Station Casinos announces fourth of July fireworks shows

Memorial Day, is considered to be the kick-off to summer and with that Station Casinos announced some big plans for the Fourth of July.

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Mon, May 25th, 2009

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  • Gambling is Often Legalized to Promote Economic Development of Depressed Areas. That was an important motivation in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, New Jersey, and many of the other locales for casinos.
  • 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.