While it opened without a casino ... the granddaughter of the hotel’s founder, Pietro Ottavio “P.O.” Silvagni, said the hotel helped put Las Vegas on the map, and eventually became a ...

The approximately 300 mile roadway cut through the Mojave Desert from Los Angeles, entering Las Vegas from the south. In the 1940s casino owners ... area with new hotels, the Strip continued ...

As one of the brightest spots on Earth as seen from space, it's a no-brainer that Las Vegas is best seen from ... it would be easy with over 150,000 hotel rooms in the city, but alas, it's not.