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January 192009
Las Vegas Hotel Photos and Scenery Shots, Luxury Travel Expo Attendance and Walk Up and Down The Strip During The Holiday Season.
Duration : 0:8:15
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January 172009
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Duration : 0:1:7
Encore Las Vegas Grand Opening
January 72009
Rex from CasinoGuide.Com visits the Grand Opening of the Encore Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Duration : 0:5:10
Touring Steve Wynn’s Encore Resort Hotel on Opening Night in Las Vegas Pt. 1
December 282008
Steve Wynn opens Encore Resort Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip.
Duration : 0:2:39
Touring Steve Wynn’s Encore Resort Hotel on Opening Night in Las Vegas Pt. 4
December 242008
Encore Resort Hotel and Casino has Grand Opening on the Las Vegas Strip. 12-22-2008.
Duration : 0:3:11
Venetian Hotel & Casino - Las Vegas
December 162008
Located inside The Venetian Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada is an experience to remember. A simple walk through the Grand Canal Shoppes with the bright blue skies above gives the feeling of being in on the streets of Italy. The walk-way leads to the the Grand Canal where patrons are able to romantic gondola rides around the 1/4-mile long waterway. The gondolier serenades both the patrons and spectators alike.
Duration : 0:3:57
Steve Wynn: The Casino Legend of Las Vegas - BIOGRAPHY
December 142008
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.
Duration : 0:5:13
Mgm Grand Hotel And Casino Las Vegas
November 282008
One of the largest hotels in the world the MGM Grand lies overlooking the Las Vegas Strip and is a short walk from its sister Resort the New York - New York. The MGM Grand is one of the pioneering hotels on the famous Las Vegas Strip, originally famous for the Wizard of Oz theme it projected.The hotel now boasts of a more balanced mix of elegance, glamour and style whilst offering everything a guest can want on a holiday in Vegas. There are a wide range of things to do at the MGM Grand hotel, from visiting the African Lion Exhibit to shows and fine dining.Book this hotel with RoomsNet.com
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Duration : 0:1:10
DERRICK BARRY AS BRITNEY SPEARS WOMANIZER LIVE
November 242008
Derrick Barry, Britney Spears from ‘America’s Got Talent’ Season 3 and formerly with ‘An Evening at La Cage’ in Las Vegas, SINGING ‘Womanizer’ and Katy Perry’s ‘I Kissed A Girl’ LIVE with Holly Haynick’s NoBoundaries Dance Company. Choreography for ‘I Kissed A Girl’ by Holly Haynick. Dancers: Holly Haynick, Heidi Huckelberry, Wendy Lewis, Katrina Loncaric and Stacia Luigi. Shot LIVE at Studio 54 in the MGM Grand, Las Vegas for Golden Rainbow’s ‘Beaux Arts Ball’ 2008. ©2008 Prentice Pictures Production.
Filmed by Celebrity Artist Nick San Pedro
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Edited by Derrick Barry
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For more information and booking, Contact Derrick Barry at bretneyspears@yahoo.com
Duration : 0:7:44
Las Vegas Strip and Fremont St Experience, 2001.