A decade-by-decade party for Las Vegas' 100th birthday.

From: The Orange County Register (Santa Ana, Calif.) (viaKnight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) | Date: June 13, 2005 | Copyright information

Byline: Gary A. Warner

LAS VEGAS _ Your heirs would have reaped a humongous payday if you had bet 100 years ago that this parched and dusty watering hole on a missionaries route from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles would ever amount to anything.

Las Vegas turned out to be a world-famous playground with 17 of the 20 largest hotels in the world and an airport landing jumbo jets filled with gamblers from Europe and Asia and across North America.

Think Lotto-level odds of all that happening. Or that proverbial snowball in hell.

Las Vegas has always been about rolling ...

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