- SKU: 9780990966401
- BARCODE: 9780990966401
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Coming to Las Vegas: A true tale of sex, drugs & Sin City in the '70s - Paperback
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by Carolyn V. Hamilton (Author)
"Candid, informative, impressively well-written, and at times downright eye-brow raising, Coming to Las Vegas is an inherently fascinating and thoroughly absorbing read from first page to last." - Midwest Book Review
In this fast-paced, eye-opening, tell-all romp through 1970's Las Vegas, Carolyn V. Hamilton's social commentary names real names, real places, and real events. These true stories reveal keen insight into casino life in the Las Vegas of the era. Fresh out of commercial art school, Hamilton has moved from Los Angeles to Las Vegas to join the newly-formed and short-lived Las Vegas International Circus. When she is hired for the opening of the MGM Grand, Hamilton quickly learns the ways of the casino world. Along with her fellow female workers, she battles sexual pressure from bartenders and the machinations of unscrupulous casino bosses who resent the tips players give to cocktail waitresses. She also learns how government affairs really work as she deals with federal government job discrimination, a bigamist husband, and a 1974 crippling, city-wide Las Vegas Culinary Union strike that, while none of the cocktail waitresses take it seriously, proves to be an eye-opening political experience. Coming to Las Vegas, A true tale of sex, drugs & Sin City in the 70s is a highly personal, revealing and entertaining memoir of three years in the seventies in the life of a nice Lutheran girl from Seattle who finds herself making a ton of cash in Las Vegas' newest, biggest, and most extravagant hotel/casino, the original MGM Grand. To learn more, CLICK on Amazon's "READ MORE" feature, and order your copy today!Author Biography
Carolyn V. Hamilton is the author of several novels and co-author of another Las Vegas memoir, Cork Proctor's "My Mind is an Open Mouth, a Life Behind the Mic." She is also Editor & Chief Adventuress for the digital magazine adventuress-travel-magazine.com. She divides her time between Las Vegas, Nevada, Seattle, Washington and her home in Cuenca, Ecuador, South America.
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