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Constantly reinventing itself, Las Vegas, is celebrating a 100th anniversary in its own unique vintage casino style. In honor of the gambling festivities, a birthday cake the size of a basketball court was prepared along with fireworks, concerts, and a group marriage for 100 couples – which will round-up the weekend's special events. It is incredible to think that Las Vegas didn't have a paved road until 1924.

"Las Vegas was a speck in the desert in 1905", Nevada state historian Guy Rocha said. "Now there's not a place in the modern world that doesn't recognize Las Vegas". The town got its start a century ago because the railroad to Los Angeles from Salt Lake City needed a place to house workers. Today it's a go-go, 24-hour metropolis of gambling, nightclubs and restaurants that lures 37 million tourists a year to mingle with 1.7 million residents who drive on car-choked freeways.

Marquee casinos with flashing lights and dancing fountains and canals sprouted where springs dried up long ago. Down the Las Vegas Strip are scale models of the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State and Chrysler buildings, the Eiffel Tower and an Egyptian pyramid. Up the Strip, the curvy, ultra-fancy Wynn Las Vegas resort opened last month at a cost of $2.7 billion. The roots of modern Las Vegas can be traced to 1931, when state lawmakers relaxed divorce laws and legalized casino gambling, and the federal government began building what would become Hoover Dam 30 miles east of town.

Bugsy Siegel broke ground on a hotel along the Strip in 1945 with $1.5 million from New York and California mob associates. A year later and $4.5 million over budget, it opened as the Flamingo. Within months the legendary mobster was shot to death, but his hotel - and Las Vegas - would thrive.

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