Sands Hotel

One of the most iconic of the hotel-casinos built on the Las Vegas Strip, the Sands hotel would literally put Las Vegas in the national spotlight as a center of entertainment and celebrity hangout, especially while it served as the home base for the popular Rat Pack performers in their heyday, from the late 1950s through the 1960s. The Sands closed in June 1996, and was reduced to rubble in an implosion later that year. Adelson's $1.5 billion Venetian hotel, with 3,036 rooms, opened at the site in 1999, leaving virtually no trace of the once-famous Sands.

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