Harrah's Las Vegas - A Caesars Rewards Destination
Casino resort once dressed as a giant Mississippi riverboat, now fronted by towering jester statues.
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This guide to Harrah's Las Vegas follows Claudine Williams, who took over her husband Shelby's Holiday Casino after his death in 1977 and became one of only a few women running a casino on the Strip. You'll hear how the riverboat-themed resort grew through the 1970s and 80s, from cut-rate slots and bingo to a New Orleans-style plaza and a towering paddlewheel ship modeled after the old steamer Robert E. Lee. By 1990 that riverboat stretched four hundred fifty feet along the Strip, with an eighty-foot paddlewheel and twin smokestacks rising over the boulevard.
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