{"id":6744,"date":"2013-12-27T18:31:45","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T18:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2013\/12\/27\/flamingo-hotel-celebrates-67th-birthday-in-las-vegas\/"},"modified":"2013-12-27T18:31:45","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T18:31:45","slug":"flamingo-hotel-celebrates-67th-birthday-in-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2013\/12\/27\/flamingo-hotel-celebrates-67th-birthday-in-las-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"Flamingo Hotel celebrates 67th birthday in Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i42.tinypic.com\/14n2yax.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 185px\">Flamingo hotel 2012<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i43.tinypic.com\/2dhte00.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 185px\">Flamingo when it opened in 1946<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t<span style=\"font-size: 16px\"><strong>Dec. 26, 1946: Bugsy Siegel opens Flamingo, now oldest casino on Las Vegas Strip<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\tThe Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas \u2013 an icon for tourists traveling to the Strip \u2013 opened on Dec. 26, 1946, despite the fact that it wasn\u2019t yet complete.<\/p>\n<p>\tMobster Bugsy Siegel and his partners opened the hotel with just 105 rooms, hoping the grand event would attract business that would recoup cost overruns and help finance the rest of construction. The Flamingo was to be a new kind of luxury for Vegas, a full resort that featured a nine-hole golf course; tennis, squash and handball courts; a trapshooting range and extensive landscaping. Its high-end clientele would be served by staff wearing tuxedos.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe opening was generally considered a disaster, however, after a storm grounded VIPs from Hollywood in California and gamblers who didn\u2019t have rooms at the unfinished hotel took their winnings and left. Locals tended to prefer the cheaper casinos in downtown Las Vegas to those on the Strip.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe Flamingo quickly shut down, reopening on March 1 the next year. While it became more successful, the mobsters who had poured money into Siegel\u2019s project were not happy about its budget problems and suspected that Siegel was skimming money. Siegel was killed in the Beverly Hills home of his girlfriend in June. The mobsters quickly took control of the hotel, renaming it The Fabulous Flamingo, and it turned a $4 million profit in its first full year in 1948.<\/p>\n<p>\tToday, the hotel \u2014 now known as the Flamingo Las Vegas \u2014 is owned by Caesars Entertainment Corporation (formerly Harrah\u2019s). It is the oldest hotel on the Strip still in operation. It has 3,626 hotel rooms, a Margaritaville mini-casino and a garden courtyard habitat that houses flamingos.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<p>No replies were posted for this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flamingo hotel 2012 Flamingo when it opened in 1946 Dec. 26, 1946: Bugsy Siegel opens Flamingo, now oldest casino on Las Vegas Strip The Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas \u2013 an icon for tourists traveling to the Strip \u2013 opened&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-casino-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}