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American World Traveler Winter 2021-22 Issue

Now in our 20th year of publishing, American World Traveler explores the culture and history of worldwide destinations, sharing the adventure of discovery with our readers and motivating them to make their travel dreams a reality. Published quarterly, AWT helps sophisticated, independent American travelers choose their next destination by offering a lively blend of intelligent, informative articles and tantalizing photographic images from our World’s best destinations, cruises, accommodations and activities to suit every traveler's taste.

Now in our 20th year of publishing, American World Traveler explores the culture and history of worldwide destinations, sharing the adventure of discovery with our readers and motivating them to make their travel dreams a reality. Published quarterly, AWT helps sophisticated, independent American travelers choose their next destination by offering a lively blend of intelligent, informative articles and tantalizing photographic images from our World’s best destinations, cruises, accommodations and activities to suit every traveler's taste.

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12<br />

The Flamingo Hotel and Mob Museum: Speaking Easy in Vegas<br />

Article and photography by Jennifer Merrick<br />

History? In Vegas? Didn’t the city just<br />

rise up out of the Mojave Desert as<br />

a bastion of adult vice with over<br />

12,000,000 neon lights burning, an adult<br />

amusement park with a hall pass for questionable<br />

behaviour? After all, as the sign in<br />

the airport says, “What happens in Vegas,<br />

stays in Vegas.”<br />

Casinos are regularly demolished, rebuilt<br />

and renamed; their neon signs sent out to<br />

pasture to spend the rest of their days in the<br />

Neon Boneyard. Yes, only in Vegas is there a<br />

graveyard for signs that have outlived their<br />

usefulness. The genie’s lamp from the<br />

Aladdin Casino, a giant nugget curtesy of<br />

the Golden Nugget Hotel Casino and a hotpink<br />

Liberace signature are among the more<br />

than 250 signs that rest in peace here.<br />

Bothered only by the tourists who take their<br />

picture for the ‘gram.<br />

But if you look a little closer and ask a few<br />

questions (but not too many), you can<br />

glimpse Sin City’s past. It may not be a long<br />

history, but what it lacks in time, it makes up<br />

for in intrigue and glamour.<br />

The Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel and Casino<br />

Opened by the infamous mobster, Benjamin<br />

(Bugsy) Siegal, in 1947, the Flamingo Hotel<br />

is credited for bringing Hollywood glitz to the<br />

desert.<br />

Caesar Las Vegas Media<br />

www.caesars.com<br />

Photo: CanaDream<br />

www.<strong>World</strong><strong>Traveler</strong>.Travel

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