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The world famous Flamingo Las Vegas was opened in 1946 and despite popular mythology it was not the first hotel on The Strip (the El Rancho and the Frontier were already in business just up the street). It was already under construction when mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel horned his way in on the operation and used up a lot of mafia money to get the place constructed. Siegel was gunned down shortly after the hotel opened but he wouldn't recognize it today, now a 3,000-plus room resort located at the heart of the Las Vegas Strip. The only original feature of the hotel still remaining is one of the pools and a rose garden that is reported to be the sighting of Bugsy's ghost.
70s Postcard - Exterior
50s Postcard - Pool
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