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Sahara Las Vegas is a hotel and casino located on the Las Vegas Strip in Winchester, Nevada. It is owned and operated by the Meruelo Group. The hotel has 1,616 rooms, [1] and the casino contains 50,662 square feet (4,706.7 m 2). [2] The Sahara anchors the northern end of the Las Vegas Strip, at the corner of Sahara Avenue.
This is an exterior view of the Sahara and its porte cochere, showing models entering the hotel and exiting a car, in Las Vegas, Nevada on August 18, 1954. (Las Vegas News Bureau Collection, LVCVA ...
In May 2019, SLS brand owner SBE Hotel Licensing, LLC filed a lawsuit alleging that Meruelo's Las Vegas Resort Holdings, LLC had failed to pay at least $450,000 in licensing fees since November 2018. [16] On June 28, 2019, The Meruelo Group and Alex Meruelo announced plans to rename the SLS Hotel as The Sahara Las Vegas.
William G. Bennett (November 16, 1924 – December 22, 2002) was an American gaming executive and real estate developer. Noted for pioneering Las Vegas as a destination for middle-class tourists and their families, he is best remembered for his establishment of gaming giant Circus Circus Enterprises in 1974.
On August 1, 2007, Navegante was approved to operate the Sahara Casino while the new owner, SBE Entertainment, worked to obtain their own license. [ 4 ] In May 2009, Navegante joined with other partners in forming Aqueduct Entertainment Group to bid on the casino to be built at Aqueduct Race Track .
It was owned by Walter E. Cosgriff, who also owned a stake in the Bank of Las Vegas, whose Chairman was Nate Mack. [2] The Bank of Las Vegas was the first bank to lend money to casinos in Las Vegas. [4] Its first loan was to Milton Prell, who used it to build the Sahara casino. [3] [4] Later, Jerome D. Mack replaced his father as Chairman. [5]
Marshall Sylver (born Marshall Walter Sylwestrzak) is an American motivational speaker, author, and performance hypnotist who works primarily in Las Vegas, Nevada. He has billed himself as "The World's Fastest Hypnotist". [1] His Las Vegas shows have been at the Sahara Hotel, the Stratosphere, the Palms and Harrah’s.
Miller died on December 9, 2002, in Palm Springs, California, at the age of 98. [2]Miller married four times. [7] He was survived by his fourth wife, Denise B. Miller. [2] He had three children, record producer and musician Jimmy Miller (who predeceased him in the 1990s and was previously married to Australian television personality, actress and singer Kerri-Anne Wright), reporter Judith ...