The “King” always stayed in the penthouse on the 30 th floor.
He turned what was supposed to be a four-week engagement into one that lasted seven years. 12, 1976, Elvis Presley sold out more than 600 shows at the Las Vegas International Hotel, which became the Hilton in 1970. The Las Vegas Hilton, the company’s signature property in Las Vegas, was even more iconic. These included the first of the great Strip casinos, the Flamingo, built by the late Bugsy Siegel.Īs Hilton puts it, the company’s arrival “helped to legitimize Las Vegas as a prime destination for leisure and business travel.” Ironically, when Hilton eventually ran the Flamingo, it issued $5 casino chips memorializing Siegel.
Until that point, the development of Las Vegas casino hotels had been in the hands of colorful ‘entrepreneurial’ types.
