During the past 50 years, Caesars has been at the red-hot center of the town’s biggest sports and entertainment events.
The idea to erect an ancient Rome-themed hotel and casino in the middle of the Nevada desert was the brainchild of Jay Jackson Sarno, an Atlanta motel mogul who - with partners Nate Jacobson and Stanley Mallin and buttressed by a $10.6 million loan from the Teamsters - built what would become the most historic Las Vegas property of them all. 5, 1966, there was no mistaking who this gigantic columned temple belonged to: The greeters dressed as gladiators and waitresses in Cleopatra outfits made it clear this was Caesars Palace.
Originally it was going to be called the Cabana Palace.
