The Stardust

Opened 1958  ·  Card no. 9552

The largest hotel in the world when it opened, with a two-hundred-foot electric sky for a sign. Tony Cornero died at a craps table before it was finished. For twenty-five years it was also the most systematically skimmed casino in Nevada.

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