Las Vegas has always had a certain edge and mystique. In the 1930s, gangsters used to hide out in the hotels and casinos, and Bugsy Seigel will forever be remembered as the man who helped fund the Flamingo. Vegas was the glitzy stomping ground of blue-eyed Frank Sinatra and his rat pack. The glamour and boozy elegance of Las Vegas is immortalized in countless films. Even when the corporations tried to clean up Vegas in the 1990s and make it a more family friendly place, people were nostalgic for the seedier and more hedonistic side of Las Vegas. Today, Vegas is not the Sin City of the 1930s, nor is it the gentrified Disneyland of the 1990s. It is somewhere in between. There is a happy equilibrium of hedonism and corporate polish.
