This rare green tie, with silver lettering and a covered wagon with mules hitched up, was worn by the dealers at the Westerner as shown in the image. We have been collecting artifacts from the ...

    Image from UNLV University Libraries Gam's Restaurant was opened in 1952 by Emilio Georgetti, an Italian from San Francisco who purchased the Westerner from Benny Binion. The name Gam's comes from a shortened ...

This advertisement from the Las Vegas Sun in January 1952 is the only example of advertising of the Westerner during the ownership of Emilio Giorgetti we were able to find in our research. If you ...

  The year is 1954 and Las Vegas is just beginning to awaken to the age of nuclear testing and the growth of the casino industry. Many new gambling establishments are emerging, some located downtown ...

This orange swizzle stick with the cowboy on top is from the days when Benny Binion owned the Westerner. It represents an era when Las Vegas was a wild west town where prospectors and cowboys ...

Last August my father and I visited county and state offices in Las Vegas searching for historical documents. Our first destination was the Nevada Gaming Control Board at 555 E Washington Avenue #2600. They were uncertain ...

This 1957 tear-off wall calendar is one of my favorite pieces of Westerner memorabilia. It features a white-bearded western styled artist surrounded by discarded drawings on the floor. His sketchpad depicts a smiling risque cowgirl ...

       The 1957 Gaming Guide is a special publication to me as it shows my father, Henry Sylvester, sitting at the bar in the Westerner Club. My father was a partner in the ...

Welcome to our website. This project is a collaboration between me and my father. It started with my father's glass display case of Westerner memorabilia. I was asked to document the collection and noticed that ...