That kid's name was Moe Greene, and the city he invented was Las Vegas. This was a great man, a man of vision and guts. And there isn't even a plaque, or a signpost or a statue of him in that town! Someone put a bullet through his eye. No one knows who gave the order. When I heard it, I wasn't angry; I knew Moe, I knew he was head-strong, talking loud, saying stupid things. So when he turned up dead, I let it go. And I said to myself, this is the business we've chosen; I didn't ask who gave the order, because it had nothing to do with business!
-- Hyman Roth (in one of the great movie monologues)
On my way to the Nam, in the Spring of 1970 my girlfriend and I laid on the sand of Laguna Beach CA and read each other chapters of the Godfather. I lived in Vegas back in 2002-05 and the book is right. I couldn’t find any place name for him.
Poor Moe. Lost in time.
“There was this kid I grew up with; he was younger than me. Sorta looked up to me, you know. We did our first work together, worked our way out of the street. Things were good, we made the most of it. During Prohibition, we ran molasses into Canada...made a fortune”
City Slickers 2: John Lovitz Godfather scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsXyG1R2MhQ