SAHARA Las Vegas

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.