360 Vegas
Episodes
Saturday Nov 11, 2017
PCP - 360 Vintage Vegas: The Dunes Hotel & Casino
Saturday Nov 11, 2017
Saturday Nov 11, 2017
In 1955, the Dunes Hotel and Casino was the 10th property to open on the Las Vegas strip. This is her story.
Saturday Aug 20, 2016
E-208: Pokemon Gooooooooal
Saturday Aug 20, 2016
Saturday Aug 20, 2016
Riviera No More, New York Shames Vegas, Beauty and Excess, Vegas Fanboy Deals and Listener Feedback.
Tuesday May 26, 2015
E-169: Strippers in Transit
Tuesday May 26, 2015
Tuesday May 26, 2015
Addiction by Design; Machine Gambling in Las Vegas, Life is Beautiful 2015, Weird Al Residency, Pawn Plaza Exemption, Cirque's Baz, Booze & Bites, Vintage Vegas Preservation and lots of rambling.
Sunday Feb 16, 2014
PCP - 360 Vintage Vegas: Elvis Presley
Sunday Feb 16, 2014
Sunday Feb 16, 2014
Elvis Presley & Las Vegas are synonymous with one another. However the caricature most often perpetrated is a sad tribute to a man who did much more for the city than just shatter Vegas box office records before falling into the darkest period of his life
Sunday Jul 22, 2012
PCP - 360 Vintage Vegas: Wilbur Clark's Desert Inn
Sunday Jul 22, 2012
Sunday Jul 22, 2012
Unlike the Flamingo and Billy Wilkerson, the Desert Inn was a dream come to fruition for Wilbur Clark. Years of development, planning and construction made into a reality, even if everything didn’t go exactly to plan. As with many big dreamers, ambition can sometimes outlast finances, which was the case for Wilbur Clark and his Desert Inn.
Moe Dalitz was a man with a dream as well, legitimacy. Las Vegas offered the opportunity to apply his gambling business acumen legally and in public. When his friend Meyer Lansky informed him of the financial problems the Desert Inn had encountered preventing the project from being completed, he jumped at the opportunity to invest.
The deal between Wilbur and Moe gave majority ownership to Dalitz but kept Wilbur in place as a partner as well as the legitimate face of the property. It may be the first and only true partnership between organized crime owners and the legit front man. In most cases, the guy out front was little more than a bullied puppet with little to no input on operations. In the case of Wilbur and Moe, the Desert Inn partnership would go on to make them both very rich men.
Sunday May 20, 2012
PCP - 360 Vintage Vegas: How the Mob Came to Vegas
Sunday May 20, 2012
Sunday May 20, 2012
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The mafia’s time in Vegas has been romanticized for so long that fact and fiction are often hard to distinguish. While there is a tremendous amount of information about mafia’s time in Las Vegas, details are hard to find and almost impossible to verify.
As long as business has existed there has been organized crime in one form or another. It’s hard to argue that prohibition helped to developed and fine tune organized crime into what would become known as “The Mafia”. It also helped to romanticize the notion of a collection of charismatic business men who operated outside of the law to provide a service and a product that people wanted. It also developed another belief, that the police and government were the bad guys, always trying to spoil every ones good time.