The Thunderbird

Opened 1948  ·  Card no. 9560

The property that made Nevada find out it could not establish who owned its own casinos. The state moved to pull the license in 1955 over a hidden interest, lost in court, and built the Gaming Control Board out of the argument that followed.

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