It was cleaner, safer and cheaper when the Mob ran it.
I used to go with my girlfriend and her parents in the early and mid 70s. In fact I would drive. Her dad was a doctor who was the worse driver so they made me drive. I was a teenager.
I remember how clean it was and I would whisper to my girlfriend......those guys in the pit are mob guys. And we were at the Stardust all the time. Stayed at the Motel next to it. The sports book had just been set up by Frank Lefty Rosenthal and it was the biggest most advanced.
I did’t know about Lefty and Spilotro till years later of course. But being in that casino at that time.....many times, I had to have rubbed shoulders with those guys a few times.
Give it back to the mob.....they knew how to run the city.
It’s run by the BIG mob now: Bankers, Saudis, and the Chinese.
The Italians cannot compete with these guys.
Yep, all true. The casinos didn’t put up with bums/idiots. You behaved or you got roughly escorted out.
The “Stardust Line” with Lee Pete!
The mob didn't have sleazy, smelly bums handing out p0rn0gr@phic "business cards" on the strip ...
The mob had standards. They wouldn't crap in their own nest. Even the hits on their rivals would take place in California far away from the glitzy lights of Vegas.
The mob also paid the police, school teachers and hospital staff well. They wanted the best for their families.
They even liked modest spending tourists because, even if they didn't bring in much money, there was a lot of them bringing in a little that added up to a lot and made skimming all that much easier. There is a different kind of mob running the city now called Democrat politicians!