{"id":483,"date":"2015-04-02T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T18:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lva.local\/secure\/shop\/products\/on-the-boulevard\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T11:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T19:02:14","slug":"on-the-boulevard","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/products\/on-the-boulevard\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Boulevard"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"bios\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0929712692\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0929712692&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=huntingtonpre-20&amp;linkId=5068b513d3f1cc990ecdb1b61a98bd0c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-609763 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Amazon_button1.png?resize=100%2C30&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"100\" height=\"30\" \/><\/a><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>On the Boulevard<\/i> brings together the best writing of Las Vegas&#8217; most popular columnist, the <em>Las Vegas Review-Journal&#8217;s<\/em> John L. Smith. Smith provides singular insights into the fast, fluid, and often funny town he&#8217;s chronicled for nearly 20 years. Subjects include: former Las Vegas mayor and Mob mouthpiece Oscar Goodman, legendary slot cheat Bill Land, and seldom-chronicled gambling icons such as Mel Exber (Las Vegas Club), Si Redd (<span class=\"caps\">IGT<\/span>), and Big Julie Weintraub (&#8217;60s junket operator).<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"bios\">About The Author<\/h4>\n<table class=\"bios\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Formerly the most widely read columnist in Nevada,\u00a0<strong>John L. Smith<\/strong>\u00a0has been honored by the National Headliner Awards, the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, and the Nevada Press Association. In 2001, John was named a finalist for the prestigious Batten Medal. He appears regularly on national television shows and was a featured source for the award-winning British documentary &#8220;Mob Law: The True Story of Oscar Goodman.&#8221; A prolific author, Smith has also written <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/products\/no-limit\/\"><em>No Limit\u2014The Rise and Fall of Bob Stupak and Las Vegas\u2019 Stratosphere Tower<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/products\/of-rats-and-men\/\"><em>Of Rats and Men\u2014Oscar Goodman\u2019s Life from Mob Mouthpiece to Mayor of Las Vegas<\/em><\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/products\/quicksilver\/\"><em>Quicksilver\u2014The Ted Binion Murder Case.<\/em><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Las Vegas\u2019 best-read columnist dishes on everything from politics to the mob. John L. Smith\u2019s unparalleled connections in the casino world yield an insider\u2019s perspective not found in other books on Las Vegas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"product_cat":[39,38,518,378],"product_tag":[149,157,160,330,329,554,166],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}