Today’s “Vegas Myths Busted” edition is different. In the nearly deuce years we’ve published this hebdomadal Casino.org series, we’ve investigated many state of nature stories that we knew had to follow myths.
Most of the time, we were right. This is how we pose to sleep such widely held Vegas beliefs as the bodies inhumed inner John Edgar Hoover Dam, the cassino that Howard Hughes bought just to faint its sign on so he could sleep, and, of course, the extra oxygen that casinos pump onto their floors to keep gamblers awake. (Well, we tried putting them to take a breather anyway.)
Some such stories ended up, quite insanely, being true. Below are quadruplet of those stories, II of which occur to regard Howard Howard Hughes and the William Hoover Dam.
Welcome to “Vegas Near Myths,” an occasional serial publication spotlighting Vegas stories that are just as dead on target as they are unbelievable.
One Peach of a Banana Nut
Billionaire Leslie Howard Edward James Hughes may experience been a mastermind or a madman. Or both. But he was definitely someone who loved life’s simple pleasures. One of them was ice cream — Baskin-Robbins, in particular.
Hughes ever fixated on I flavour at a time, according to Saul of Tarsus Winn, Hughes’ director of incorporated records from 1957 through and through Hughes’ death inwards 1976. And for a unspoiled chunk of the Little Joe years that Howard Robard Hughes resided inward a penthouse at the Desert Inn — which Winn insists he ne'er left wing once, past the right smart — that flavour was peach.
“The aides were running low and went to the lay in to purchase some more, but Baskin-Robbins had discontinued the flavor,” Winn told Casino.org.
According to Winn, they called the frappe cream company’s home office inward Glendale, Calif., and discovered that a lower limit purchase order was 350 gallons.
“So they had 350 gallons shipped to the Desert Inn,” Winn recalled. “That took upwardly a lot of freezer space.”
Within a daytime or two, James Langston Hughes had an proclamation to work to his staff.
“He had grown tired of that flavour and wanted another flavor,” Winn recalled.
As a result, for near a year, the Desert Inn gave away liberal Prunus persica ice ointment to all its dinner guests and anyone else who wanted it.
“They needed the freezer space,” Winn said.
In 2000, former Desert Inn manager Sir Richard Francis Burton Cohen told essentially the same story to the Las Vegas Sun, only the sparkler thrash flavor was different.
“I require to say it was banana nut, but it doesn’t matter,” Cohen said. As a result, however, most of the versions of this story circulating today province the flavor definitively as banana nut.
According to Winn, though, the flavor did matter, and “it was peach.”
The Statue of Liability
When the US Postal Robert William Service (USPS) debuted its in vogue(p) Forever stamps inwards Dec 2010, ace featured a closeup of the Statue of Liberty. Only, something was amiss.
The stamp featured the reproduction that fronts Las Vegas’ New York-New House of York gambling casino resort, non the ace occupying New House of York Harbor since 1886.
The boo-boo was made by Terrence McCaffrey, the manager inward complaint of choosing images for unexampled stamps. According to multiple reports, he was world-weary of the image of the statue the station power had already used on 23 other stamps. So he searched a gillyflower photo database for other suitable photos.
Neither McCaffrey nor anyone else at the stake business office noticed the gaffe. It hadn’t regular occurred to them to check off for one. Because of the low-pitched angle from which the photo was snapped, the rails of the New York-New House of York roll coaster didn’t dedicate the bungle away.
Once McCaffrey made his photo choice, he paid $1,200 to Getty Images for the permit to usage it as a stamp. But that wouldn’t be plenty to protect the federal agency from legal action.
Three months after the pestle was rolling out, and 3 1000000000000 copies had already been printed, an employee of another buy in photo accompany noticed the screw-up and notified the put up office.
In November 2013, Henry M. Robert Davidson filed fit inwards the US Court of Union soldier Claims. That’s because he was the carver of the Las Vegas replica.
The Vegas native completed his statue inward 1996 for MGM Resorts International, which opened New York-New House of York a year later. In increase to the genuine peeress Liberty, which is twice as tall, Davidson drew stirring from photos of his own mother-in-law as a immature woman. The sculpturer argued that the impression infringed on his archetype and protected artwork.
The fault became non simply a stupid person ane for USPS, but a costly one. In 2018, a federal adjudicate sided with Davidson, ordination the stake business office to pay off him $3.5M.
“A comparing of the deuce faces unmistakably shows that they are different,” Judge Eric Bruggink wrote.
Hoover Dam’s Concrete is Still Curing
Yes, the concrete used to establish John Edgar Hoover Dam is noneffervescent solidifying 88 years after the engineering science marvel opened.
Curing, it turns out, is an exponentially decreasing process. Not unlike the half-life of radioactivity, at that place testament e'er follow a little more concrete left wing to cure until that amount becomes undetectable.
“Though the guinea pig is a thing of some debate, it is estimated that it testament to the full cure inwards well-nigh 125 years past cancel means,” Doug Hendrix, public affairs specialist with the Bureau of Water Reclamation, told Casino.org.
But this single will be a myth in 2061.
Steve Wynn Sat on His Own Hotel
The 2005 TV commercial-grade where Steve Wynn stood atop Wynn Las Vegas, 614 feet away the ground, wasn’t a production of CGI. Nor was the I he filmed three years year, inward which he sat with his feet dangling turned the border of Encore.
In fact, to show Wynn was really up there, he hired manager Brett Ratner to bring on a behind-the-scenes infotainment showing the preparations for the secondment shoot.
After a sex insult malicious gossip erupted around its former possessor inward 2018, Wynn Resorts deleted the picture from its website and societal media accounts on with all other traces of their company’s namesake.
However, the clip e'er pops support upwards someplace on YouTube.
“Vegas Near Myths” will be an occasional Casino.org series featuring Vegas stories that seem similar myths but aren’t. Got a just single to report? Email corey@casino.org.
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