The Hoover Dam , formerly called the Boulder Dam is in Black Canyon, on the Colorado River and on the Arizona-Nevada border. It was constructed between 1930 and 1936, it is the highest concreted arch dam in the US. It incompasses Lake Meade one of the largest artificial lakes in the world. The dam is used for flood and silt control, domestic water supply, hydroelectric power and agricultural irrigation. Hoover Dam is named in honor of Herbert Hoover, the president at the time..
Sin City…it’s history…
Las Vegas was founded as a city on May 15, 1905, when 110 acres of land were auctioned off by the railroad company. In 1941 the western-style El Rancho Vegas hotel‐casino, became the first themed resort on the Strip. This was followed by the Last Frontier (1942), Flamingo (1946) and Thunderbird (1948) hotels and casinos. Soon organized crime followed and Las Vegas's embrace of Old West-style freedom…gambling and prostitution…provided a perfect home for organized crime. Beginning in the 1940s money from drugs and racketeering built casinos so they could be used for laundering money. Soon it was known as Sin City, because with the mob being in charge and two of the most notorious men (mobsters) Benjamin “bugsy “ Siegel and Meyer Lansky, running the city…Sin was rampant …but Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky weren’t the only mobsters running amuck around the streets of Las Vegas. Plenty of gangs from NY, Chicago came flooding in to grab a piece of the action! Along with them came visitors to partake in what the casinos offered: luxury and the thrill of fantasies fulfilled.
Today Las Vegas boasts over 150,000 hotel rooms, over 300 weddding a day and MGM Grands bronze lion is the largest bronze statue in the US!
We only stayed a few day in Las Vegas, we went to Gold and Silver Pawn Shop, the strip (of course) and some more sights Las Vegas has to offer. I only lost $5!
