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Contents Hal Rothman and Mike Davis PART I IMAGE AND REALITY Introduction: The Many Faces of Las Vegas / 1 Norman M. Klein Scripting Las Vegas: Noir Naïfs, Junking Up, and the New Strip / 17 Francisco Menendez Las Vegas of the Mind: Shooting Movies in and about Nevada / 30 Peter Goin Discordant Infrastructure / 59 PART II NUTS AND BOLTS Eugene Moehring Growth, Services, and the Political Economy of Gambling in Las Vegas, 1970–2000 / 73 Jay Brigham Lighting Las Vegas: Electricity and the City of Glitz / 99 Jon Christensen Build It and the Water Will Come / 115 Robert E. Parker The Social Costs of Rapid Urbanization in Southern Nevada / 126
Courtney Alexander Rise to Power: The Recent History of the Culinary Union in Las Vegas / 145 PART III VOICES Mike Davis Class Struggle in Oz / 176 Brian Frehner “Squeezing the Juice Out of Las Vegas”: Reflections On Growing Up in Smalltown, USA / 187 Shannon McMackin I Didn’t Know Anybody Lived There / 195 William N. Thompson How I Became a Native / 208 PART IV SHAPING LIFE Kit Miller Inside the Glitter: Lives of Casino Workers / 214 Joanne L. Goodwin “She Works Hard for Her Money”: A Reassessment of Las Vegas Women Workers, 1945–1985 / 243 Mike Davis The Racial Cauldron / 260 Constance Devereaux Inside Jean / 268 Amie Williams Looking into a Dry Lake: Uncovering the Women’s View of Las Vegas / 291 PART 5 FROM PARIAH TO PARADIGM Hal Rothman Colony, Capital, and Casino: Money in the Real Las Vegas / 307 Kathryn Hausbeck Who Puts the “Sin” in “Sin City” Stories? Girls of Grit and Glitter in the City of Women / 335 William N. Thompson Nevada Goes Global: The Foreign Gaming Rule and the Spread of Casinos / 347 Richard Misrach Canto: Las Vegas / 363 Contributors / 377 Index / 379
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LAS VEGAS OF THE MIND 57 17. Ibid.,
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Discordant Infrastructure peter goi
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“Just Married—What You Looking
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The Stratosphere Tower, view from t
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Sunset at Main Street and Bridger A
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View of intersection along Las Vega
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Trees in planters, abandoned motel,
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PART II NUTS AND BOLTS
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74 EUGENE MOEHRING with Wynn’s in
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76 EUGENE MOEHRING Spray Cranberrie
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78 EUGENE MOEHRING ambitious develo
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80 EUGENE MOEHRING its dominant pos
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82 EUGENE MOEHRING candidates. As t
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84 EUGENE MOEHRING precious metals
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86 EUGENE MOEHRING with additional
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88 EUGENE MOEHRING is going to have
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90 EUGENE MOEHRING essary degrees)
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92 EUGENE MOEHRING the fact that ma
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96 EUGENE MOEHRING 7. R. Keith Schw
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98 EUGENE MOEHRING 44. For the emer
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100 JAY BRIGHAM outset of World War
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102 JAY BRIGHAM outstripped the ori
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104 JAY BRIGHAM sources of power. A
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106 JAY BRIGHAM casinos. An Electri
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108 JAY BRIGHAM most of the plant
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110 JAY BRIGHAM users,including cas
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112 JAY BRIGHAM NOTES Epigraph: Cha
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114 JAY BRIGHAM Special Collections
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116 JON CHRISTENSEN who engineered
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118 JON CHRISTENSEN north of Las Ve
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120 JON CHRISTENSEN tively known as
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122 JON CHRISTENSEN allocation from
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124 JON CHRISTENSEN had moved to La
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The Social Costs of Rapid Urbanizat
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128 ROBERT E. PARKER public partner
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130 ROBERT E. PARKER SOCIAL COSTS:
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132 ROBERT E. PARKER of 1996, Clark
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134 ROBERT E. PARKER per-person, pe
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136 ROBERT E. PARKER at 50,000, alt
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138 ROBERT E. PARKER test increase
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140 ROBERT E. PARKER resorts in 199
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142 ROBERT E. PARKER among the top
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144 ROBERT E. PARKER 47. Keith Paul
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146 COURTNEY ALEXANDER rations. The
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148 COURTNEY ALEXANDER political po
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150 COURTNEY ALEXANDER Union, that
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152 COURTNEY ALEXANDER the start of
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154 COURTNEY ALEXANDER riods of cas
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156 COURTNEY ALEXANDER borhood casi
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158 COURTNEY ALEXANDER opening of t
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160 COURTNEY ALEXANDER “grind joi
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162 COURTNEY ALEXANDER ing an indep
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164 COURTNEY ALEXANDER In the fall
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166 COURTNEY ALEXANDER to one last
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168 COURTNEY ALEXANDER orientation
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170 COURTNEY ALEXANDER that facilit
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172 COURTNEY ALEXANDER step of the
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174 COURTNEY ALEXANDER was growing
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Class Struggle in Oz 176 mike davis
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178 MIKE DAVIS reason, Arnodo and o
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180 MIKE DAVIS glorified the Holoca
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182 MIKE DAVIS mer residents of the
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184 MIKE DAVIS have a nightmare tha
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“Squeezing the Juice Out of Las V
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“SQUEEZING THE JUICE OUT OF LAS V
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I Didn’t Know Anybody Lived There
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I DIDN’TKNOW ANYBODY LIVED THERE
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DESERT LANDSCAPE I DIDN’TKNOW ANY
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HOW I BECAME A NATIVE 209 stop that
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HOW I BECAME A NATIVE 211 face. He
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HOW I BECAME A NATIVE 213 was a hou
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INSIDE THE GLITTER 215 interacted w
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INSIDE THE GLITTER 217 Because I’
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INSIDE THE GLITTER 219 When the mob
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INSIDE THE GLITTER 221 I wouldn’t
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INSIDE THE GLITTER 223 these jobs.
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Mario Brun. Mario Brun, cook.
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Bernice Thomas, maid trainer. Berni
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Hipolito Charles. Hipolito Charles,
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Roy Duncan, arcade manager. Roy Dun
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Mario Basurto, sign maintenance man
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LILO DISTLER PICKET CAPTAIN INSIDE
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INSIDE THE GLITTER 237 get drunk an
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INSIDE THE GLITTER 239 flowing. And
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“She Works Hard for Her Money”
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Miss Houston. “SHE WORKS HARD FOR
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THE RACIAL CAULDRON 261 Las Vegas.
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THE RACIAL CAULDRON 263 of these lu
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THE RACIAL CAULDRON 265 Grand, the
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THE RACIAL CAULDRON 267 For D and h
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INSIDE JEAN 269 opher Socrates used
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INSIDE JEAN 271 commuting back to L
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INSIDE JEAN 275 of prisons. Nevada
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INSIDE JEAN 277 Angus—Canadian-bo
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INSIDE JEAN 279 sold it on the yard
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INSIDE JEAN 281 for me at the end o
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INSIDE JEAN 285 sonal taste, and fi
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INSIDE JEAN 287 Los Angeles is Edwa
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INSIDE JEAN 289 The night Edward wa
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Looking into a Dry Lake: Uncovering
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LOOKING INTO A DRY LAKE 293 the plu
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Winged angel. LOOKING INTO A DRY LA
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LOOKING INTO A DRY LAKE 297 posher
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LOOKING INTO A DRY LAKE 299 won any
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LOOKING INTO A DRY LAKE 301 she’s
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NOTES LOOKING INTO A DRY LAKE 303 1
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Colony, Capital, and Casino Money i
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COLONY, CAPITAL, AND CASINO 309 of
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COLONY, CAPITAL, AND CASINO 311 aft
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COLONY, CAPITAL, AND CASINO 321 lic
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COLONY, CAPITAL, AND CASINO 323 ser
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COLONY, CAPITAL, AND CASINO 333 Dav
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Who Puts the “Sin” in “Sin Ci
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WHO PUTS THE “SIN” IN “SIN CI
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NEVADA GOES GLOBAL 357 Bill 470. Th
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NEVADA GOES GLOBAL 359 diction, in
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NEVADA GOES GLOBAL 361 table 2 visi
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Canto: Las Vegas Cadillac and sphin
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Suburb, Las Vegas, 1995.
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Pine tree and lawn, new housing dev
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Lake Mead, Nevada, 1986.
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Nineteen-foot diamond-studded chain
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Cloudburst, Nuclear Test Site, Neva
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Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, 1992.
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378 CONTRIBUTORS FRANCISCO MENENDEZ
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380 INDEX Binion’s Horseshoe Casi
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382 INDEX Gable, Clark, 53 Gamework
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384 INDEX Lowden, Sue, 82, 164, 171
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386 INDEX Reid, Harry, 192-193, 325
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388 INDEX White Pine Power Project,
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