The Royal Nevada

Opened 1955  ·  Card no. 9579

The shortest career of any full resort on the Strip. Nothing was wrong with it: it opened within days of the Riviera, a month before the Dunes, into a town that had just added more rooms than it had customers. The Stardust swallowed the building whole.

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