Guy McAfee was an American law enforcement officer and businessman.
15 Facts About Guy McAfee
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Guy McAfee was the owner of brothels and gambling saloons, with ties to organized crime in the 1930s.
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Guy McAfee co-founded casinos in Las Vegas, Nevada in the 1940s and 1950s.
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Guy McAfee is credited as the first person to refer to Las Vegas Boulevard as the Las Vegas Strip, after Los Angeles's Sunset Strip.
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Guy McAfee was born on August 19,1888 in Winfield, Kansas.
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Guy McAfee subsequently served as the head of the vice squad of the Los Angeles Police Department.
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When Judge Fletcher Bowron was elected as the 38th Mayor of Los Angeles on a platform to rid Los Angeles of prostitution, gambling and narcotics in 1938, Guy McAfee moved to Las Vegas, Nevada within a year.
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In 1939, Guy McAfee acquired the Pair O'Dice Club on Highway 91 and renamed it the 91 Club, and the Frontier Club, downtown Las Vegas.
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Meanwhile, with Milton B Page, McAfee managed the El Rancho, another casino.
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Guy McAfee was a co-founder of the Pioneer Club in 1942.
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Guy McAfee was president of Golden Nugget from 1952 until his retirement in 1960.
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Guy McAfee named the Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas after the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles.
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Guy McAfee was a co-founder of the unincorporated place of Paradise, Nevada near Las Vegas.
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Guy McAfee resided at the Biltmore Hotel, a luxury hotel in Downtown Los Angeles.
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Guy McAfee married his second wife, June Brewster, in 1936.