SAHARA Las Vegas
Historic Strip resort where the Beatles once stayed, its lounge once ruled by the Rat Pack.
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This guide to SAHARA Las Vegas centers on the summer of 1964, when this desert-themed resort, already home to the Casbar lounge where Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Junior once unwound, paid twenty five thousand dollars to get the Beatles to spend a night under its roof. It follows why the band's own concert had to move next door to the convention center, and the oddly subdued crowd of supper-club regulars who turned out for it. Listen for how the room here has carried the resort through two later reinventions under different names.
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