Desert Inn Casino Owners Toni and Wilbur Clark Personal Items
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Dec 4
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Dec 4
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Please open the auction link for more than 400 lots of items in this amazing Vintage Vegas auction!
It does not get more Vintage Vegas than this sale! This is the personal property of the Desert Inn Casino owners' home from the Desert Inn Country Club (now the Wynn). Some pieces are from the Desert Inn Casino (patio furniture, kitchen table)
Wilbur and Toni Clark are legendary Las Vegas casino and socialite figures. Wikipedia reports:
"He purchased El Rancho Vegas in 1944. A year later, in 1945, he purchased Monte Carlo Club. In 1946, he sold El Rancho Vegas. With that money, he built the Desert Inn casino in 1947. However, he quickly sold most of his interest to businessman Moe Dalitz, owning only 17.5%. Another business partner was Hank Greenspun, the publisher of the Las Vegas Sun newspaper. He remained the public face of the Desert Inn. In the 1950s, he organized the Tournament of Champions, an annual golf tournament at the Desert Inn Golf Course, televised by NBC. He sold his share in 1964.
During his time as head of the Desert Inn, Clark had a charity called 'Wilbur Clark's Cavalcade of Charities.' In 1964, as part of the charity, he helped organize the first ever professional football game in Las Vegas, an American Football League preseason game between the then Oakland Raiders and Houston Oilers. The game helped establish a relationship between the Raiders's Al Davis and Las Vegas. That relationship between the Davis family and Las Vegas was eventually a motivating factor in his son Mark Davis relocating the team to the Las Vegas Area in 2020 as the Las Vegas Raiders.
Later, he developed Wilbur Clark's Paradise Gardens, located at 4505 South Maryland Parkway, south of the Thomas & Mack Center.He donated the land on which Guardian Angel Cathedral was built."
Read about Toni Clark: https://womennvhistory.org/portfolio/toni-clark/
Also, check out UNLV Special Collections and Archives: https://special.library.unlv.edu/taxonomy/term/16937
Please open the auction link for more than 400 lots of items in this amazing Vintage Vegas auction!
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