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Gaming History - Week of December 18, 2022
 
December 18th
2022 - Sunday

1993 - Las Vegas, NV.   MGM Grand Hotel & Theme Park opens. Notice the unfinished signs in the below photo.When the MGM Grand opened, the intention was to create the first true destination hotel in the Las Vegas area by including the MGM Grand Adventures Theme Park behind the casino. The plan was to make the Las Vegas Strip more family friendly by providing activities for those too young to linger inside the casino. The theme park performed poorly and did not reopen for the 2001 season. On December 5, 2002, MGM Resorts International (then named MGM Mirage) announced that the former theme park would be developed as a luxury condominium and hotel complex called The Signature at MGM Grand.
Link to: MGM Grand Theme Park
Crowd prepares to cross Las Vegas Blvd on Opening Day First Day ticket for Theme Park

1993 - Las Vegas Nevada.   The MGM Grand Las Vegas is a hotel casino located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. The MGM Grand is the second largest hotel in the world by number of rooms and the largest hotel resort complex in the United States, ahead of The Venetian. When it opened in 1993, the MGM Grand was the largest hotel in the world.
Link to: MGM Website   Link to: MGM Grand Wikipedia
MGM Grand Logo

1996 - Las Vegas, NV.   The Orleans is a hotel and casino located in Paradise, Nevada. It is owned and operated by Boyd Gaming. It includes the large multipurpose Orleans Arena that can be converted into an ice rink. It is a major home for poker in the Las Vegas Valley and was one of the biggest poker rooms in Las Vegas prior to the 21st-century poker boom. .
Link to: The Orleans Website   Link to: The Orleans Wikipedia

 
December 19th
2022 - Monday

1931 - Reno, NV.   The Jokereno Club opened at 130 North Center Street, with slots and keno (bingo). The Club's lavish decor included the brass cashier's grille from the Comstock Bank in Virginia City...through which millions of dollars in silver had passed during the famous days of the Comstock. On opening night, Reno mayor E.E. Roberts started the first bingo game. The club closed in 1932 and the site later became the location of the Dog House.

1995 - New Orleans, LA.   Star casino closes.

2002 - New York.   Bruce Landau passed away. Bruce was one of the initial organizers of CCGTCC, becoming Charter Member #002 and the founding Treasurer. Landau took on the responsibility of chairing the annual auctions when the Club began conducting them at each annual convention. His efforts, combined with those of the numerous volunteers who assisted in the auctions, resulted in the single largest money-making event for the Club each year. The annual auction has been named after Bruce in recognition of his organizational talents and as a memorial to his contributions to the hobby. He was also, after his own induction, Chairman of the Hall of Fame committee.
Link to: Bruce Landau CCGTCC Hall of Fame
Bruce Landau Rememberence of Bruce Landau

2007 - St. Louis, MO.   Lumiere Place casino opens.
Link to: Lumiere Place Website   Link to: Lumiere Place Wikipedia

 
December 20th
2022 - Tuesday

1933 - Reno, NV.   The bar in the Overland Hotel, at 242 North Center Street, was licensed for roulette. Over the years they also offered other games, including 21. .

2000 - Shreveport, LA.   Hollywood casino opens.

2001 - Blackhawk Colorado.   Ameristar Casino Resort Spa Black Hawk is a casino and hotel in Black Hawk, Colorado, owned by Gaming and Leisure Properties and operated by Penn National Gaming. Plans for the casino were revealed in 1997 by Windsor Woodmont, a company formed by several Dallas-based real estate developers. Hyatt Hotels was tapped to manage the casino. Excavation work on the site began in August 1998, but stalled later that year, reportedly because of financing problems related to the arrival of two other large casinos in Black Hawk (the Lodge and the Isle of Capri). Construction resumed in 2000. The casino opened on December 20, 2001, as the Black Hawk Casino by Hyatt At the opening, it was the largest casino in Colorado, with 57,000 square feet (5,300 m2) of gaming space, containing 1,332 slot machines, 16 blackjack tables, and 6 poker tables. The casino was designed as the first phase of a destination resort, with later additions planned to include a 350-suite hotel tower, a convention center, nightclubs, a spa, and a moun.
Link to: Ameristar Casino Websisite   Link to: Ameristar Casino Wikipedia

 
December 21st
2022 - Wednesday

1986 - Las Vegas, NV.   The Gold Coast Hotel and Casino is a hotel and casino located in Paradise, Nevada. This locals' casino is owned and operated by Boyd Gaming. The Gold Coast is located one mile (1.6 km) west of the Las Vegas Strip on West Flamingo Road. It is located across the street from the Palms Casino Resort and the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino.
Link to: Gold Coast Casino Website   Link to: Gold Coast Casino Wikipedia

2005 - Gary, IN.   Trump casino closes.

 
December 22nd
2022 - Thursday

2005 - Enterprise NV.   The South Point Hotel and Casino consist of a 24-story hotel tower, casino and 90,000 square feet convention center located on a 60 acres (24 ha) site along Las Vegas Boulevard in Enterprise, Nevada and adjacent to Silverado Ranch. The casino is owned and operated by Michael Gaughan and it serves as the primary sponsor of Gaughan's son Brendan Gaughan's race car.
Link to: Southpoint Website   Link to: Southpoint Wikipedia

2008 - Las Vegas Nevada .   Encore Las Vegas or Encore at Wynn Las Vegas (often just called Encore) is a luxury resort, casino and hotel located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. The resort is connected to its sister resort, Wynn Las Vegas; both are owned by Wynn Resorts Limited, headed by casino developer Steve Wynn.Encore has been awarded the AAA Five Diamond Award every year since opening. The Towers Suites at Encore and The Spa have both received the Forbes five-star award. Encore Las Vegas and its sister property, Wynn Las Vegas collectively hold more Forbes five-star awards than any other casino-resort in the world and it is considered to be one of the finest hotels in the world. Together with adjacent Wynn Las Vegas, the entire Wynn complex has a total of 4,750 rooms, making it the world's seventh-largest hotel.
Link to: Encore Website   Link to: Encore Wikipedia
The Theatre

2021 - Morgantown, PA.   Grand Opening.
Link to: Casino Website

 
December 23rd
2022 - Friday

1950 - Las Vegas, NV.   La Rue Restaurant and Casino opens on the Las Vegas Strip, closes 7 months later.

 
December 24th
2022 - Saturday

1905 - Houston Texas.   Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American business tycoon, entrepreneur, investor, aviator, aerospace engineer, inventor, filmmaker and philanthropist. During his lifetime, he was known as the wealthiest self-made man in the world, despite the fact that he had inherited 75% of the family business upon the death of his father. As a maverick film tycoon, Hughes gained prominence in Hollywood from the late 1920s, making big-budget and often controversial films like The Racket (1928), Hell's Angels (1930), Scarface (1932), and The Outlaw (1943).Hughes formed the Hughes Aircraft Company in 1932, hiring numerous engineers and designers. He spent the rest of the 1930s setting multiple world air speed records and building the Hughes H-1 Racer and H-4 Hercules (now better known as the "Spruce Goose"). He also acquired and expanded Trans World Airlines (TWA, subsequently acquired by and merged with American Airlines) and acquired Air West, renaming it Hughes Airwest. .
Link to: Howard Hughes Wikipedia

1951 - Las Vegas, NV.   The California Club operated from 1958 to 1973. Phil Long took over operation of the casino located at the corner of First and Fremont Street in Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada, 1958. The locals casino catered to local gamblers. It was owned and operated by Phil Long and partner George Milford and was a casino only without any hotel rooms. The California Club was sold to Steve Wynn in 1973. The California Club was combined into the Golden Nugget shortly after the purchase by Wynn.
California Club California Club interior


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