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The California Hotel and Casino (also known as The Cal) is located in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada. The hotel casino is owned by Boyd Gaming. It opened on January 1, 1975, with 325 rooms in an 11-story hotel. A 14-story west tower was added in 1984, and was extended a decade later, bringing the room count to 781.
Steve Olliges is an American off-road racer from Las Vegas, Nevada. He has over 30 class wins and 7 championship titles to his credit in the SCORE International and Best in the Desert racing series. Olliges continues to reside in Las Vegas, Nevada, with his wife and their two children.
The city became highly engrossed in the franchise and pro football led all professional sports teams in the area; the baseball team and basketball team did not compete in their respective sports to nearly at the same level during this era. The Chargers won AFC West division titles in 1979–1981 and also made the playoffs in 1982.
The Las Vegas Valley is the home of three major professional teams: the National Hockey League (NHL)'s Vegas Golden Knights, an expansion team that began play in the 2017–18 NHL season at T-Mobile Arena in nearby Paradise, [104] the National Football League (NFL)'s Las Vegas Raiders, who relocated from Oakland, California, in 2020 and play at ...
Circa is the first new hotel-casino to open in the Las Vegas Valley since the Lucky Dragon in 2016. [48] The resort has 1,500 employees, helping the city amid high unemployment rates caused by the pandemic. [49] Circa is expected to help bring tourism back to the downtown area, away from the Las Vegas Strip.
[28] [29] Casino Royale remains one of the few non-unionized casinos in Las Vegas. [30] An Outback Steakhouse opened in 2003, becoming the first location inside a casino. [31] In December 2012, the property was rebranded as part of the Best Western hotel chain. [1] [32] The hotel includes 152 rooms. [32] [33]
The Fremont Hotel is located on 200 Fremont Street. It was designed by architect Wayne McAllister and opened on May 18, 1956, as the tallest building in the state of Nevada . At the time of its opening it had 155 rooms, cost $6 million to open and was owned by Ed Levinson and Lou Lurie. [ 1 ]
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.