Ever wonder what the then-Portugese enclave was like before Stanley Ho came along and built a casino empire that would change the visage of Macao irrevocably and beyond recognition, potentially eclipsing Las Vegas itself? Here are some vignettes circa 1960.
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Ever wonder what Vegas looked like before the Mob was driven out?
I googled “Las Vegas in 1960” and found this slide show at the Las Vegas Sun site, dated today, 4/13:
http://www.lasvegassun.com/photos/galleries/2009/jan/06/mob-vegas/
I had a friend who used to live in Hong Kong in the 1960s; he often talked about going to Macau (when it was a Portuguese colony) to gamble, and how the “underground economy” was run by Chinese gangs (hongs?). According to him the place was largely corrupt, but tourists who came to gamble were safe from harm.
Sound familiar?
BTW, David – Nice redesign of the site: clean & crisp. Might take us awhile to get used to it, though, before you see more Comments added. Think this will solve the “disappearing comments” problem, or is it just a cosmetic change?
That is amazing. I know 1960 was last century, but Macau looks two or three centuries old. Steve Wynn was 18 years old when this was filmed. Even he couldn’t envision the Macau of today.
One of the street names was Don Quixote. I thought the book was Spanish, not Portugese?
It’s a little of both, Kerr. Comments are still being held hostage in “Spam” but some of the other functionality (links, pictures and other formatting disappearing from the front page) has been solved. The wider spacing between paragraphs is probably an improvement, too. Our previous format, “Gravel” was falling apart like a jalopy, so it had to be ditched, even though I was fond of its look and color scheme.
I’ll have to get back to you on that Cervantes thing, Detroit. Wikipedia, here I come!
I guess the Portugese simply appreciate great literature. Cervantes’ career was mostly divided between Spain and Naples (although it encompassed many adventures), plus five years of slavery in Algiers. He was made of pretty stern stuff, that guy.