Three massive hotel towers featuring more than 3,500 guest rooms and suites-including the recently renovated Flamingo Rooms and Suites, and the new Bunk Bed Rooms and Suites form a horseshoe around the sprawling central pool and wildlife habitat area. The third hotel built on the Strip is now its most senior citizen, although decades of tearing down, rebuilding and remodeling mean that not one of the original buildings survives. The opening night headliner was Jimmy Durante, who demolished a $1,600 piano onstage.
The hotel towered a whopping four stories above the desert floor.
26, 1946, ribbon-cutting at Bugsy Siegel's showplace, the fabulous Pink Flamingo Hotel & Casino. Today's Las Vegas Strip would be unrecognizable to the crowd who attended the Dec. Flamingo Las Vegas is at 3555 Las Vegas Blvd.
