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Poll Preview: What are your favorite casino names?
This poll idea was suggested by Martin V., a frequent contributor to LVA.com. He writes, "From today’s QoD [on Boyd's resurrection of the Stardust brand], there seems to be a lot of interest in casino names. Maybe this could be a future poll of some kind: What is your favorite casino name, past or present? Or what is the worst casino name of all time? (THEhotel springs to mind)."
Pending poll-preview opinions, we're opting for favorite over least favorite casino names. Naturally, the least favorite (or worst) will wind up at the bottom of the results. Also, to help us cover the many many casino names in Las Vegas history, we're ordering them chronologically, which is a lot of information in its own right.
Our list is comprehensive, but we're sure it isn't exhaustive (and our order might be slightly off). We've ignored small short-lived casinos (such as the Barrel House Club, 1934-1938, and the Golden Slot, 1954-1958), and we didn't include Henderson or North Las Vegas casinos; there are already 136 names. But please let us know in the comments which important Vegas casinos we've inevitably, though inadvertently, overlooked or misplaced.
And by the way, again, as with many of our history answers, we found the website VintageLasVegas.com to be invaluable for this list. If you're at all into Las Vegas history and haven't found your way to this site, we highly recommend you do.
The Meadows
Northern Club
Red Rooster
Pair-O-Dice Club
Railroad Pass
Las Vegas Club
Apache
91 Club
Boulder Club
Sal Sagev
Frontier Club
El Rancho Vegas
Pioneer Club
El Cortez
Turf Club
The Players
Eldorado
Frontier
Golden Nugget
Flamingo
Thunderbird
Coin Castle
Westerner
Horseshoe
Sahara
Desert Inn
Silver Slipper
Jackpot Club
Fortune Club
Nevada Club
Lucky Strike Club
Golden Gate
Showboat
Dunes
Riviera
Royal Nevada
Moulin Rouge
New Frontier
Fremont
Hacienda
Silver Palace
Sans Souci
Mint
Tropicana
Stardust
Club Bingo
Carousel
Castaways
Westward Ho
Lady Luck
Klondike
Four Queens
Aladdin
Caesars Palace
Circus Circus
Little Caesars
International
Landmark
Royal Las Vegas
Western
Bally's
Golden Goose
Union Plaza
Marina
Holiday Inn
Continental
California
Silver City
Stage Door
Gold Spike
Silverbird
Bingo Palace
Friendly Club
Maxim
Vegas World
Sam's Town
Barbary Coast
Imperial Palace
Sundance
Sassy Sally's
Bourbon Street
El Rancho
Bally's
Key Largo
Gold Coast
Fitzgeralds
Boardwalk
Arizona Charlie's
Harrah's
Palace Station
Ellis Island
San Remo
Mirage
Rio
Excalibur
Vacation Village
Paddlewheel
Holy Cow!
Debbie Reynolds
Luxor
Treasure Island
MGM Grand
Fiesta
Boulder Station
Hard Rock
Texas Station
Stratosphere
New York-New York
Main Street Station
Orleans
Sunset Station
Reserve
Bellagio
Mandalay Bay
Tuscany
Venetian
Paris
Mermaids
La Bayou
Palms
Greek Isles
South Point
Red Rock
Bill's Gambling Saloon
Eastside Cannery
Aria
The M
Clarion
Cosmopolitan
The D
Cromwell
Lucky Dragon
SLS
Park MGM
Virgin
Resorts World
We visited the Mob Museum on our last visit. We saw that the museum is housed in the courthouse where the Kefauver hearings were held. I didn't think I was interested in that, so I didn't read about it while we were there. But later I began wondering about them. Who was Kefauver, what were the hearings about, and why were they a big deal?