What follows for the Las Vegas historian is a first person narrative of the heady days of glitz and glamour in show business as witnessed and participated in during it's years following the second world war. Early Las Vegas had very few natives, and native Las Vegans never referred to their home town as 'Vegas' The great majority of Las Vegans came from somewhere else and constituted the bulk of it's population. Constantly reinventing itself, defying the odds of becoming a ghost town after a bust, fiercely independent and proud of it, Las Vegas, unique in every way, soon became the envy of many. Another two decades would pass, and speaking for all my peers and myself, those wondrous years between 1954 and 1974 in our city had to be known affectionately as Las Vegas' Golden Era.

Résumé
Las Vegas, Nevada in the early forties and fifties through the seventies was a unique spot on the face of the globe known as "Sin City USA". It harbored the famous and infamous, and the term "anything goes in Las Vegas" was not an empty utterance. It was distinctly different from any other city in the country and proud of it. The saying went for entertainers: "If you haven't played Las Vegas you haven't arrived ". Where every resort casino offered a dinner show at eight and a cocktail show at midnight seven nights a week with top flight lounge acts performing nightly through dawn. it was the only real twenty four hour town where guests could saunter across the desolate strip with a drink in their hand at three in the morning and not get noticed, and where one could order a full steak dinner at five am.This then is a first person's remembrances of that glorious time when it was one's dream to call Las Vegas home.