THUNDERBIRD HOTEL - NEVADA CASINO DEALER'S APRON - RARE - LAS VEGAS, NEVADA

Description

FOR  YOUR  CONSIDERATION
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A VINTAGE: NEVADA CASINO BLUE DEALER'S APRON
FROM THE:
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THUNDERBIRD HOTEL
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A DIVISION OF CAESAR'S WORLD, INC.
This auction is for an original and wonderful vintage and quite rare: Nevada casino dealers blue apron, w/ great graphics, with/out elastic band, from the long gone:
Thunderbird, Hotel and Casino.
The Thunderbird was located on the fabulous: Las Vegas Strip, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
There is no writing on there reverse.
Just a bit of Thunderbird Hotel information:
On September 2,1948,
the Thunderbird Hotel
(1948-1976) was the fourth resort to open on the Las Vegas Strip. The resort had a Native American theme and featured portraits, a Navajo-based restaurant, the only bowling alley ever on the Strip, and a showroom.
The Thunderbird
has the distinction of being the resort where singer Rosemary Clooney made her first appearance in Las Vegas in 1951, and where Judy Garland made her final Vegas appearance in 1965.
And nowjust a bit of
Caesars World's information
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In July 1972, it was announced that
Del Webb
would sell the
Thunderbird
and surrounding acreage for .5 million to
Caesars World
, owner of the
Caesars Palace
resort on the Las Vegas Strip. The sale was approved later that year.
Caesars World
planned to build a new resort, the Mark Anthony, on the newly acquired property. The project was named after the Roman politician and general Mark Antony, and the resort would have served as a companion to
Caesars Palace
. The Mark Anthony would include a 2,000-room hotel, a casino, and a shopping complex. The Thunderbird would continue operations until the near-completion of the Mark Anthony. At the end of 1972,
Caesars World
planned approximately 0,000 in renovation work for
the Thunderbird
, believing it could bring in a profit before its planned demolition about two years later. The Thunderbird was operated by a
Caesars World
subsidiary called Paradise Road Hotel Corporation. After a global search,
Caesars World
was unable to find financing for the 0 million Mark Anthony project, and its cancellation was announced in June 1975.
Caesars World
initially stated that there was no intention of selling
the Thunderbird,
and that there were several plans in consideration for the property.
In1976,
Caesars World
announced that it would sell
the Thunderbird
for million to Tiger Investment Company, a group of Las Vegas bankers that included E. Parry Thomas. At the time, the hotel had 460 rooms. Joan Louise Siegel, a Las Vegas resident, filed a suit to block the sale. During 1975, she had made two offers to purchase the Thunderbird for million, but was told that the resort was not for sale. A district court judge dismissed the suit, stating that
Caesars World
had no obligation to sell the resort to Siegel. Tiger Investment completed its purchase later in 1976, and
Caesars World
had the right to resell the property until the end of the year. The sale agreement also involved a leaseback, in which
Caesars World
continued to operate the resort while it was owned by Tiger Investment. The Thunderbird had presented
Caesars World
with significant financial losses.
Condition is as follows:
This vintage Las Vegas, Nevada - Casino dealers Blue apron, displays some minor cracking of the decal on the front, small stain on the back, some folds due to storage.  There are a few small flea bites, on the obverse and reverse.
Approximate dimensions are as follows: 21
1/4
” x 13
1/2
”
This apron does not come with the elastic wrap-around belt.
Please take a look at the provided photographs, for a better view of the description.
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