Bugsy Siegel & The Flamingo 

You did real well with this. If there was a PhD given to someone for mob study , I would have a couple of them. I'm afraid I must have something wrong with me but I find these old school gangsters and the schemes they made out on absolute genius. I've read just about anything and everything on Siegel and, not meaning to degrade your good work, I just have really struggled to find anything new on him. Any suggestions for a book you may have knowledge of. I would greatly appreciate. Thanks again

@@Rocks_Dad Thank you, I don't have any really good book in particular to suggest.

That is too funny! There is a photo of Al Capone in this one like the Meyer Lansky skimming case one, plus he is mentioned once.

Thank you Keno for your kind words and support.

agreed! this channel is pretty freakin amazing.

Thank you, that is a very cool document, the signed stock certificate.

There is a lot of information on Bugsy Siegel.

Thank you Alan, hopefully your girlfriend tolerated it! LOL

Thank you for watching Ted.

Most welcome.

Thank you for the kind words.

I totally agree

Thank you Simon, it goes a bit into the weeds but I would always rather have too much info than skip some details.

Thank you Cali, I am happy to be moving on to a different topic now.

Thank you Mark for the kind words, Siegel's saga is an appropriate phrase.

Thank you for the kind words!

I have been working on this since January, half the time on this project and half the time on the weekly show. Although some of the research was done last summer when a I did a brief history (10 minutes) of the Flamingo.

Thank you Kia!

Very true, although she does admit that she didn't know about his business life.

@@VegasVisual true. But she knows all that has been rewritten and publicized. She may not know - “first hand”- yet …

@@cuts240 Yes, she has no excuse.

What were his redeeming qualities? Are there any of his rumoured crimes that you don't believe he did? @@VegasVisual

@@paulchristie8452 Bugsy was good to his family, his kids at least.

Thank you.

Thanks Coco, no worries about missing the premiere. The next one isn't too far away, Part II is Sunday at 7 pm.

Most welcome.

Thank you Rick. I have been working on the Flamingo topic since November and I completed the Meyer Lansky Flamingo skimming case history in late January. I have been working on this Flamingo Bugsy history since late January. It's time to get off the Flamingo topic and work on some other Vegas history projects.

seriously! he puts some serious work into his videos

Very cool! You were part of Vegas history. In part II to this video there is information on the Oregon building

Most welcome, more to come but they will tend to be shorter projects.

Thank you. The one thing historians give Bugsy credit for is bringing people to Vegas in droves but that was after he was murdered and the murder was linked to Vegas and the Flamingo. So his biggest accomplishment was being murdered. A top 10 list of most important developments in U.S. Gaming history listed Bugsy Siegel as 1 of the 10, a list compiled by historians and gaming experts. 10 Most Important Events In U.S. Gaming History: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3wAW4OSNJSU.html

Thank you for your support, I try to complete a history vlog every month but like this one it took several months. I also do a weekly show on Mondays about Vegas vloggers that you may or may not be interesting in watching.

This is not a regurgitated story. This video uses original documents, quotes and FBI memos to report on the information about Bugsy and the Flamingo. But yes, many Bugsy videos are regurgitated stories. Here is Meyer Lansky and the $ 36M Flamingo Skimming case, again, using original sources and FBI memos: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3J-8uQpShnU.html

@@VegasVisual you did good. Sorry if my comment read otherwise. There just isn't a whole lot on Siegel. I think we he was alive he, of course, was secretive and I believe society was different to the point no one cared too much to document them

Wow, That's Very interesting, Only in 1990 Bugsy wasn't alive He was murdered in 1947, I believe it's been said. 👍

@@brianpress1392 so I thought also but it is true I know another guy who was in the know of mafia business who said a lot of the exiled in the vagas mob found refuge in the wilds of alaska

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Bugsy was in charge of the Flamingo construction and management on behalf of the Commission. The reason why the mob leadership didn't like him, besides spending/wasting too much money on the Flamingo, is because Bugsy didn't always follow directions from the mob leaders, he did his own thing as I mentioned in a quote early in the video. The mob bosses probably wanted an experience manager for the Flamingo but Bugsy probably wanted to do it himself. The Flamingo started making money just before Bugsy was murdered and it made a lot of money after Bugsy was murdered. If Siegel would have just spent about $1M on the construction instead of over $5M then the Flamingo would have made money from the start.

@@VegasVisual Thank you for getting back to me. I stumbled on your video while looking for information on Susan Berman, whose father Davey ran the Flamingo for awhile in the years after Bugsy's demise. I went to UCLA with Susan and was hanging out with her when she learned her dad had been a mobster, I think in about 1969. I was last in Las Vegas in 1960. I would never want to see it now.

@@lemorab1 Sure, you must have some great experiences from the Vegas past. Vegas has changed a lot since the 1960's, its a whole new world or universe.

@@VegasVisual it wasn’t that easy not to spend more money on the construction of the flamingo. After WW2 the cost of all the materials increased, it was hard to get materials, workers were stealing materials when they actually got them and then sold them back to bugsy…he couldn’t control everything but bugsy’s biggest problem was his vision was far for more elaborate and expensive then what the other investors wanted….he would have somebody work on a section of the hotel and then bugsy wouldn’t like the design and then have the workers tear everything down and start all over. Bugsy’s suite that he had built for himself was so elaborate and he even had a secret stairway to get away. Another problem was I truly believe Virginia hill was the one stealing the money and not Bugsy. Bugsy became obsessed with the hotel and casino and every detail imaginable and then Virginia hill and Bugsy were not good together. They were crazy together lol

@@Mcdamn1026 One big problem is that Bugsy had no experience building a hotel.

Hello friend, thank you for your support!

Thank you!

Benny took over the construction of Flamingo from Billy Wilkerson who ran out of money to complete Flamingo. The Flamingo and the Strip were not Benny's idea.

@@VegasVisual I meant to add Fallout New Vegas lol

@@GanondorfsWife Im not sure if Benny from Fallout is designed after Bugsy but could be.

@@VegasVisual Looks like it tbh.

I knew the film footage of Bugsy was rare but I didn't know there were only two verified clips of Bugsy. I didn't really think about what Bugsy was holding in his pocket but it would be interesting to know what was in his pocket. The FBI files has a lot of great info on Siegel.

@@VegasVisual on youtube type bugsy siegel at arrowhead. There is a short color film of him lounging around with some of the same guys in the film on your video. He did some screen tests ad he fancied himself movie star potential but it seems to have been lost. I'm a bugsy fanatic. I even went to the mansion where he was shot and looked through the same window he was shot through.

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Hope to see you tonight Denise.

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Thank you for the clarification. I heard that there are only two confirmed film clips of Bugsy Siegel and I assumed this was one of the two. These are like "first drafts" because I have found more information about other history vlogs that I will be updating in the coming years.

this back in 1975

Great story, 1975 was back when the Flamingo still had some of the original structures.

@@VegasVisual yes, my uncle live there since 1945, has single level hotel cheap rooms for five dollars a night but he become a alcoholic gambler spend all his money . he even hire men to remove him from table after he built up the money before he loses it all /

@@onlythewise1 Wow, your uncle lived through lived through classic Vegas and he was a lot like Billy Wilkerson but didn't have the money that Billy had.

@@VegasVisual nope but he owned a bar and a dog race track ,

It truly is amazing how loose things were back then. It was still like the wild west back then.

@@VegasVisual I bet they had one hell of a good time. Siegel spent so much money he didn't value it. Virginia Hill spent so much the movie stars couldn't keep up with her. I bet it was one hell of a good time, as long as you didn't get shot in the head

@@Rocks_Dad Yes, some people with a lot of money don't value money as much.

@@VegasVisual Siegels daughter was buried in a non Jewish accepted paupers funeral because apparently she was broke. You never know with Jewish folks, she might a gave a few million away to her grandkids with instructions to give her a paupers funeral. I think she was broke and I find it sad the lady wasn't buried according to her familys religious standards, especially given her father left her and her sister 500 acres of land on the strip when he died. Do the math, modern day 500 acres on the strip would be worth billions with a B wouldn't it ? She either was stolen from or extremely misled. Her uncle was a prominent Beverly Hills Dr. wasn't he? Something doesn't sound right, seems like that family would spring for a proper Jewish burial

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Very true.

The FBI spent slot of time watching Lansky's dog.

Very much so.