Las Vegas Stripped Bare

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

With its reputation for glitz, glamour and gambling, Las Vegas has become one of the world’s foremost tourist destinations, with over 40 million visitors a year. But the bright lights and breathtaking architecture conceal a murky past. After gambling was legalised in Nevada in the 1930s, a raft of hotel-casinos sprang up under the control of gangsters such as Bugsy Siegel and Frank Costello – a state of affairs that continued well into the 1960s.

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0:00.0	Vegas is incredible. Vegas is like a whole other world. It's an escape for everyone from anywhere.
0:07.0	I mean this is the place everyone comes to get away from their reality.
0:10.0	And that makes it like a Disneyland for adults.
0:13.4	Falling for Las Vegas.
0:15.4	Where the lights they shine so bright.
0:19.6	Falling for Las Vegas.
0:21.6	But at a strip, it's a way of life. Las Vegas.
0:25.0	Mother and a strip, it's a way of life.
0:28.0	Hi, I'm Adele Edelman. For the last 25 years, I've been driving passengers around Las Vegas in a sleek limousine and I've met lots of
0:35.1	fascinating people along the way.
0:40.1	You're listening to the BBC World Service.
0:42.6	This is my town and my story.
0:45.0	For the 40 million tourists who visit each year,
0:48.4	Las Vegas is a city of Fun and Exis,
0:51.2	a place to shop, take in a show, and to gamble.
0:54.0	You don't know how to gamble and you bought in for a hundred bucks and you're up $2,000 and
0:57.4	holy cow, do you take it home or do you keep spending it?
0:59.7	To the 2 million people who live here who keep the dice rolling the wedding bells
1:03.8	ringing and the wheels turning this amazing metropolis is home it's my home too
1:09.5	I have had people ask me well what casino do you live in, what
1:12.6	hotel do you live in?
1:13.6	What would I live in a hotel for?
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