The Palace: Where Everyone Is A King
Undoubtedly one of the hottest casinos on the Las Vegas strip, this hotel and casino in Nevada is one of the states biggest landmarks. Part of the Caesars Entertainment corporation, which boasts hotels in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, Atlantic City, New Jersey and other points of the United States. The hotel was established in 1962 when Jay Sarno, a cabana motel owner, used ten million dollars that had been lent to him by the Teamsters Central States Pension Fund to draw up plans for a hotel on land owned by Kirk Kerkorian. Sarno would later act as designer of the hotel he planned to construct. Quite a feat for a cabana boy. The decision to call it Caesars Palace was due to his thinking that the name would remind people of Julius Caesar, reminding people of royalty and this hoping that they’d go there. Sarno thought that people should feel they were at a king's home while at his hotel. The name of the hotel is often spelled "Caesar's Palace", although the real name is "Caesars Palace", making it think that everyone who stay’s there can be a “Caesar”. Sarno contracted many companies to built the hotel, from the Roman landscapes it presents, to the water fountains that have been stages of various events and the hotel's swimming pools. Over the years, the hotel has been owned by various companies, notably the Sheraton and The Hilton International Corporation. Its current owner, the Caesars Entertainment (formerly known as Park Place Entertainment), bought the property in 1999. Many star performers,