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Las Vegas Casino Soap

By MyVintageGeneration | Published: January 26, 2011
These three packages of soap are from Las Vegas casinos that are now all washed up. The Dunes was the tenth casino resort to open in Las Vegas. It opened May 1955 and closed January 1993. The Stardust Resort and Casino opened in July 1958. It was imploded on March 2007. The Sands Hotel was [...]
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Las Vegas Horseshoe Club matchbook

By MyVintageGeneration | Published: March 24, 2010
A bit of luck and a whole lot of promotion made the Binion family and Joe Brown very rich in Las Vegas. It started in 1951. That’s when Benny Binion opened a gambling hall and called it the Horseshoe. Several years later, with money rolling in and Binion in prision for tax evasion, casino ‘caretaker’ [...]
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