The first hotel in Las Vegas opened in 1906, several decades after Nevada became a state in 1864. Another Las Vegas hotel had already claimed that title, however. Hull’s resort idea opened in 1941, and many people still mistakenly think that it was the first hotel in Las Vegas. The plot of land El Rancho Vegas stood on has yet to be fully developed six decades later.
The large resort that he imagined never really came to fruition. It started as a casino only, meaning that it was not the first Las Vegas hotel. It was the dream of Thomas Hull, a California businessman who’d built successful hotels all over the state. It was on a stretch of Highway 91 now known as the Las Vegas Strip. Some claim that the hotels and casino resorts on the Strip today actually got their start at a casino known as El Rancho Vegas.
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