when was the orleans hotel in las vegas built
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title: Las Vegas in the 1950s text: on 10 January 1957. The Tropicana opened on 3 April 1957 at the Tropicana – Las Vegas Boulevard intersection. In 1955, Ben Jaffe, an executive of the Fontainebleau Miami Beach, came to Las Vegas and bought a 40-acre parcel at the corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Bond Road (now Tropicana Avenue). Jaffe aimed to build the finest hotel in Las Vegas, featuring a Cuban ambience, with four room themes for guests to choose from: French Provincial, Far East, Italian Renaissance, and Drexel. Construction ran over schedule and over budget, due in part to competition for labor with the under-construction title: History of Las Vegas text: out of business. On April 3, 1941, hotel owner Thomas Hull opened the El Rancho Vegas. It was the first resort on what would become the Las Vegas Strip. The hotel gained much of its fame from the gourmet buffet that it offered. On October 30, 1942, Texas cinema magnate R. E. Griffith rebuilt on the site of a nightclub called Pair-O-Dice, that first opened in 1930, and renamed it Hotel Last Frontier. A few more resorts were built on and around Fremont Street, but it was the next hotel on the Strip that publicly demonstrated the influence of organized title: Las Vegas Grand text: was expected to cost $360 million. Construction was expected to begin that summer. In July 2004, Del American received a $240 million loan for the project, from Lehman Brothers and from Hypo Real Estate Capital Corporation. At that time, more than 800 of the project's units had been reserved, with construction scheduled to begin in September 2004. Construction was delayed by permitting issues. During the delay, Turner resigned itself from the project because of rising construction costs. Summit Builders became the new contractor. Grading and infrastructure work was underway in early February 2005. Plans at that time included the 12-story title: Las Vegas text: in 1935. In 1941, the Las Vegas Army Air Corps Gunnery School was established. Currently known as Nellis Air Force Base, it is home to the aerobatic team called the Thunderbirds. Following World War II, lavishly decorated hotels, gambling casinos, and big-name entertainment became synonymous with Las Vegas. In the 1950s the Moulin Rouge opened and became the first racially integrated casino-hotel in Las Vegas. In 1951, nuclear weapons testing began at the Nevada Test Site, northwest of Las Vegas. City residents and visitors were able to witness the mushroom clouds (and were exposed to the fallout) until 1963, when title: Orleans Hotel text: in 1852 along with many other Sacramento buildings in a large fire. It was rebuilt by the next year, this time in brick, only to meet the same fate in another fire in 1923. Several attempts were made to build on the site of the former Orleans Hotel since 1975, but none succeeded until a business owner financed a new mixed-use building in 2007, with construction finished in 2008. Today the new Orleans Hotel replica is a four-story building with an exterior that matches the Gold Rush-era original. There are 24 rental lofts on the upper floors and was built