Steve Fischer
Auteur van When the Mob Ran Vegas: Stories of Money, Mayhem and Murder
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Algemene kennis
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- 20th century
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Woonplaatsen
- New York City, New York, USA
Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA - Opleiding
- University of Iowa
- Beroepen
- historian
sales and advertising - Korte biografie
- A few years ago, when Omaha-based historian Steve Fischer retired from a career in sales and advertising, he began listing his Vegas memorabilia on eBay. From those listings evolved colorful stories of the people and places Fischer knew so well during his early years in advertising, living in LA and driving on weekends across the desert to Vegas where he amassed a priceless collection of Vegas postcards, vintage hotel keys, menus from all the showrooms, signs, autographs and memories. The stories in this book, now in its fifth printing, tell true crime tales of the desert city he has seen grow and change over the last 40 years.
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I quibble with some information being a bit off, such as casino boss Gus Greenbaum and his wife were not decapitated in Phoenix as reported here, but this is one of the few books about Vegas that attempts to explain what happened to the Moulin Rouge casino, which if you're familiar, that mention will get you interested. Lots of dirt on mob guys and their casinos, and a look at the city's past.… (meer)