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One of the Las Vegas Strip’s most iconic casino resorts opened 60 years ago today. The Stardust was renowned for its neon signage and topless showgirls – and notorious for its underworld connections. Tony Cornero first conceived of the Stardust in the early 1950s. It would be the crowning achievement he sought following a checkered past in the casino business.

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Cornero, whose family moved to the United States from northern Italy when he was a child, had a long history in Las Vegas. He was fresh out of federal prison when Nevada legalized commercial gambling in 1931. Cornero had done well for himself in the rum-running business in Southern California during Prohibition, but ran afoul of Uncle Sam on bootlegging charges.

While he was in prison, his brothers, Louis and Frank, opened the Meadows Club, an ahead-of-its-time hotel-casino – with a band stage and elegant furnishings — far from the hustle and bustle of the lowbrow gambling joints on downtown’s Fremont Street. Located just outside the city limits where Fremont Street merges into Boulder Highway, the Meadows brought a touch of glamour to the desert, and might have been a model for self-contained casinos far from the urban core. When a fire erupted in the casino, the Las Vegas Fire Department refused to battle the blaze because the Meadows was located outside the city limits. Left with a hotel and a burned-out casino building, the Corneros sold their interest in the property. Locals nicknamed him “The Admiral” for running his floating casinos.

In 1938, Tony began operating offshore gambling ships in Southern California, including one dubbed the S. While his ships spelled success for Cornero – he reportedly took in million a year – California law prohibited casino gambling. That year, back in Southern California, he launched another casino ship off Long Beach, but the U. Coast Guard seized it, ending his nautical efforts there. He maintained that since his vessels were three miles out to sea, state and federal laws did not apply. Supreme Court, which ruled that his casino ships operated in state waters. But after a falling out with his partners, Cornero left the S. In 1948, while meeting at his home in Beverly Hills with potential investors in a casino project in Mexico, a supposed deliveryman appeared at the door and shot Cornero in the abdomen. But California Governor Earl Warren felt differently. Cornero returned to Las Vegas in 1944 to join some partners in a small casino, the S. Though critically wounded, he recovered, but the Mexican deal fell through. Cornero, still optimistic, turned his eyes back to Las Vegas, this time with a dream of building the world’s biggest casino, the Stardust. The Securities and Exchange Commission, along with his penchant for high-stakes craps-playing, impeded but never stopped Cornero’s progress.

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Construction of the Stardust, planned to have 1,000 hotel rooms, was well on its way in 1955. But the Nevada Gaming Commission, seeing Cornero’s background as unsuitable, refused to grant him a gaming license. So he inked a deal with investors headed by former Los Angeles illegal gambler Milton B.

“Farmer” Page to lease the Stardust’s hotel and casino for an unheard-of $500,000 per month. On July 31, 1955, he gambled away $37,000 on a craps table at the Desert Inn. While in a heated argument with a casino dealer over a $25 chip, Cornero suffered a massive heart attack and fell dead “before he hit the floor,” the coroner later stated.   Construction of the Stardust was nearly three-quarters complete.  

John “Jake the Barber” Factor, brother of cosmetics giant Max Factor and a man who was reportedly not a stranger to the Chicago Outfit, purchased the still-unfinished Stardust and brought in Moe Dalitz and the management of the Desert Inn to run the casino. The Stardust opened in a blaze of fireworks on July 2, 1958.

With its 1,000 guest rooms, it was bigger than any hotel previously opened in Las Vegas. Size, rather than style, was the hotel’s most prominent feature. Its 16,000-square-foot casino was immense for its time, and the 140-foot bar that ran along much of its east wall was the forerunner of The D’s present-day Longbar in downtown Las Vegas.

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But the real star of the Stardust at its opening was the , the first topless French revue production staged in Las Vegas. Producer Donn Arden became renowned both for the technical complexity of the Lido – the stage mounted on six hydraulic lifts that could raise and lower it as the drama demanded – and the beauty of the costumed showgirls. With its hotel rooms sprawling to the back in two-story wings, the Stardust’s chief roadside visual impact was its brightly lit sign — a 216-foot-long universe of celestial bodies joined by a round Earth circled by a satellite. The sign was a record-setter, as was the 105-foot-long Big Dipper pool. Dalitz and his associates ran a profitable casino with the help of manager Johnny Drew. The Desert Inn crew remained lessees of Factor and his associates until 1965, when they became the owners of the property. Three years later, Howard Hughes attempted unsuccessfully to buy the Stardust.

Having already bought the Desert Inn from Dalitz, the eccentric billionaire wanted to own what was, at the time, the state’s biggest casino. However, the Justice Department’s antitrust division halted what they thought would be an unfair concentration of casino ownership. It added a nine-story tower, bringing its total room count close to 1,500, and several new restaurants.