The ENTIRE History Of Las Vegas

In the 1950s, Las Vegas hotels threw parties so guests could watch nuclear bomb tests from the bar. Fifty years earlier, the whole town had been sold off at a land auction in the desert. This is the entire history of Las Vegas: the railroad water stop, the dam that saved it, the mob money behind the Flamingo, the billionaire who would not leave his hotel room, the volcano that started the megaresorts, and the giant glowing ball on the Strip today. And the most famous street in Las Vegas is not even in Las Vegas.

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