debts from his ample fortune. Join author Jack Harpster for this first book-length study of this unconventional man behind the folklore and the myth.
Author : Dwayne Kling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Rise of the Biggest Little City written by Dwayne Kling and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gaming executive Dwayne Kling records the fruits of his research into the history of Reno's casinos, from the backroom dives of the industry's beginnings to the elegant casino hotels of today. The information is arranged in encyclopaedic form and illustrated with historic photographs.
Author : Guy Clifton
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0738593265
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (385 download)
Download or read book Reno written by Guy Clifton and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reno has always been a small town where big things happen. Long before it adopted the slogan "The Biggest Little City in the World," Reno was visited by presidents, the nation's elite, and those drawn to the city's wide-open, live-and-let live attitude. "The Fight of the Century," between heavyweight boxers Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries brought Reno worldwide attention in 1910, and the legalization of gambling and liberalization of divorce laws in 1931 made the city a national destination. At the same time, Reno never lost its small-town feel, with generations of families and scores of familiar faces building long-standing businesses and instilling a sense of civic pride.
Author : John P. Marschall
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 0874177480
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (741 download)
Download or read book Jews in Nevada written by John P. Marschall and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2011-03-28 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jews have always been one of Nevada’s most active and influential ethnic minorities. They were among the state’s earliest Euro-American settlers, and from the beginning they have been involved in every area of the state’s life as businessmen, agrarians, scholars, educators, artists, politicians, and civic, professional, and religious leaders. Jews in Nevada is an engaging, multilayered chronicle of their lives and contributions to the state. Here are absorbing accounts of individuals and families who helped to settle and develop the state, as well as thoughtful analyses of larger issues, such as the reasons Jews came to Nevada in the first place, how they created homes and interacted with non-Jews, and how they preserved their religious and cultural traditions as a small minority in a sparsely populated region.
Author : Mary Ringhoff
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 0874178525
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (741 download)
Download or read book The River and the Railroad written by Mary Ringhoff and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2011-03-28 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the City of Reno decided at the beginning of this century to create a trench to lower the railroad tracks that ran through its center, archaeologists associated with the ReTRAC (Reno Transportation Rail Access Corridor) project had a unique opportunity to explore the evidence of thousands of years of human history locked beneath downtown’s busy streets. The River and the Railroad traces the people and events that shaped the city, incorporating archaeological findings to add a more tangible physical dimension to the known history. It offers fascinating insights into the lives of many different people from Reno’s past and helps to correct some common misperceptions about the history of the American West.
Author : Nevada Historical Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Nevada Historical Society Quarterly written by Nevada Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Nevada written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Larry D. Gragg
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806165855
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Becoming America's Playground written by Larry D. Gragg and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1950 Las Vegas saw a million tourists. In 1960 it attracted ten million. The city entered the fifties as a regional destination where prosperous postwar Americans could enjoy vices largely forbidden elsewhere, and it emerged in the sixties as a national hotspot, the glitzy resort city that lights up the American West today. Becoming America’s Playground chronicles the vice and the toil that gave Las Vegas its worldwide reputation in those transformative years. Las Vegas’s rise was no happy accident. After World War II, vacationing Americans traveled the country in record numbers, making tourism a top industry in such states as California and Florida. The Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce saw its chance and developed a plan to capitalize on the town’s burgeoning reputation for leisure. Las Vegas pinned its hopes for the future on Americans’ need for escape. Transforming a vice city financed largely by the mob into a family vacation spot was not easy. Hotel and casino publicists closely monitored media representations of the city and took every opportunity to stage images of good, clean fun for the public—posing even the atomic bomb tests conducted just miles away as an attraction. The racism and sexism common in the rest of the nation in the era prevailed in Las Vegas too. The wild success of Frank Sinatra’s Rat Pack performances at the Sands Hotel in 1960 demonstrated the city’s slow progress toward equality. Women couldn’t work as dealers in Las Vegas until the 1970s, yet they found more opportunities for well-paying jobs there than many American women could find elsewhere. Gragg shows how a place like the Las Vegas Strip—with its glitz and vast wealth and its wildly public consumption of vice—rose to prominence in the 1950s, a decade of Cold War anxiety and civil rights conflict. Becoming America’s Playground brings this pivotal decade in Las Vegas into sharp focus for the first time.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1018 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Nevada Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 1018 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : United States. Department of Energy. Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Section 175 Report written by United States. Department of Energy. Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cathy A. Enz
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412905907
Total Pages : 1081 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)
Download or read book The Cornell School of Hotel Administration Handbook of Applied Hospitality Strategy written by Cathy A. Enz and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2010-07-14 with total page 1081 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This state-of-the-art handbook approaches the topics of hospitality strategy with an emphasis on immediate application of ideas to current practice. Top hospitality scholars make original contributions with the inclusion of senior level executives input, insights and current best practices. By incorporating the latest research and thinking on various strategic topics with the commentary and insights of successful executives this handbook blends cutting edge ideas and comprehensive reviews of the subject with innovative illustrations and examples from practice. The strength of the handbook is its combination of academic rigour and hospitality application. The handbook will have a clear reference orientation and focus on key topical issues and problem of interest to practitioners and advanced students of hospitality strategy.
Author : National Conference on Gambling and Risk Taking
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Issues in casino gambling: Nevada and Atlantic City written by National Conference on Gambling and Risk Taking and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
