{"id":250374,"date":"2022-12-29T15:10:32","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T21:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=250374"},"modified":"2024-08-01T10:53:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T15:53:40","slug":"7-places-where-you-can-still-experience-classic-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/7-places-where-you-can-still-experience-classic-las-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Places Where You Can Still Experience Classic Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"
The history of Las Vegas has an unusual adversary: The people who own its landmarks.<\/p>\n
“New and improved!” has pretty much been the city\u2019s only urban plan since mobster Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel opened the extravagant Flamingo Hotel in 1946. Virtually nothing built between then and the Rat Pack \u201960s \u2014 the Desert Inn, the Sands, the Dunes, the Stardust \u2014 still stands. Every time Las Vegas explodes, it seems, it implodes first.<\/p>\n
Even the Flamingo destroyed the last vestige of its storied past. The motel rooms by the pool \u2014 including Bugsy\u2019s Oregon Suite, with its secret getaway staircase \u2014 were replaced by the Hilton Corp. with two towers in the mid-\u201990s.<\/p>\n
Below are seven rare exceptions to this rule \u2014 places where classic Vegas still reigns out of reach of a wrecking ball.<\/p>\n