THE SECRETS OF CASINOS – Las Vegas neon signs and casinos
The history of Vegas is closely linked to the history of neon. In fact, Las Vegas even has a Neon Museum (neonmuseum.org). You will find in the following article a brief history of neon in Vegas and the reasons why Neon has been one of the Casino Secrets for almost 100 years. A Frenchman made Vegas history The inventor of neon was engineer Claude Georges. Inspired by Heinrich Geissler’s ‘Geissler tubes’, he realized...
The famous Mirage Hotel and Casino Las Vegas is closing after 34 years of existence
The Mirage Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip will soon close after more than three decades in business. The 3,000-room resort will cease operations on July 17 while undergoing a three-year renovation that will erase all traces of the Mirage and its tropical theme. Opened in 1989 by casino magnate Steve Wynn, Mirage ushered in an era of luxury resorts on the Strip and was the first resort to have a sidewalk attraction with its...
The story of Tony Cornero and the Stardust Casino
Like so many of Las Vegas’ beautiful stories, the story of Antonio Cornero Stralla – founder of Stardust Casino, starts from a story of life, survival and through a native entrepreneurial talent to the realization of an ambition in troubled times when hardly anyone could do business in the Nevada desert without the East Coast family being involved. The beginning of Tony Cornero’s story In the summer of 1899, Antonio...
