Sinatra, the Rat Pack & the Golden Age of Las Vegas

Las Vegas in the 1950s and 1960s (the 'Golden Age' of Las Vegas — the era when the Desert Inn, the Sands, the Flamingo, the Riviera, and the Stardust casinos defined American glamour, when Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack made the Copa Room at the Sands the centre of the American entertainment universe, and when Las Vegas was simultaneously the most glamorous and the most dangerous city in the United States): the history of Las Vegas from railroad town to global entertainment capital is the most dramatic urban transformation story in American history.