Long gone are The Sands and the Desert Inn. You can see the history of the Flamingo in Barry Levinson's Bugsy, with Warren Beatty in the title role.
Of the five establishments targeted, you can only now lose a bob or two in one of them – the Flamingo Las Vegas, 3555 Las Vegas Boulevard South (owned by the same corporation as Caesar�s Palace) dating from 1946 and, of course, the brainchild of mobster Bugsy, sorry, Benny Siegel (although El Rancho, built in 1941, was the first hotel-casino, the success of Vegas is usually dated from the opening of the Flamingo). Unlike the recent remake, the 1960 film has Danny Ocean’s ( Frank Sinatra) gang targeting five separate casinos. The locations for the original 1960 Ocean's Eleven are mainly in Las Vegas, which is – conveniently – where the stars happened to be performing. Ocean’s Eleven location: Robbing the casinos: The Riviera, 2901 Las Vegas Boulevard South at Riviera Boulevard, Las Vegas
