New Frontier Hotel and Casino

don't know, Richard.

Years ago, 20 or so, the Frontier on the Las Vegas Strip in their high-limit room, there was a sign on the wall that if you got a jackpot at 1,250, which was a relatively common jackpot with $5 times 250, you could voluntarily take $11.95 every time.

And a lot of players took advantage of that.

And a lot of players like that.

Dunes is no more.

I think the first place I ever gambled at at 20 was the Frontier.

That's not around anymore.

Fremont Street is definitely a shithole now.

Resorts World would be a great...

Me, me and Chris just drove by and, and, and, uh, my daughter, we just drove by there and w- the old Frontier site, and, um, yeah, it's empty.

Let's go.

NBA up there, Murph.

Well, to begin with, you might think, well, it would be obvious that, that it was very successful and that, and it was its own demise because it was so successful.

There was these four resorts: the El Cortez, the El Rancho, the Nevada Biltmore, and, um, um, the Old Frontier.

Uh, these were honestly run local people, and they were so successful that they got the attention of Meyer Lansky over on the East Coast.

Uh, probably one of the smartest mob guys, uh, ever-

But when it comes to, um, there's the, the idea that the m- that, uh, organized crime on the East Coast created Las Vegas or created the, the, um, the iconic vision of Las Vegas, and that's just not true.

Yeah.

Uh, the res- the re- resort was, uh, uh, in all of its basic particulars and how it operated for the following decade, decade and a half, was all created by, uh, Thomas Hull, um, Kel Hausels, all locals, um, and, uh, B- Bill Moore, who's the one that built the old, old Frontier.

Um, it was a, it was a thriving business with all of the basic particulars of, of what was drawing it and everything.

He worked at the Stardust.

He started the Frontier.

He's worked all over Vegas.

And he was also a regulator for the state of California.

So it's their first full-length magic show in Vegas.

It's at the Frontier.

It's a massive hit.

They, they become absolutely huge.

Faced with the prospect of greater state attention to gaming control, Eastern mobs began taking their profits and withdrawing from Las Vegas.

The Desert Inn, Sands, and Frontier were all sold to industrialist Howard Hughes in 1968.

The sale of the Flamingo to Kirk Kerkorian and the sale of Caesars Palace to a public corporation in the early 1970s effectively ended the presence behind the scenes of Meyer Lansky and his New York-Miami associates.

It all combined to set the stage for the National Organized Crime Treaty of 1977, a treaty that guaranteed the Chicago mob of its preeminence in Las Vegas.