Wednesday, January 02, 2013

Nevada's Golden Years of Gambling blog tour




Book Blurb:

Before "Bugsy" Siegel" opened the Flamingo casino and created the Las Vegas Strip, the Mob was hard at work stealing Downtown casinos like the Las Vegas Club and the El Cortez from their original owners. Reno casino owners resorted to arson and murder to keep their money flowing, and they had Lake Tahoe casinos in their pocket too!

Nevada's Golden Age of Gambling is a photo-rich history of the casinos from 1931 to 1981. All about the building of empires from Reno and Lake Tahoe to Las Vegas and a dozen other Nevada casino towns.

Stories detail how the casinos were built, who the major gaming pioneers were, and how they managed to build Nevada from a agriculture and mining based economy into the greatest gaming empire in the world.

Chapters include the history of casinos and their founders from Bill Harrah and "Pappy" Smith, to Moe Dalitz, "Bugsy" Siegel, and dozens of others.

My Thoughts:

I have always loved books about mobsters, etc, so when I was offered the chance to read this book I thought it might be really interesting. It was very interesting, I really don't know a lot about Casinos as they were back in the early days, so I really found this book to be very interesting. It is full of a lot of great pictures and historical information about Nevada and the gambling community.

When you look at all those elaborate casinos in Vegas today, then read this book and look at the pictures of what casinos looked like back in the 1930's it is amazing how things have changed, but at the same time a lot is still the same. 

Al Moe does a great job of taking you through the history of Nevada's gambling community and if your a history buff I think this book is something you will want to read.


Author Bio:

I'm a lucky guy. My family traveled through Nevada most summers and I got to see the towns and casinos changing like the color of the leaves in the trees. Casinos came and went. So did we. 

I started taking pictures of the casinos and researching their owners and name changes in the 1980's. I collected chips and dice, and since then I've had a great time working at properties like Harrah's and Harold's Club, and writing about everything I've learned.

I also write a Nevada Casino History blog and discuss Casino Gambling at About.com Please drop by and leave me a note - I'll respond.

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Tour Schedule:

December 

28th Phaedra @ Identity Discovery (guest post)
29th Susan @ My Cozie Corner
30th Sandie @ Booksie's Blog

January

1st Connie @ Character Connection (guest post) 
3rd Darryl @ Savage Lullabye
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1 comment:

Penny Shriver said...

Hello,
I'm a new subscriber. This book sounds very interesting. I'll have to take a look at it.

Thanks for info.
P. G. Shriver
http://pgshriver.blogspot.com/

6/1/13 1:08 PM

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