LAS VEGAS -- With Las Vegas booming in the 1950s, casinos were built farther and farther out on old Route 91 to intercept gamblers driving in from Los Angeles, who after 265 weary desert miles would surely stop at the first casino, right? Well, pretty soon Las Vegas was leapfrogging its merry way toward California, creating the Strip.
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