Grandissimo The first emperor of Las Vegas : how Jay Sarno won a casino empire, lost it, and inspired modern Las Vegas
Book - 2013
Grandissimo is the story of how Jay Sarno won and lost his casino empire, inventing modern Las Vegas along the way. Jay Sarno built two path-breaking Las Vegas casinos, Caesars Palace (1966) and Circus Circus (1968), and planned but did not build a third, the Grandissimo, which would have started the mega-resort era a decade before Steve Wynn built The Mirage. Sarno invented the modern Las Vegas casino, but he was part of a dying breed--a back-pocket entrepreneur who'd parlayed a jones for action and a few Teamster loans into a life as a Vegas casino owner.
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Las Vegas, Nevada :
Winchester Books
[2013].
©2013. - Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- xiv, 308 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-290) and index.
- ISBN
- 9780990001607
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