El Rancho Vegas Casino Duplicate Check To Joe E. Lewis Mafia June 15, 1955

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El Rancho Vegas Hotel Duplicate copy of check to "Joe E. Lewis "
Date is June 15, 1955 . Amount of check was ,000.00. This is #9115.
The El Rancho Vegas Hotel was the first Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip (Highway 91), It burned down in 1960 in a spetacular fire that toppled the famous neon windmill sign. El Rancho Vegas Property has remained vacant until just recently.
Here is more information from Wikipedia:
In 1927, Lewis refused the request of Jack "Machine Gun" McGurn (an Al Capone lieutenant) to renew a contract that would have bound him to sing and perform at the "Green Mill Cocktail Lounge", which was partly owned by Capone. After refusing, because he had been offered more money by a rival gang to appear at their own club - "The New Rendezvous", he was later assaulted one morning in November 1927 in his 10th floor Commonwealth Hotel room, mutilated and left for dead. It took him a few years to learn to speak again. Capone, who was fond of Lewis, was displeased with the assault, but wasn't about to take action against one of his top lieutenants. He proceeded to provide Lewis with ,000 to allow him to recover properly and eventually resume his career.
Lewis toured in the USO shows with Ray Bolger in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Joe appeared in the movies "Too Many Husbands" (the 1931 short comedy), "Private Number" (1936), "The Holy Terror" (1937), "Private Buckaroo" (1942) & played himself  in "The Lady in Cement" (1968). He appeared frequently on "The Ed Sullivan Show" and was the "Mystery Guest" three different times on "What's My Line" and was interviewed on "Person to Person" in 1956. He married Martha Stewart in 1946 and they divorced in 1948. Random House published Lewis's biography "The Joker is Wild" written by Art Cohn in 1955.
He died in 1971 and was buried in Cedar Park Cemetery, Emerson, New Jersey. Joe E. Lewis is also written about in a book by Steve Fisher "When The Mob Ran Vegas".
This is in condition as shown in scan.
It is the original Duplicate copy of check and check stub attached.
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