Nevada's Golden Age of Gambling

by Al W Moe

Overview

Dozens of Vintage Photos of Las Vegas, Reno and Lake Tahoe in this Edition!

Before "Bugsy" Siegel" opened the Flamingo casino and created the Las Vegas Strip, the Mob was hard at work stealing Downtown casinos like the Las Vegas Club and the El Cortez from their original owners. Reno casino owners resorted to arson and murder to keep their money flowing, and they had Lake Tahoe casinos in their pocket too!

Nevada's Golden Age of Gambling is a photo-rich history of the casinos from 1931 to 1981. All about the building of empires from Reno and Lake Tahoe to Las Vegas and a dozen other Nevada casino towns.

Stories detail how the casinos were built, who the major gaming pioneers were, and how they managed to build Nevada from a agriculture and mining based economy into the greatest gaming empire in the world.

Chapters include the history of casinos and their founders from Bill Harrah and "Pappy" Smith, to Moe Dalitz, "Bugsy" Siegel, and dozens of others.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940152757712
Publisher:	Al Moe
Publication date:	11/16/2015
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

Al W Moe is the author of five nonfiction books and a novel. As a casino fanatic, he toured the clubs of Nevada taking 100's of photos and gathering interviews and stories from everyone he could convince to talk to him - from slot change people to casino owners.

His non-fiction works chronicle the early days of Nevada casinos and relate the stories of how the Mob influenced gaming, how a "new" face, Howard Hughes, ushered in a change to corporate ownership, and how the casinos have expanded over the years. Each book includes dozens of vintage photos from Las Vegas, Reno, Lake Tahoe, and other Nevada cities.

Moe is also an avid blogger with several popular blogs on sites like Casino Gaming at About.com and his casino story blog at NevadaCasinoHistory.blogspot.com