History directory

History records

• 49'er Club: A Fremont Street Casino That Lasted Months — Las Vegas, Nevada
• Across State Lines: The Places Connected With Meyer Lansky — Florida · Cuba · Caribbean
• Arizona Club: Las Vegas Before the Strip — Las Vegas, Nevada
• Bar of Music: Jazz at an Early Highway Nightclub — Las Vegas, Nevada
• Binion's Horseshoe: The Downtown Casino That Made Poker a Spectacle — Las Vegas, Nevada
• Bird Cage: A Casino That Lost on the Lucky Corner — Las Vegas, Nevada
• Bonnie Springs: A Family-Made Old West Below Red Rock — Las Vegas, Nevada
• Boulder Club: From Pre-Legal Gambling to the Horseshoe — Las Vegas, Nevada
• Brown Derby: A Long-Lived Westside Gathering Place — Las Vegas, Nevada
• Bucket of Blood: A Saloon Above Layers of Comstock History — Nevada
• Bugsy Siegel: Organized Crime, Hollywood and the Flamingo — Las Vegas · Los Angeles
• Cactus Pete's: The Border Casino That Helped Create Jackpot — Nevada
• Caesars Palace: Building and Reinventing a Roman Resort — Las Vegas, Nevada
• Capitol Club: gambling, music, and everyday life in Ely — Ely, Nevada
• Chesterfield Club: A Casino Preserved in Its Chip Orders — Las Vegas, Nevada
• Chickadee and Louisiana Club: Food, Gaming and Cross-Community Business — Las Vegas, Nevada
• Christy & Jones
• Circus Circus: The Casino That Put the Show Above the Tables — Las Vegas, Nevada
• Club Ebony: A Brief Casino and a Lasting Labor Story — Las Vegas, Nevada
• Club Greenacres: Gambling Beyond Florida's Tourist Highway — Hallandale, Florida
• Cotton Club: A Complete Night Out on the Westside — Las Vegas, Nevada
• Dean Martin: The Work Behind Las Vegas Effortlessness — Las Vegas · national career
• Dolly Parton: Reinventing the Las Vegas Engagement — Las Vegas · national career
• Eddie's Fabulous 50s: Reno Gambles on Nostalgia — Northern Nevada
• El Cortez: Downtown Las Vegas Across Eight Decades — Las Vegas, Nevada
• El Morocco: Rebuilding a Westside Casino — Las Vegas, Nevada
• Elvis Presley: From a Miscast Dinner Show to Las Vegas Reinvention — Las Vegas · national career
• Exchange Club: First Street and the Legalization of Gambling — Las Vegas, Nevada
• Frank Sinatra: The Singer and the Las Vegas Room — Las Vegas · national career
• Frontier Club: Guy McAfee's Downtown Gambling Room — Las Vegas, Nevada
• Golden Goose: Herb Pastor's Small Fremont Street Gamble — Las Vegas, Nevada
• Goldfield: A Grand Hotel in a Gambling Boomtown — Nevada
• Green Lantern: The First Gaming Room at 501 Jackson — Las Vegas, Nevada
• Harlem Club: Wartime Recreation in a Segregated City — Las Vegas, Nevada
• Harolds Club: Making Casino Gambling Approachable — Northern Nevada
• Harrah's Reno: From Small Bingo Ventures to a Casino Institution — Northern Nevada
• Hotel Apache: Downtown Luxury Before the Horseshoe — Las Vegas, Nevada
• Hotel Nacional: A Historic Hotel and a Contested Casino Chapter — Havana, Cuba
• Hotel Nevada: Ely's Landmark Through Boom, Crisis, and Revival — Nevada
• John Ascuaga's Nugget: The Casino That Grew With Sparks — Northern Nevada
• Las Vegas Gun Club: Shooting Sports and a Brief Casino Record — Las Vegas, Nevada
• Liberace: The Musician Who Made Las Vegas Showmanship Personal — Las Vegas · national career
• Lucky Luciano: Organization, Prosecution, and Exile — Las Vegas · national network
• Luxor: The Pyramid and Its Changing Interior World — Las Vegas, Nevada
• Mapes Hotel & Casino — Reno, Nevada
• Meyer Lansky: Gambling Networks and the Limits of the Legend — Las Vegas · national network
• Miners Club: Ely at the beginning of legal gambling — Ely, Nevada
• Moulin Rouge: The Resort That Challenged Segregated Las Vegas — Las Vegas, Nevada
• Pair-O-Dice: the roadside club before the Frontier — Las Vegas, Nevada
• Paul-Son / Paulson
• Round-Up Casino: A New Game Mix on Jackson Avenue — Las Vegas, Nevada
• Sammy Davis Jr.: Talent, Access, and the Las Vegas Showroom — Las Vegas · national career
• Showboat Hotel & Casino — Las Vegas, Nevada
• Smokey Joe's Club Alabama: Two Months of Westside History — Las Vegas, Nevada
• Sundance: Downtown Las Vegas Builds Upward — Las Vegas, Nevada
• T. R. King & Co.
• Tahoe Biltmore and the Nevada Lodge — Northern Nevada
• The Bank Club: Ely’s downtown gathering place — Ely, Nevada
• The Big Casino: Tonopah’s mining-boom nightlife — Nevada
• The Bullpen: Gambling Inside Nevada State Prison — Carson City, Nevada
• The Colonial Inn: Nightlife and Hidden Interests in Hallandale — Hallandale, Florida
• The Eldorado Club: Between the Rex and Binion's Horseshoe — Las Vegas, Nevada
• The Green Shack: Fried Chicken, Dam Workers, and Local Las Vegas — Las Vegas, Nevada
• The Hacienda: A Family Resort at the Edge of the Strip — Las Vegas, Nevada
• The Havana Riviera: A Casino Resort on the Eve of Revolution — Havana, Cuba
• The Historic Westside: The Neighborhood Behind Las Vegas Nightlife — Las Vegas, Nevada
• The International Hotel: A New Scale for Las Vegas — Las Vegas, Nevada
• The Louvre Saloon, Reno — Northern Nevada
• The Meadows Club: an early Las Vegas destination resort — Las Vegas, Nevada
• The Mizpah Club: Gambling and Revival in Tonopah — Tonopah, Nevada
• The North Shore Club, Crystal Bay — Northern Nevada
• The Northern Club: Mayme Stocker and Las Vegas License No. 1 — Las Vegas, Nevada
• The Oberon Sporting Parlors, Reno — Northern Nevada
• The Palace Club, Reno — Northern Nevada
• The Pioneer Club: the casino beneath Vegas Vic — Las Vegas, Nevada
• The Rex Club: a gambling-ship name comes to Fremont Street — Las Vegas, Nevada
• The Riverside Hotel, Reno — Northern Nevada
• The Sneak Joint: a neighborhood casino off the Strip — Las Vegas, Nevada
• The Tonopah Club: from silver-camp saloon to town institution — Nevada
• The Western: Low Stakes and Local Life on East Fremont — Las Vegas, Nevada
• Town Tavern: Music, Gaming and Community on Jackson Avenue — Las Vegas, Nevada
• West Side Club: Chinese-American Operators and Black Nightlife — Las Vegas, Nevada