Silver Slipper - "Pumped Up" - Las Vegas, Nevada
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DougK
N 36° 10.627 W 115° 08.142
11S E 667657 N 4005204
This Silver Slipper was originally in front of the Silver Slipper Casino
Waymark Code: WMQNCV
Location: Nevada, United States
Date Posted: 03/07/2016
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The Silver Slipper Casino in Paradise, Nevada, operated from September 1950 to November 29, 1988.
Wikipedia tells tells this story of Howard Hughes:
On April 30, 1968, the Silver Slipper was purchased by businessman Howard Hughes for $5.4 million in his famous spending spree of buying Vegas properties, which included the Frontier next door. Legend has it that he purchased the casino because the lights from the rotating slipper bothered him. This was a time when Hughes feared for his safety, and because the toe of the slipper always stopped and faced the window of his Desert Inn penthouse before rotating again, he feared a camera could be planted in the toe either by the government or someone else. After several attempts at requesting that the slipper be turned off, Hughes purchased the casino, turned off the lights and had the rotating mechanism dismantled.
Today, the Neon Museum owns this slipper. They have restored it and in 2009, mounted it atop a pole on the median strip across the street from the museum.
The Silver Slipper can be seen in Google Street View.
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