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2009-03-19
I have an authenticated, autographed business card for "The Jim Thorpe Supper Club & Casino." Yes, THAT Jim Thorpe. He died on March 28, 1953. The card also says "Pittman, Nevada." Where is/was Pittman? When was this casino/supper club open? What all can you tell us about it?
2009-03-10
This being the fourth anniversary of HST's choice to leave this plane ... where exactly was the Mint casino and what is the history of the MINT 400?
2009-03-08
What do you make of the big flap over President Obama dissing Las Vegas as a place to hold a convention?
2009-03-04
There was a little blurb in our newspaper last Sunday about the mob museum in Las Vegas. How long will it be till it's opened?
2009-03-02
I have a vague recollection that Debbie Reynolds once had a casino and hotel in Las Vegas. How’s my memory? Is it so that there was a Debbie Reynolds Casino & Hotel?
2009-02-26
In the 2/21/09 QoD, you said Handsome Ed Clark wasn’t the father of Clark County. So who was this "Clark" who the county was named for?
2009-02-24
I was wondering if you could discuss the history of Piero’s Italian Cuisine on Paradise and Convention Center Drive. I’ve been told it used to have a different name and was popular mob hangout.
2009-02-20
Is Clark County named after Ed Clark and is Cashman Field named after James Cashman?
2009-02-07
What information, if any, can you give of former Frontier and new TI owner, Kansas businessman Phil Ruffin? Does he have a long background in casinos or is he some Johnny-come-lately?
2009-02-04
Just returned from a successful (won a little and used LVA coupons) trip to Vegas and was driving on Paradise between Flamingo and Tropicana and saw the Thomas and Mack center. Who are (were) Thomas and Mack? Hope I got the two names right.
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