Galveston Las Vegas Connection - Galveston and the Gulf Islands - HAIF . . . A pilgrimage from Galveston to Vegas of mobsters, card dealers, croupiers, hores and gamblers began In those days Vegas was not as heavily regulated as it is today and offered the lure of an easy buck to such dregs of society In 1960, a 21-year-old man named Frank Fertitta Jr would arrive in Las Vegas and find work at a Casino as a bellboy
Las Vegas As MLB Stadium - Houston Architecture BIG is also the architect for the Las Vegas A's A's owner is John Fischer who ran the team in to the ground and hoped that Oakland would help fund the new stadium They didn't so now he is moving them to Las Vegas but unitil the new stadium is built the A's MLB team will be playing at a Triple A stadium in Sacramento
Gulf Greyhound Park To Become Las Vegas Style Concert Venue The Gulf Greyhound renovation is scheduled to be completed in Q2 of 2025 The former dog kennels have been transformed into 18 VIP cabanas and work is progressing on the interior of the arena to add VIP suites and 12,000 seats
Jake Freedman Domain Privee Casino Residences At 11083 Old Main . . . Chips began at $5 00 Domain Privee flourished through World War II However, in the early 1950's steps were taken to enforce Texas' gambling laws Under this threat, Freedman closed Domain Privee and moved to a town in Nevada, where gambling is legal The grandiose resort hotel and casino that he ran in Las Vegas, The Sands, became world famous
Uncle Vans Pancake House On South Main St. I was browsing the newspaper The Southwestern Texan dated September 21, 1960 and noticed an advertisement for Uncle Van's Pancake House located at 9600 South Main Street "Right next door to the Las Vegas Motel 9600 block of South Main at Buffalo Speedway " "Home of the world renowned pancakes f
Proposed Hotel - 317 East Beach Dr. - Houston Architecture It should be noted that the Margaritaville that closed in Las Vegas was a restaurant and bar, not a resort It is laughable to think that there are any significant number of businesses whose primary purpose is other than making money building wealth And by the way, news reports about the Las Vegas closure support the "lost their lease" report
Major mall owner says it faces solvency trouble General Growth Properties shares plummeted Tuesday after the mall owner warned it faces solvency trouble and may be forced to file for bankruptcy if it can
1100 W. 23rd St. - The Heights - Houston Architecture Plume, the debut offering from Golden Ratio Hospitality, a new firm backed by longtime bar and real estate industry veterans, is coming to the same complex as Braun Enterprises’ Urban Office West Heights, a 20,000-square-foot coworking office that opened earlier this year in a converted print shop at 1100 W 23rd
Hardy Toll Road Extension - Page 3 - Traffic and Transportation - HAIF . . . Your link to the Daily Mail article is meaningless CES is the largest event in Las Vegas all year, so naturally any system — especially a novel one that appeals to the type of people who attend CES — will be bogged down Just like when Memorial Drive gets bogged down during the art festival It's one of those "No shit, Sherlock" moments