This is a photovideo with vegaspics from the year 1992.
They all token around the year 1992.
The first half of the video are daytime pics and the other half is with pics from the night.
Music: ZZtop “Viva Las Vegas”
Duration : 0:4:8
Gran Scala Spain vs Las Vegas -
Gran Scala project, an amusement and casinos resort in Spain. Gran Scala Casinos is a hugely ambitious project, an amusement and casino resort destination planned for Aragon in north-eastern Spain, is raising some eyebrows and generating quite a buzz in the casino industry. British-based consortium International Leisure Development’s Christian Colus explains what the project means, to Casino International. With an estimated 25 million visitors a year to its 32 casino hotels, 70 hotels, 232 restaurants and hundreds of shops among its theme parks and attractions, Gran Scala will be second only to Las Vegas in terms of its scope within the casino industry. But is it viable to expect 25 million visitors? Critics have asked questions about supplying water to one of Spain’s driest areas, and Greenpeace says the whole area in Los Monegros should be a nature reserve. Complainants will need to move quickly though — breaking ground for the project is scheduled for September 2008; ILD is not dragging its heels and, according to ILD’s Christian Colus, there is plenty of interest in the development despite concerns of a global financial slowdown….. Casino International: 12 companies are involved with ILD as shareholders, many of which are very wealthy, and I know Aristocrat is part of this. How did they get involved? Christian Colus: Aristocrat was involved on the gaming side because there is a lot of work to be done with the state of Aragon about the new law that will be launched for the project. The current law of Aragon is not adapted to this kind of project. Not only about the taxes, which is one of the major issues, but the also that it was very difficult in Aragon to have an approval for a slot machine, the new models. Because you need to do in Spanish you need to respect a lot of things that are very different to international standards. So what’s happened, for example, a provider like IGT or Aristocrat will take a lot of time and expense for what, for sell one or two slots, because there is only one casino in Aragon. So it is not possible. So the work was to work on the document with the state to have exactly the same offering as that in Macau, or in Las Vegas, you know, and to work on the on the international standards — and of course to allow English. That was the major problem. Because if you allow English directly you can have the possibility to buy all the slots from all the biggest catalogues from IGT, Atronic, Aristocrat. CI: In terms of the development, the amount of casino hotels that you’re talking about (32) is a huge number for any country to take on; Spain doesn’t have a huge number of casinos anyway, does it? CC: It is important to forget Spain in the conversation as such. We are creating a new destination in the same way as Dubai, Orlando or Las Vegas exists. Spain is not the most important potential market. The problem in Spain is that the casinos don’t work. Why? Because the slots are very old. If you have the time to visit one casino in Spain — except in Barcelona and Madrid where they have done a lot of investment — they are very old slots because they cannot allow English, you know, as we mentioned earlier. CI: Why Aragon? CC: Why Aragon? Because first we have the situation, within a 300km radius we have almost 26 million people, with Aragon exactly in the middle. Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, Bilbao, Toulouse are all close by. And second, with Expo 2008 taking place in Zaragoza, they have done a lot of work to the infrastructure. One of them is the fast train, and we’ll have a fast train station inside of the project. So it will be at almost one hour from Madrid and Barcelona by train. There are three airports, one is completely new, the two there are quite handy, at less than 60km from the land. ………….. See the full article on http://granscalablog.com
Duration : 0:2:49
Paseo por el interior y los casinos de los hoteles Mandalay, Luxor, Excalibur, Nueva York y Tropicana, en Las Vegas
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this is the channel 13 Local News coverage of the 2009 New Years Eve firework celebration in Las Vegas Nevada.
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Stephen Alan Wynn (nació el 27 de enero, 1942 en New Haven, Connecticut) es un empresario estadounidense de bienes y raíces y casino quien es acreditado por haber ayudado al dramático resurgimiento y la expansión del Strip de Las Vegas en Las Vegas, Nevada en la década de los años 1990. Sus empresas renovaron o construyeron algunos de los resorts más conocidos en Las Vegas como el Golden Nugget, The Mirage, Treasure Island, Bellagio, y el hotel Wynn.
Wynn Las Vegas al presente
Mirage Resorts fue vendido a MGM Grand Inc. por $6.6 mil millones en junio de 2000 para formar al MGM Mirage. Con el dinero que Steve hizo en ese trato, y con su habilidad para incrementar y financiar ese dinero, Wynn construyó un nuevo resort, el más caro a la fecha, el Wynn Las Vegas, en la cual abrió en el antiguo terreno del hotel Desert Inn el 28 de abril, 2005. Wynn Las Vegas es propiedad y operado por Wynn Resorts Limited, de la cual Wynn es el presidente y director ejecutivo. Wynn se convirtió en un billonario en 2004, cuando su riqueza dobló los $1.3 mil millones.
Wynn exitosamente ofertó uno de las tres concesiones de juegos que habían abierto en Macau, una Región administrativa especial de China, en la cual tiene una larga historia en los juegos de azar y es el mercado de juegos mAs grande en el mundo traspasando a Las Vegas en 2006.[2] Esta propiedad, es mejor conocida como Wynn Macau, abrió el 5 de septiembre de 2006.
SITIO OFICIAL DE WYNN CASINO & HOTEL LAS VEGAS:
http://www.wynnlasvegas.com/
SITIO OFICIAL DEL CASINO “ENCORE”, A INAUGURARSE A PRINCIPIOS DEL 2009:
http://www.encorelasvegas.com/
Duration : 0:0:32
STEVE WYNN: THE CASINO LEGEND OF LAS VEGAS
Stephen Alan Wynn (born January 27, 1942 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American casino resort developer who is credited with spearheading the dramatic resurgence and expansion of the Las Vegas, Nevada, Strip in the 1990s. His companies refurbished or built some of the most currently widely recognized resorts in Las Vegas such as the Golden Nugget, The Mirage, Treasure Island, Bellagio, Wynn, and Encore. As of 2008, Wynn is the 277th richest man in the world with a wealth of $3.9 billion.
BIOGRAPHY
EARLY LIFE, FRONTIER, AND THE GOLDEN NUGGET
Wynn’s father Michael Weinberg ran a string of bingo parlors in eastern United States. In 1946, he had changed his name to “Wynn” presumably as a marketing strategy and a move to trump anti-Jewish bias.
Wynn was raised in Utica, New York, and graduated from The Manlius School, a private boys’ school east of Syracuse, New York, in 1959. He studied cultural anthropology and English literature at the University of Pennsylvania where he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity. In 1963, his father died of complications from open heart surgery in Minneapolis shortly before Wynn graduated from Penn with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature. He married Elaine Farrell Pascal the same year.
Wynn took over running the family’s bingo operation in Maryland. He did well enough at it to accumulate the money to buy a small stake in the Frontier Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, where he and Elaine moved in 1967. Between 1968 and 1972 Wynn also owned a wine and liquor importing company.
Wynn managed to parlay his profits from a land deal in 1971 (the deal involved Howard Hughes and Caesars Palace) into a controlling interest in the landmark downtown casino, the Golden Nugget Las Vegas (he also owned The Golden Nugget in Atlantic City, New Jersey). Wynn renovated, revamped and expanded the Golden Nugget from a gambling hall to a resort hotel and casino with enormous success, in the process attracting a new upscale clientele to downtown Las Vegas.
The Mirage, Treasure Island and Bellagio
Wynn had previously acquired interests in various existing casinos. His first major Strip casino, The Mirage, which opened in 1989, set a new standard for size and lavishness, with construction costs to match. The Mirage featured an indoor forest and an outdoor “volcano,” and with high-quality room appointments and an emphasis on service, the Mirage was another great success. The Mirage was the first project in which he was involved in the design and construction of a casino. The $630 million cost to build The Mirage was financed largely with junk bonds issued by Michael Milken. The Mirage was considered a risky venture by the standards then prevailing in Las Vegas because of its high cost and emphasis on luxury. However, it proved to be enormously successful and made Wynn a major part of Las Vegas history.
Wynn’s next project was Treasure Island Hotel and Casino. It opened in 1993 at a cost of $450 million. With its live pirate show and location next to the Mirage, Treasure Island was another success for Wynn.
Wynn expanded further on his concept of the luxury casino with Bellagio, a $1.6 billion resort, including an artificial lake, indoor conservatory, a museum-quality art gallery and branches of high-end boutiques and restaurants from Paris, San Francisco and New York City. The architect was the famous American Jon Jerde of The Jerde Partnerships. The Bellagio is credited with starting a new spree of luxurious developments in Las Vegas. Among these developments include The Venetian, Mandalay Bay, and Paris Las Vegas.
WYNN LAS VEGAS TO PRESENT
Mirage Resorts was sold to MGM Grand Inc. for $6.6 billion ($21 a share) in June 2000 to form MGM Mirage. With the money he made on that deal, and with his ability to secure ever-greater financing, Wynn built a new resort, his most expensive yet, the Wynn Las Vegas, which opened on the former site of the Desert Inn on April 28, 2005. Wynn Las Vegas is owned and operated by Wynn Resorts Limited, of which Wynn is chairman and chief executive officer. Wynn became a billionaire in 2004, when his net worth doubled to $1.3 billion.
Wynn successfully bid for one of three gaming concessions that were opened for tender in Macau, a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China, which has a long history of gaming and is the largest gaming market in the world, having surpassed Las Vegas in 2006. This property, known as Wynn Macau, opened on 5 September 2006.
In the summer of 2008, hiring began for Encore, the newest in Steve Wynn’s collection of resorts (the tower of Encore is modeled after the Wynn Las Vegas tower, and in fact, they share the same “property” though they are separate hotels). Wynn is said to be hiring 3500 employees for this expansion. Encore will be opening on December 22, 2008.
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El 23 de octubre del 2001 se hizo la implosión del célebre Hotel y Casino “Desert Inn” en Las Vegas, Nevada (U.S.A.).
Fue en éste lugar donde se filmó la versión original de “Ocean’s Eleven” en 1960, que luego la reencarnarían George Clooney y Brad Pitt.
El famoso local de éste casino, el “Crystal Showroom”, fue el escenario de actuaciones de los músicos Liberace, Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin, Dean Martin, Tony Bennett, Paul Anka, Neil Sedaka, Dionne Warwick, Wayne Newton, Barry Manilow, Cher y Tina Turner, entre otras grandes luminarias de la música mundial.
El riesgo de una ciudad como Las Vegas que constantemente trata de “reinventarse” es que contiene muy pocos edificios erigidos a lo largo de su historia centenaria que no han sufrido una implosión (Aladdin, Sands, Dunes, Landmark, Hacienda, El Rancho y Desert Inn), han sido inundados (The Lost City, una ciudad antigua de los indios Pueblo que fue cubierta por las aguas del Lago Mead) o han sido destruidos por el fuego (como el Moulin Rouge, el primer casino racialmente integrado en Las Vegas).
A pesar del romance que las Vegas tiene con el desarrollo continuo de nuevos edificios, algunos de los monumentos históricos en la ciudad han podido huir de las garras de la destrucción.
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The Stratosphere rides, Las Vegas Hotels, Downtown Las Vegas and the N.A.B. convention in 2008
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Behind the scenes footage of the making of the Encore Las Vegas Commercial. Directed by Brett Ratner and filmed 48-stories above Las Vegas Blvd., Steve Wynn introduces his new resort while sitting on top of the building.
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Our ride on the Deuce double deck bus upstairs