Hotel Find - The Golden Gate Casino the Oldest Casino in Las Vegas,

And extremely expensive, hot, dirty, many would notice that it's dry, to stop and look at Vegas as a whole. Not many people pay attention to other aspects of Vegas. Odds are you're there to gamble, when you're in Las Vegas.

And some places in Vegas do have more appeal than others. We all love to gamble, but let's face it. The euphoric rush which takes over while gambling and partying often blinds individuals to the current state of affairs.

And people still frequent its small quarters, the Golden Gate Hotel & Casino really tells the sordid story of Vegas, though some people may rather stay in places like the Bellagio and Caesars Palace.

The casino opened in 1906 as the Hotel Nevada. Coming in at only 106 rooms, golden Gate is the oldest and smallest hotel on the Fremont, part of the Fremont Street Experience. You can find this Casino at One Fremont Street in Las Vegas.

The Hotel Nevada was expanded and then renamed "Sal Sagev" which is Las Vegas spelled backwards, after gambling was once again legalized in Nevada, in 1931. It was assigned Las Vegas' first telephone with the number 1, in 1907.

Four-story hotel was completely renovated in 2005, the 106-room. Its current name was picked up in 1955 when a group of Italian-Americans from San Francisco started the Golden Gate Casino.

Were coined as the "Original Shrimp Cocktails" and have become a mainstay of the San Francisco Shrimp Bar and Deli and is quite the favorite of both locals and tourists, available for years at 99-cent, the shrimp cocktails. Which is now a Las Vegas cliche, the Golden Gate was the first casino to serve a fifty cent shrimp cocktail.

The price did rise to $1.99 in April 2008, unfortunately for many of the cocktail fans. Millions of people make the trip into the casino each year just to try a shrimp cocktail. Golden Gate doesn't pad the glass with lettuce or any other filler, unlike other casinos who also offer 99-cent shrimp cocktails. The shrimp cocktails are what the Golden Gate Casino is best known for.

And ultimately passed off as Italian-American stereotypes, this was never proven. People heard rumors of mafia activity taking place in the Golden Gate, in the early 70s and throughout the 80s. But the shrimp cocktail isn't the only appeal that the Golden Gate has.

The Golden Gate isn't the only casino to suffer this fate by far. It's no wonder that people would crowd the casino in hopes of catching a glimpse of some sort of mob activity. America has always been enthralled by the mafia.

But Vegas has always stood as an institution solely for their gambling, hints and rumors of organized crime may bring in a certain niche. But it's Vegas after all. Another flux of activity soon hit Vegas, satirically titled Casino, after Martin Scorsese's film released.

It will be purely on nostalgia if not anything else. But the Golden Gate will always have a fan-base. Many people decided to go elsewhere, and after the price of shrimp increased to a dollar, their hotel is ripped to shreds by critics. This counts as something, and for most people. The fact is that they're the first casino around, or the cheaper prices at the Golden Gate, the mob, no matter the shrimp.