In the nearly three years since we began this weekly Casino.org series, we’ve investigated many wild stories that we knew had to be myths. Most of the time, we were right. This is how we put to rest such widely held Vegas beliefs as the bodies buried inside Hoover Dam, the casino that Howard Hughes bought just to dim its sign so he could sleep, and, of course, the extra oxygen that casinos pump onto their floors to keep gamblers awake. (Well, we tried putting them to rest, anyway. Many people still believe them.) However, some such stories end up, quite insanely, being true. If you missed our first installment, check out “Vegas Near Myths Pt. 1,” Steve Wynn’s Gangland Roots An artist’s rendering of the Gangland Casino, here reimagined by AI, was the bluff that gave a young Steve Wynn his career. (Image: GROK2) In 1971, Steve Wynn was a 29-year-old slot supervisor at the Frontier. But big-time banker E. Parry Thomas took a liking to him. He saw something. Thomas… Read More
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