Gamblers unwavering in loyalty to Station

Station Casinos celebrated its 30th anniversary last month without the usual public fuss of cake or champagne but with lots of behind-the-scenes back-slapping and kudos.

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Fri, August 4th, 2006

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  • The second oldest casino hotel resort on the Las Vegas Strip was the Last Frontier and it opened in October of 1942. It had 105 guestrooms and the property was made to look like an old western town. The first casino hotel resort opened just 18 months earlier and was called El Rancho.
  • In 1973, the Commission on the Review of National Policy toward Gambling was created to study gambling in the United States.
  • A nationwide survey by the U.S. Travel Industry Association found that 38% of all U.S. residents have been to Las Vegas in their lifetime. The average length of visitors' stay in Las Vegas was almost 4 days (3.7).
  • Gambling is defined by the Webster's New World Dictionary as the following: to play games of chance for money or some other stake, or to take a risk in order to gain some advantage.