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El Cortez: The Mob Arrives

Chapter 3 of our El Cortez Spotlight series By the mid-1940s, El Cortez had become a tidy little cash machine on Fremont Street, attracting both curious travelers and the kind of men who didn’t like to explain where their money came from. The war had ended, soldiers were returning home, and Las Vegas was poised for a kind of rebirth -one that would shimmer under … Continue reading El Cortez: The Mob Arrives

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Slots A Fun Through The Years

UPDATE 2025: Slots A Fun has brought table games back, 97%+ Token Slots, and we recently had the best time putting down $2 hotdogs with $2 Modelos. This piece will be an evolving work-in-progress, since it’s so difficult to find much information on record about the legendary oasis that is Slots A Fun, from all the over-the-top Vegas glamour. It’s still there, but it’s been … Continue reading Slots A Fun Through The Years

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