The Dunes

Opened 1955  ·  Card no. 9550

Opened with a thirty-foot neon sultan and failed almost at once. Saved in 1957 by putting the first topless revue on the Strip, which the county objected to loudly and profitably. Imploded live on television in front of two hundred thousand people.

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