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Frank Marino (born November 20, 1963) is an American female impersonator dubbed "Ms. Las Vegas" [citation needed] for his longtime starring role as Joan Rivers in the Las Vegas drag revue Frank Marino's Divas Las Vegas, which played at The Linq (formerly known as Imperial Palace and The Quad) on the Las Vegas Strip until June 2018. [1]
The Sands Hotel and Casino was a historic American hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, United States, that operated from 1952 to 1996. Designed by architect Wayne McAllister, with a prominent 56-foot (17 m) high sign, the Sands was the seventh resort to open on the Strip.
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]
Las Vegas: Historic non-segregated hotel which was burned after listing. 41: Old Spanish Trail – Mormon Road Historic District: Old Spanish Trail – Mormon Road Historic District: August 22, 2001 : From the California border to Arizona across southern Nevada, through Las Vegas; also specifically near the junction of Interstate 15 and State ...
The Riviera (colloquially, "the Riv") [1] [2] was a hotel and casino on the northern Las Vegas Strip in Winchester, Nevada. [3] It opened on April 20, 1955, and included a nine-story hotel featuring 291 rooms. The Riviera was the first skyscraper in the Las Vegas Valley, and was the area's tallest building until 1956. Various hotel additions ...
The Moulin Rouge Hotel was a hotel and casino in West Las Vegas, Nevada, that was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1992. Although its peak operation lasted only six months in the second half of 1955, it was the first desegregated hotel casino and was popular with many of the Black entertainers of the time, who would entertain at the other hotels and casinos and stay ...
The Boardwalk Hotel and Casino [a] was a Coney Island-style hotel on the Las Vegas Strip. The property began in 1966, as a Holiday Inn. Norbert Jansen added a gift shop to the hotel in 1972, and later opened the Slot Joynt casino. In 1985, Jansen renamed the Holiday Inn as the Viscount Hotel, part of a U.S. chain.
The Plaza Hotel & Casino is a hotel and casino located in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada.It currently has 995 rooms and suites, an 80,000-square-foot (7,400 m 2) casino and more than 25,000 square feet (2,300 m 2) of event space.