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HOTEL FLAMINGO LAS VEGAS NEVADA NV 1947 UNUSED 1947 GENUINE CURTEICH CURT TEICH LINEN POSTCARD POST CARD Please Note: any pixilation or straight white linesis an anomaly of the scanner and not on the postcard. NOTE THIS POSTCARD IS FEATURED IN THE BOOK: LINEN POSTCARDS: IMAGES OF THE AMERICAN DREAM BY MARK WERTHER AND LORENZO MOTT 19 Description SIZE: 5.5" X 3.5"UNUSED RARE 1947 GENUINE CURTEICH CURT TEICH LINEN POSTCARD POST CARDDESERT SOUVENIR SUPPLY, BOULDER CITY, NEVADA Flamingo Las Vegas The Flamingo Las Vegas is a hotel casino located on the famed Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada, and is owned and operated by Harrah's Entertainment. The property offers a 77,000 ft² (7,200 m²) casino along with 3,626 hotel rooms. The hotel is sometimes referred to as the pink hotel due to the structure's neon pink color. The 15 ac (61,000 m²) site is landscaped in a Caribbean theme, with the central area housing an exhibit of flamingos as part of a wildlife habitat. It was the home of penguins, but they have since been moved to a Dallas zoo. The Flamingo has a Las Vegas Monorail station at the rear of the property. History The original owner of the 40 acres the Flamingo sits on was on of Las Vegas' first settlers, Charles "Pops" Squires. Mr. Squires paid $8.75 an acre for the land. In 1944, Margaret Folsom bought the tract for $7,500 from Squires, and she then later sold it to Billy Wilkerson. Billy Wilkerson was the owner of the Hollywood Reporter as well as some very popular nightclubs in the Sunset Strip - Cafe Trocadero, Ciro's and La Rue's. In 1945, Wilkerson purchased 33 acres on the west side of U.S. Route 91, about one mile south of the Last Frontier in preparation for his vision. Wilkerson then hired George Vernon Russell to design a hotel that was more in the European style and something other than the "sawdust joints" on Fremont Street. His hotel would have luxurious rooms, a spa, health club, showroom, golf course, nightclub and an upscale restaurant. Due to the high cost of materials during the war, Mr. Wilkerson almost immediately began to run into financial problems and quickly found himself $400,000 short, it was then that he attempted to find new financing. In late 1945 Benjamin Siegel and his "partners" came to Las Vegas and purchased The El Cortez on Fremont Street for $600,000 and later sold it for a $166,000 profit. It was at this time that Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel and his organized crime associates found out that Mr. Wilkerson had ran out of money on his project and used the profits from The El Cortez sale to "encourage" Mr. Wilkerson to take on partners. Immediately Mr. Siegel and his partners, including mob member Frank Costello, invested $1 million into the property. They allowed Wilkerson to retain one-third ownership and operational control. Mr. Siegel then took over the final phases of construction and convinced some of his underworld associates to invest in his new project. Unfortunately Mr. Siegel had no experience designing or constructing a building and as a result costs continued to mount from his constant changes and gouging from construction companies and suppliers, including workers who would deliver materials by day, steal them at night and re-sell them the next day. With costs mounting and construction moving slowly Mr. Siegel was losing patience and it was during one of his many outbursts that upon seeing his construction foreman looking quite nervous, Benjamin Siegel said "Don't worry, we only kill each other". Mr. Siegel finally opened the hotel at a total cost of $6 million on December 26, 1946 and was billed as the world's most luxurious hotel[citation needed]. The 105 room property was built seven miles from Downtown Las Vegas. Originally known as The Pink Flamingo Hotel & Casino, a large sign was built in front of the construction site announcing that the "Flamingo" was a William R. Wilkerson project, Del Webb Construction was the prime contractor, and ... read more

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