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Si aad saloon opens in Las Vegas - ° _ iy ALINE MOSBY - rel yecas, Dev., Dec. 22-GE-The worlds ‘most super-cologsal , the $5,000,000 Flamingo Ctub, is open for business.-Tt ought ito be. They've deen having official openings every might for « week. ywood Mopeninge me ae en style, every ! anne” Gopal band at one. end of the ‘room gid a glass wall oov-* junior ‘size | @red with en fish at the other. [Ta Mahal. OF gambling, Aquor ‘We sampled Bugsy’a steak, along ould : with commuting customers George and Publicity there - si be | Jessel, George Raft and his pal, ad The backe: ae poet in “Killer Gray,” who lost §700 at the desert ar roulette (we felt worse losing $4); Big el, who police emia. | Charles Coburn, who waited three 6 We t Coast he head omen hours for his dinner, and Vivian der, Ine. "5 , vice | Blaine, who lost e purple plume . president Potahss 1. {from her pink hatin the crowds ers Company of Peoria, 1 of first nighters. Witkergon, publisher of « ‘srovie! . Wilkerson, a sad-eyed gent with tr a follywood Re-|*® square face and graying mus- ade Sura, the Rywogd Re: tache, said he figured movie peo- lawyer. ple would swarm by hundreds ta. Local townstolk were’ a Mttle{ his hostelry. worried about Bugsy’s ‘past con-|, “You know.” he sighed, survey- nections, But when ali the violin | ing acres of dancers, drinkers ang eases packed into the place onjS®mblers, “when we sterted opening rights turned out to hold | build this iis thing I thought It would real vi the solid. citizens | be, too small trooped in to take a aquint at the| . The Civilian Production Aamain- men, Flamingo. Bugny rib | eng woul bees i woe the casino, and here in Nevade it's rve i era ee pune “hom “rhe only other outside gambler|They said nix, but Wilkerson hho has moved to Nevads Is er oy ‘waved s building permit madi cAfee, who came up here from {oUt before the commercial con: : Loa Angeles, left his bodyguard ®truction ban under the CPA's t home, and prospered. Now he | nose. Work proceeded on the co- fas a million dolar gambling | !ossal pub. ‘ ball and is = regular contributor) The Clark County commiason. to the Community Chest. ere okehed the club's gambling 1, The Flamingo is built to make/¢ense despite the purple pai private contributions to the bar} Siegel, who danced in and out ot and roulette wheels easy. Hard-| Courts and then became the pal- ened movie characters who've been | #bout-Hollywood of many players. reared on sets like Shangri-La or Ro Baghdad were awed. I's modernistic-modernistic. The § bushes outside light up red and NTALNED blue and at the right end of the | ALL : TELED beige-and-brown club sits a green | i eeE{N IE 1E lake full of red flamingoes. BORE bs BY SCA ‘A little farther to the right fe! D ~ the Nevada desert, where the dushes don't light up, there are 8, he closest thi flainingo is a coyote. LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS - The bar, which is as big as the !! En inner check, is full of mirrors, - ba f[-l- V7 green leather walls, a black ceil- ing and tomato red: furniture. In, Siegel's casino you help the other: customers pass $100,000 each | night across the blackjack, Tou- lette and dice tables. Just five years age, Renny the Bug, awaiting trial on charges of rubbing out a New York thug, got the Los Angeles jail physi- cian suspended for serving him steak and pheasant, But that diet I at the Fiamin 1d you} (enna nns eeremneeeem renerereel \ \ cn <7