The Flamingo Hotel was the place to see and be seen in the Santa Rosa of the late 1950s. Patterned after the horizontal glass and stone design of Las Vegas' Flamingo, wings of rooms fanned out from a ...

USA TODAY Travel features exclusive, in-depth photo tours of the Las Vegas' world-famous hotels and casino resorts. We explore a different Vegas property each month so you can visit virtually before ...

Accepting the past can be difficult, especially when it involves murder and mobsters. When the Flamingo turned 50 in 1996, there was no celebration, no fanfare to mark the occasion, no public ...

As anyone with basic knowledge of Las Vegas history knows, celebrity mobster Bugsy Siegel was the owner of the Flamingo hotel and casino when it opened its doors on December 26, 1946. It was his ...

The Flamingo's 'Champagne Tower' was one of the first big pieces of neon on the Strip, seen in films like 'Viva Las Vegas.' It was installed in 1953 and removed in 1967. University of Nevada Libraries ...