When built the driveway past the fountains, he set the entrance way back from the street. If you go to Disneyland and walk through a tunnel into the Magic Kingdom, it’s supposed to psychologically take you out of the real world - and you merge into an imaginary world. All I knew about building a hotel was a lot of screaming, yelling and cussing from hearing my father on the phone. I used to look out the window and watch Caesars Palace being built - I was fascinated. The home my mom had bought wasn’t ready, so we moved into the Dunes. JAY CAMERON SARNO, Son of Jay Jackson Sarno We moved to town in June 1965. It’s where Evel Knievel crashed - and nearly died - while attempting history’s most famous motorcycle jump, where Muhammad Ali got clobbered by Larry Holmes in one of boxing’s most-watched bouts and where Frank Sinatra and countless others played the Circus Maximus showroom (until it was torn down and replaced by The Colosseum, where Celine Dion performed as Vegas’ first “resident artist”). During the past 50 years, Caesars has been at the red-hot center of the town’s biggest sports and entertainment events. The idea to erect an ancient Rome-themed hotel and casino in the middle of the Nevada desert was the brainchild of Jay Jackson Sarno, an Atlanta motel mogul who - with partners Nate Jacobson and Stanley Mallin and buttressed by a $10.6 million loan from the Teamsters - built what would become the most historic Las Vegas property of them all. 5, 1966, there was no mistaking who this gigantic columned temple belonged to: The greeters dressed as gladiators and waitresses in Cleopatra outfits made it clear this was Caesars Palace. Originally it was going to be called the Cabana Palace.

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