Nothing like Vegas in it's heyday, $1.99 steak dinners, the best shows at reasonable prices, 25c gaming tables, bumping into Frank Sinatra, Dean and the gang. Ah, those were the days.
The man speaking at the beginning and end is Drew Pearson, famous Washington newspaper columnist [politics was his beat, in his nationally syndicated "Washington Merry-Go-Round" column], who conducted a half-hour syndicated series in the late '50s and early '60s called "NEW HORIZONS" (usually seen on weekends), in which he profiled and interviewed famous businessmen...including Wilbur Clark, in this 1960 segment.
lots of great history at the desert inn. ole wilbur was just a front man, the cleveland mob was the principle owner. this is where howard hughes reclused in the top two floors. when the mob asked him to leave he bought it.
Nothing like Vegas in it's heyday, $1.99 steak dinners, the best shows at reasonable prices, 25c gaming tables, bumping into Frank Sinatra, Dean and the gang. Ah, those were the days.
The man speaking at the beginning and end is Drew Pearson, famous Washington newspaper columnist [politics was his beat, in his nationally syndicated "Washington Merry-Go-Round" column], who conducted a half-hour syndicated series in the late '50s and early '60s called "NEW HORIZONS" (usually seen on weekends), in which he profiled and interviewed famous businessmen...including Wilbur Clark, in this 1960 segment.
lots of great history at the desert inn. ole wilbur was just a front man, the cleveland mob was the principle owner. this is where howard hughes reclused in the top two floors. when the mob asked him to leave he bought it.
tomitstube not a frontman
About as tasty a slice of '50s hypocrisy as I've ever seen....w/ Drew Pearson who loved to stretch the truth when he so wannit.