It's the world's Sin City, where fortunes and made and lost.
In this episode, you'll learn about the history of this unlikely city, from its early days as a desert oasis to its links with the Mafia, from eccentric entrepreneurs right through to atomic bombs.
- Geographic location of Las Vegas
- Discovering Las Vegas ("The Meadows")
- 1905: A sleepy railway town
- Construction begins on The Hoover Dam
- Providing entertainment for construction workers
- 1930s and 1940s: Bugsy Siegel and The Mafia arrive
- Bugsy Siegel's early life
- Building The Flamingo
- Post World War II: "cheap luxury"
- Watching atomic bombs explode
- Howard Hughes arrives and never leaves
- Pushing the mafia out of town
- 1980s: Las Vegas revival
- Las Vegas today
Full interactive transcript, subtitles and key vocabulary available on the website: https://www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/las-vegas
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