Grandissimo : The First Emperor of Las Vegas
How Jay Sarno Won a Casino Empire, Lost It, and Inspired Modern Las Vegas
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Word Count
81,500 words, Guess
Page Count
326 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL32881721M
- ISBN-139780990001607
- ISBN-100990001601
- OCLC Control Number860913633
Description
Grandissimo is the story of how Jay Sarno won and lost his casino empire, inventing modern Las Vegas along the way. Jay Sarno built two path-breaking Las Vegas casinos, Caesars Palace (1966) and Circus Circus (1968), and planned but did not build a third, the Grandissimo, which would have started the mega-resort era a decade before Steve Wynn built The Mirage. Sarno invented the modern Las Vegas casino, but he was part of a dying breed--a back-pocket entrepreneur who'd parlayed a jones for action and a few Teamster loans into a life as a Vegas casino owner.
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