60s Arabian Room Menu
The Arabian Room at the Dunes opened with the hotel in 1955. It was a combination restaurant and showroom, featuring some of the biggest names in entertainment including George Burns, Carol Channing, and many other luminaries of the time.
This menu, probably from the early 1960’s, is a wonderful time capsule. The exterior is simple with just the name of the room and the hotel. Inside, however is a detail of the era including a wine list on the inside cover and a full dinner menu on the opposite page.
Interested in a bottle of 1952 vintage Dom Perignon? It would only have cost you $20.00. To give you an idea, a new bottle of that champagne would cost you at least 10 times that much today and a 1952 vintage would probably sell for thousands if it existed.
At the top of the menu side was a $4.00 child’s plate special, ironically wedged between two dinner drink specials – a Manhattan or a dry martini for only 90 cents.
Dinner came with a choice of appetizers including soups and salads with entrees of salmon, veal, prime rib, sirloin, lamb, filet mignon and more ranging from $5.50 to $8.00. Deserts of French pastries, cheesecake, pie, ice cream, cake, or sherbet were extra – 40-50 cents.
In 1963, the main attraction at the Arabian Room was Casino de Paris, a showgirl extravaganza designed to compete with the very successful Folies Bergere down the street at The Tropicana. Shortly thereafter, in the mid-1960’s, the name of the room was changed to the Casino de Paris Showroom and later to simply the Casino Showroom. That name remained until the hotel closed in 1992.
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