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Beautifully engraved Certificate from the famous Hollywood Durant-Star Motors, INC issued in 1928. This historic document was printed by the Chipron Stamp Company and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of an eagle. This item is hand signed by the company's president and secretary and is over 72 years old. Resort building continued to accelerate in Las Vegas in the 1950s. Wilbur Clark, once a hotel bellman in San Diego, Calif., opened the Desert Inn in 1950. Two years later, Milton Prell opened the Sahara Hotel on the site of the old Club Bingo. The Sands Hotel opened that same year, 1952. Those hotel names have survived but the properties have undergone numerous ownership changes. In 1955, the Riviera Hotel became the first Strip highrise in at nine stories. Previously, Wilbur Clark's Desert Inn had offered guests the highest unobstructed panoramic view of the Las Vegas Valley from the resort's third-floor Skyroom, a cocktail and dancing haunt of visitors, residents and celebrities. The Aladdin's roots go back to 1962 when New York toy manufacturer Edwin Lowe opened an English Tudor-style motel named the Tally-Ho. It offered no gambling and lasted 10 months. The motel reopened in 1964 as King's Crown. Milton Prell, one of the state's early gambling figures, bought the resort in 1966 and named it the Aladdin. In ensuing years, the resort faced a host of financial and legal problems. Mob figures from St. Louis, Detroit and Tokyo were found to have had their fingers in the genie's till at various times. Jan. 1, 1966 - Milton Prell and his associates buy the Tally Ho Hotel for a reported $16 million. The Tally Ho, which opened in 1963, never had gambling. April 1, 1966 - A remodeled Tally Ho - now called The Aladdin - opens. Prell conducted $3 million worth of remodeling before opening The Aladdin. The resort features 400 rooms, a par 54 golf course, five restaurants, four swimming pools and the 500-seat Baghdad Theatre. Comedian Jackie Mason headlines at the Strip's first new resort in nine years. Other opening acts: "Jet Set Revue" put together by Dorothy Dorbeno and a musical-comedy review that showcased the Three Cheers and the Petite Rockette Dancers. THE ALADDIN was once the Tally Ho. Take a look at the hotel's beginning in this QuickTime movie. Download size: 1.1 Mb. Duration: 21 seconds. Resort building continued to accelerate in Las Vegas in the 1950s. Wilbur Clark, once a hotel bellman in San Diego, CA, opened the Desert Inn in 1950. Two years later, Milton Prell opened the Sahara Hotel on the site of the old Club Bingo. Despite numerous ownership changes, the Sahara and Desert Inn continue to survive. The Sands Hotel, a showroom and playground for entertainment greats, opened in 1952. The Sands closed in 1996 to make way for a new megaresort and on Tuesday, Nov. 26, 1996, at 2 :00 a.m., the Sands Hotel tower disappeared in a rumbling cloud of dust and grit when owner Sheldon Adelson directed that the structure be imploded. In 1955, the Riviera Hotel became the first Strip high-rise with nine stories. Previously, Wilbur Clark's Desert Inn offered guests the highest unobstructed panoramic view of the Las Vegas Valley from the resort's third-floor Skyroom, a cocktail and dancing haunt of visitors, residents and celebrities. In December 1997, the Desert Inn finished a $200 million construction and remodeling project that transformed the opulent hotel into a five-star resort property. Other resorts opened during the 1950s building boom included the Royal Nevada, Dunes, Hacienda, Tropicana and Stardust hotels on the Strip and the Fremont Hotel-Casino downtown. The Royal Nevada later became part of the adjoining Stardust Hotel property. The Moulin Rouge Hotel-Casino opened in another area of the city in 1955 at a time when blacks, as well as black Strip entertainers, were not welcomed guests at Strip casinos. The Moulin Rouge, frequented by all races, was built to accommodate the growing number of black travelers and entertainers. Joe Louis, the late heavyweight champion of the world, was a Moulin Rouge owner-host and, at the time of his death, was a loved casino host at Caesars Palace Hotel on the Strip. The Moulin Rouge experienced a stormy history, closing and re-opening many times over the years. The property was declared a national historic site in 1992. City and county community leaders also realized in the 1950s the need for a Las Vegas convention facility. Their goal was to fill hotel rooms with conventioneers during slack tourist months. A site was chosen one block east of the Las Vegas Strip and a 6,300-seat, silver-domed rotunda with an adjoining 90,000-square-foot exhibit hall opened in April 1959 on the site of the current Las Vegas Convention Center. The World Congress of Flight was the center=s first convention. The silver dome was demolished in 1990 to make room for convention center expansions to a 1.9-million-square-foot facility including 12 exhibit halls, 107 meeting rooms and parking for more than 5,000 cars. It is currently one of the largest single-level facilities in the world. The latest expansion opened in late 1998. A walkway was built to cross over Paradise Road in front of the Convention Center. The walkway connected to a parking area and a new visitor center which was constructed on the site where the Landmark Hotel once stood. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, supported mainly by room tax revenues, today is a major player in attracting more than 30 million visitors annually to Las Vegas, including more than 3 million convention delegates. ENTERTAINMENT IS LAS VEGAS Entertainment, along with gambling, built Las Vegas' reputation as a play land getaway for the world. When the El Rancho Vegas was the only resort on the Las Vegas Strip in 1941, singers, comedians, strippers, instrumentalists, dancers and a wide variety of performers entertained hotel guests in the resort's small, intimate showroom. The hotel-casinos that followed copied the successful star format for a number of years. The Stardust was the first hotel to break fro
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