The Tally-Ho was the Tudor-inpired dream of a New York broker named Edwin Lowe, who wanted to build an elegant country-club-style hotel on the Strip that did not include a casino.
Construction began on the Tally-Ho, which featured leaded windows and half-timbering, in the winter of 1962. The property opened in February, 1963. Within a year it had failed, proving Lowe about four decades ahead of his time.
Various investors subsequently took over the bankrupt property, which was renamed the Kings Crown Tally Ho Hotel, but the lack of a gaming license, which the Gaming Control Board refused to issue, proved to be an ongoing obstacle to success.
Finally, in early 1966, former Sahara co-owner Milton Prell took over and reopened the property -- now complete with gaming license and casino -- as the Aladdin. That, however, proved to be only the beinning of the next bumpy chapter in the long history of the center-Strip hotel currently known as Planet Hollywood...
Click here and scroll down to see some historic photographs of the Tally-Ho.
