Casino Gaming History and News

Construction of the New York New York Hotel & Casino began in March of 1995, construction of the hotel was completed two years later and the casino opened on January 3, 1997 at a cost of $460 m...

Few properties in Las Vegas have gone through as many changes of ownership and names as the current Westgate Hotel and Casino.   The hotel was originally designed by architect Martin Stern Jr.  Whe...

The Brown Derby Casino first opened, in the predominately African-American North West Side of Las Vegas, in 1944. Although it shared a name with the famous Brown Derby restaurants in Los Angeles an...

On March 2, 1979, Michael Gaughan, son of legendary casino owner Jackie Gaughan, opened the Barbary Coast Hotel & Casino on the famous "Four Corners" of Las Vegas Boulevard (Las Vegas Blvd and ...

Tonight we will say "goodbye" to 2016 and welcome the New Year with fireworks over the Las Vegas Strip and champagne or other libations in hand.  Before we leave 2016 to the history books indulge u...

The Bellagio Hotel & Casino - or as this writer often calls it "Terry Benedict's place," Terry Benedict is the fictional owner of the Bellagio in the 2001 remake of the movie Ocean's Eleven - w...

The "Great Recession" of 2007 - 2009 had a major impact on Las Vegas as a whole and downtown Las Vegas in particular. The Lady Luck Hotel and Casino which had closed for remodeling just the year be...

The El Morocco started out as a bar with slot machines on the West side of Las Vegas; when it opened in 1945 it was one of the few places where African-Americans could go to gamble in Las Vegas. Th...

Sometimes what happens in Vegas stays even into the afterlife. The end of October brings thoughts of Halloween and tales of ghosts and haunted houses and if you believe the superstitions some of th...