Las Vegas

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  • Foundation

    In 1905, Las Vegas was foundad as a kind of railroad town

  • Outlaw of Gambling

    Gambling was driven more to the backroom than to oblivion

  • 945 residents

    495 males; >18 years, working for railway station

  • 2304 inhabitants

    1298 males; >18 years or older; 54% worked for railroad

  • Great Depression

    Federal Projects dove southern Nevado to a "boom"
  • Period: to

    North-American Monopoly in gambling

    New Jersey opened first Casinos (Dombrik and Thompson, 1990
  • Period: to

    Hoover (Boulder) Dam

    5000 construction jobs were created

  • 10,389 people living

  • Period: to

    Magnesium plant

  • Gunnery School