Bugsy’s original $6 million 200-room Flamingo was in the same location as today’s 3,565-room megaresort. The casino was set back a bit from the Strip (then known as the L.A. Highway); the low-rise garden-room bungalows were situated in the area now occupied by the 15-acre pool complex.
The notorious four-story Oregon Building, where Siegel built himself a veritable fortress on the fourth floor, was the last of the original buildings to be torn down; it was replaced with the 440-unit Flamingo timeshare tower to the rear of the property, overlooking the pool on the west side and Audrie Street on the east.
A little monument to Siegel, complete with a bronze plaque with his likeness etched into it, is in the general vicinity of the bungalows. The plaque is at the end of a small rose garden, commemorating the original roses that, the story goes, Siegel himself planted.
