BONUS: Stories from the Steer

Mobbed Up: The Fight for Las Vegas

Las Vegas Review-Journal | The Mob Museum

Documentary, History, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

"They didn't care if you were a mobster or a corporate executive or a politician or a federal agent." When Frank Cullotta arrived in Las Vegas in 1978, one of his first stops was The Golden Steer Steakhouse, where he and Tony Spilotro sat down to discuss their plans for the future over dinner. The restaurant's current owner, Dr. Michael J. Signorelli, shares a few tales from the Steer's storied past. To learn more about The Golden Steer, or to order online, visit www.goldensteerlasvegas.com.

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0:00.0	Frank Kallatoa arrived in Las Vegas in 1978. And as you heard in Part 7 of this series, His first stop in Sin City
0:13.6	was to check in with Tony Spelatro.
0:16.0	I met him at the Gold Rush, which was on Sarah.
0:19.3	The Gold Rush, Tony's jewelry store,
0:21.2	was located on the north edge of the Las Vegas Strip,
0:23.6	228 West Sahara Avenue. Right next to the Circus Circus where Tony ran a gift shop
0:28.6	in the early 70s and at the time just a stone's throw from the Stardust Hotel and
0:32.4	Casino.
0:33.0	Go west.
0:35.0	Hello?
0:36.0	Yeah, how you doing?
0:37.0	Good, how are you?
0:38.0	Okay.
0:39.0	How you feeling?
0:40.0	Fine.
0:41.0	That clip you just heard was an FBI wiretap recording of Tony, answering the phone at the
0:45.1	Gold Rush in 1978. The same year his friend Frank showed up in Vegas.
0:50.0	I met him in front, I was with some broad and I had the car with me,
0:53.6	drove down with her. So I get out of the car and Tony,
0:57.8	Herbie Blitzstein standing there, I know Herbie. So he tells Herbie, stay over to Herbie. So we go on this side and he tells me we're talking with our hands like this.
1:07.0	According to Frank they would talk with their hands in front of their mouths so that anyone who might be surveilling them couldn't make out what they were saying.
1:13.7	He says, I'm glad you came.
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