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El Cortez Sign Bugsy and Meyer Lansky
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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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Bugsy Malone Lighting a cigar in front of the El Cortez Sign in Las Vegas
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Bugsy’s Brief Inheritance

Part 2 of our El Cortez Spotlight series In the spring of 1945, the desert heat arrived early, pressing down on Fremont Street like a secret. The El Cortez had been open barely four years, and already it was changing hands. The war was nearly over, soldiers were trickling back west, and Las Vegas-still small enough that everyone knew the sheriff by name—-about to inherit … Continue reading Bugsy’s Brief Inheritance

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