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Effects Of Casino Gambling in Las Vegas
by Jerry "Jet"
Whittaker
Oct 17, 2006
Effects of casino gambling in Las
Vegas
Las Vegas, the gambling capital of America, Las Vegas is
America’s second biggest city for tourists with 28
million visitors in 1994, compared to 34 million to
Central Florida. Americans spend $300 billion each year
in legal gambling, and the gambling industry has become
a big contributor to tax revenues for the government.
Certainly Las Vegas has benefited from casino gambling,
the state of Nevada legalized gambling in 1931 and Las
Vegas benefited. The evolution of Las Vegas from the
Great American Desert, to a boomtown is mostly due to
the Hoover dam and casinos. It was turned as a town in
1905. The federal highway program, air-conditioning, and
a national mob of criminals with skills in cheating were
perfectly suited to a state where casino gambling was
legal. The story of Benjamin Segal, the Los Angeles
gangster and business partner of New York gangster,
Meyer Lansky, built the Flamingo casino which was highly
successful. The success of Flamingo made others to
follow with cheap motel and casinos on the highways
quick divorce and marriage capital of the US, desert
Laundromat of mafia money became the trademarks
of Las Vegas. Elsewhere in America, gambling was
considered a crime but in Las Vegas it was legal.
Mafia and casino gambling go hand in hand for Las Vegas,
the race for setting up casinos in Las Vegas attracted
big investment and land in Las Vegas, which was the
right of the native Indians was robbed off. The whole
casino business in Las Vegas was operated by the mafia
and organized crime. Casinos built as theme parks
attracted tourists and casino gambling assumed a
respectable position. Las Vegas came up as mix of
several elements of American culture: the defiance of
nature, highly cheap land, vast empty space for
expansion, this urban growth based on extreme
conditions has certain catastrophe. The destiny of Las
Vegas seems bright in the same sense that a nuclear
explosion is bright, but which is doom for mankind.
Even the casual tourist can see that Las Vegas is
approaching its high point in terms of culture and
scale. Las Vegas’ gigantic physical features will make
it prone to political, economic, and social changes. Las
Vegas has cheap food, but the result is a growing rate
of obesity.
The popular image of Las Vegas created by the media and
by the 3.5 million tourists who visit every year. Its
development as a major wonderland is due mainly to
casino gambling.
Las Vegas
serves as a typical model for urban development for any
nation.
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