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Nevada Gaming Commission

government agency, Nevada, United States

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history of Las Vegas

  • Las Vegas: the Strip
    In Las Vegas: Emergence of the contemporary city

    …late 1950s the newly established Nevada Gaming Commission—which was responsible for licensing and overseeing gambling operations—began to curtail severely the freedom of gangsters to operate in the city. In the early 1960s the commission formulated its so-called “Black Book”; seeking to remove corruption from the gambling industry, the commission listed…

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