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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Comped: Classic Las Vegas Before the Corporations Took Over

Comped: Classic Las Vegas Before the Corporations Took Over

Carpenter, Don

Paperback

20th Century United States History

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ISBN13: 9798171311896
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 258
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.64 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Comped is the story of the Las Vegas that existed before the corporations took over - the mob-financed, Rat Pack-glamorous, blood-and-marble city that ran on comps instead of algorithms, on handshakes instead of loyalty cards, on men who remembered your wife's name and men who skimmed millions out of the count room in the same breath. From Bugsy Siegel's doomed vision at the Flamingo to the last dying gasps of the open city era, from Sinatra's Copa Room to a car bomb on a Las Vegas street, this is the story of how organized crime built the most improbable hospitality industry in American history - and how it all came apart the night a volcano erupted on the Strip and Wall Street money finally, decisively, won.

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