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VEGAS MYTHS BUSTED: Las Vegas Boasts 15K Miles of Neon
Travel, real estate, and legal websites frequently attempt to generate more traffic than they deserve by publishing lists of “surprising facts” about the cities where they do business. One of them repeated...
VEGAS MYTHS BUSTED: Elvis Performed 837 Sold-Out Vegas Shows
Sorry, Barry Manilow. You didn't beat Elvis Presley's record for consecutive sell-outs at the Westgate in Las Vegas this weekend. According to a plaque on display at that very casino resort, you...
VEGAS MYTHS BUSTED: Howard Hughes Ran the Mob Out of Town
In 1967, billionaire Howard Hughes purchased the Desert Inn from Cleveland syndicate member Moe Dalitz just to avoid being evicted from his penthouse suite. Hughes found that he liked owning Las Vegas...
VEGAS MYTHS BUSTED: You Know Which Floor Your Hotel Room is Really On
If your room at The Wynn is on the 60th floor, you do not have a 60th-floor view. You have a 48th-floor one. That’s because there are no 40th-49th floors at that...
VEGAS MYTHS BUSTED: The ‘World’s Tallest Thermometer’
The "world’s tallest thermometer" in Baker, Calif., is a liar. It’s not that there’s a taller thermometer somewhere in the world robbed of its rightful title. It’s that the spectacle that towers...
VEGAS MYTHS BUSTED: Dry Heat is Safer Than Humid Heat
But it’s a dry 115 degrees …. Because dry, hot air evaporates sweat, which is how the human body cools itself, most summertime visitors to Las Vegas come assuming that dry heat...
VEGAS MYTHS BUSTED: Elvis Presley Didn’t Die on Aug. 16, 1977
Elvis Presley died 46 years ago last week ... or did he? We admit it. We put off busting this myth because it’s so out of date and ridiculously unbelievable, it seems...
VEGAS MYTHS BUSTED: Casinos Employ Coolers to Stop Hot Streaks
In the Oscar-nominated 2003 movie "The Cooler," William H. Macy portrays a downtown Las Vegas casino employee whose job is to reverse winning streaks. Bernie Lootz -- get it, lose? -- has...
VEGAS MYTHS BUSTED: Frank Sinatra Desegregated the Strip
Frank Sinatra was certainly a driving force in the progress toward equality in Las Vegas. But contrary to a popular myth, the singer didn't end the shameful legacy of segregation on the...
VEGAS MYTHS BUSTED: Floyd Mayweather Witnessed Tupac Shakur’s Murder
A viral Twitter video posted on July 26, 2023, purports to show boxing legend Floyd Mayweather claiming to be the most famous witness to rap legend Tupac Shakur’s 1996 murder yet to...
