It was a legacy that wore the face of a tough Italian immigrant but which had its roots in an Irish-American experience that began in a time and place known as the wild-west. Witnesses to the destruction that day did not have to look very deep into the Stardust�s history to see the reflection of a legacy that originated in the streets of Kansas City. Among the crowd of cheering spectators was a scattered collection of old-time gamblers who couldn�t bring themselves to applaud the destruction of the legendary landmark folks who never quite took to a corporate style Sin City and remained nostalgic for an era personified by Frank Sinatra, fleshy female floorshows, and that illicit group of entrepreneurs know as the Mafia. On Maa demolition crew in Las Vegas, Nevada engineered a dramatic implosion that brought the Stardust Hotel and Casino crashing to the ground on which it stood for a half-century. "The Mafia and the Machine: The Story of the Kansas City Mob"Įxcerpt from chapter 1: Welcome to the Machine Please enjoy excerpts from Frank's new book
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