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Mike Hendricks

Mike at Night

Mike Hendricks recently retires as social science, criminal justice instructor at McCook Community College.

Las Vegas and the Mob

Friday, February 21, 2014

It's a common belief that Las Vegas was a far better city to visit when the mob was in control and there's significant evidence available to support that theory. Entertainment in the city was influenced heavily by the mob when world-class entertainers like Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Diana Ross, Liberace, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, Ike and Tina Turner and Elvis Presley were regulars at Strip hotels. It was the place of $1.98 buffets, $7 prime rib dinners and hotel rooms on the cheap. Players were treated like royalty, given room and food comps, pulled out of line for better tables and tipping the host at star-studded shows in the grand rooms of every strip hotel guaranteed you a front row seat.

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