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Las Vegas; Bugsy Siegel started it all
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Okay, maybe not everything. But surely some of the Las Vegas glitz and glamour can be attributed to the big shot dreams of the debonair gangster. Although Bugsy would hardly recognize the city he swaggered into back in the day. Dillinger was long dead; Capone was cooling his tax cheating heels out on Alcatraz. The little city of Las Vegas was wide open for business, gangster style
In his quest for sophistication and a quick buck, Siegel brought palm trees and the mob. The palm trees remain. But the mobsters were run out of town decades ago. To learn more about Vegas’s bloody era of sharkskin suits and hit men take Robert Allen’s Vegas Mob Tour, a two hour bus ride, of sites and stories about the mob’s dirty deeds in Vegas.
Bugsy built the original Flamingo in 1946. Since then, the hotel has been bulldozed and rebuilt from the ground up. It’s still as cool now as it was then. With the ghost of Bugsy supposedly still on the premises what could be cooler?. According to rumor, the ghostly Benjamin Bugsy Siegel has staked out the Flamingo rose garden for nightly hauntings. He prefers the monument dedicated to the part he played in the city’s history. Go ahead and see for yourself. Even those who stay elsewhere are free to enjoy the Flamingo’s lush rose garden, amid waterfalls, colorful flora and fauna; a great place for an after sunset stroll.Tourists wishing to see real Bugsy memorabilia can head over to the Nevada Historical Society in Lorenzi Park. Four bucks at the door and you can see the door that graced Bugsy’s private penthouse, the chandelier that shed light upon his handsome countenance, and a pair of nail clippers he may, or may not have used.
He may not have started it all, but Bugsy helped put Las Vegas in the spotlight.
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