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The 910 ton printing presses at the Las Vegas Review-Journal were the largest in the world when installed in 2000. The current Review-Journal headquarters was built in 1971. A new $40 million printing press was installed in 2000 as part of a four-year, 152,000-square-foot expansion project.
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The Ellis Island Casino & Brewery is located near the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. It was opened by Frank Ellis in 1968, originally as a bar and restaurant called the Village Pub. It was renamed Ellis Island in 1985, and a casino was added four years later.
[15] [217] [218] The El Rancho's implosion was recorded and featured in the 2004 National Geographic Channel documentary Exploding Las Vegas, along with several other Las Vegas casino implosions. [219] Turnberry initially planned to build a London-themed resort on the El Rancho land, [220] but the project was later canceled.
The Michelin Guide was published for Las Vegas in 2008 and 2009 [4] and covers restaurants located on the Las Vegas Strip, areas to the east and west of the Strip as well as Downtown Las Vegas. In 2010, the publication of the Michelin Guide was suspended for Las Vegas citing the economic climate. [5]
Marion Hicks and J.C. Grayson built El Cortez, downtown Las Vegas' first major resort, for $245,000. [4] El Cortez opened on November 7, 1941. [5] [6] The location at 6th Street and Fremont was originally considered too far from downtown, but it quickly became so profitable that Bugsy Siegel, Meyer Lansky, Gus Greenbaum and Moe Sedway bought the property in 1945 from J. Kell Houssels for $600,000.
In 2006, readers of the Las Vegas Review-Journal voted it "Hotel Most Deserving of Being Imploded". [201] Wynn, who now owned the Wynn Las Vegas resort across the street, called the aging Frontier "the single biggest toilet in Las Vegas". [202] The New Frontier was the last of the Hughes-era casinos to be demolished. [200]
The Showboat was built by William J. Moore of the Last Frontier and J. Kell Houssels of the Las Vegas Club [1] for $2 million. [2] The first resort within Las Vegas city limits, it had 100 rooms on two floors. [3] While Moore and Houssels ran the hotel, the casino was leased by a group of managers from the Desert Inn, including Moe Dalitz. [2]