Don't hate cuz you didn't think of it first. It's pretty brilliant and pragmatic. Mormons have invested very smart over the years, it's pretty impressive considering how they are often painted as "backwards".
as a vegas native it’s always so interesting to see the stereotypes about our city from the perception of tourists. it’s even more interesting to see their reaction when they see how involved mormons were/are in vegas. they’re usually aware of the mob’s history but the presence of mormons in vegas and the suburban areas near it is ridiculously high. i didn’t actually go to a school that wasn’t overwhelmingly predominantly white/mormon until i got to high school, and it was because it was a magnet school with kids from all over the valley and even some outside of the clark county school district. interesting dichotomy for sure, mormons funding sin city. fun video!
Mormons believe all non-mormons are subhumans to be exploited. It's the same believe that the Muslims and Jews have about other races and other religions. Mormons are mean, vicious cruel people who practice witchcraft and blood atonement. Blood atonement means they believe they need to kill non believers who live among them, or fellow mormons who committed grave sins. The federal gov won't let them murder people anymore, so they gang stalk the people they have religious based hatred against to drive them out of their communities. Mormons have the same "Mark of Cain" belief systems that the KKK had. The Masons have this same view. Is it any wonder the Mormons came from the Masons and are brothers to the KKK?
Dude, saying you're mormon is nothing to brag about, plus the mormons in mafia is a joke, if it ever came down to it the Catholic Italian mafia would wipe mormon mafia out in a second
@@aaronjess1608 awww poor you! Do you need a hug? Go find mommy and tell her you desperately need a mom hug cause all of your meanies are showing! And then take a nap cause you definitely need some beauty sleep! You have all kinds of uglies coming out of your mouth! Beauty sleep will fix that right up! Ok now, you have a blessed day!
Yeah state history when you grow up in Nevada is always a wild time. Do I know calculus? No. Do I know the first casino in Las Vegas and why the Donner Party met their fate crossing the Sierra Nevadas? Yes. Yes I do.
@Aaron J it was to make a statement regarding this twisted cults sick demented past. Meaning that according to them that they are pure and want those to ‘forget’ the factual past. And what a POS they were & really still are
A Roman-Catholic Nerd to a Latter-Day Saint's Nerd, MOST DUMMIES out there including the entertaining individuals who created this video will always make the mistake of deferring to the Largest Big City or Metropolitan Area............There's been so many times Stockton, CA despite being 300,000 People will get referred to as Sacramento or one of the Bay Area Suburbs, say like San Mateo or Vallejo will get very freaking wrongly referred to as San Francisco..............."There's a lot of Dummies Out There" ( To Quote Don Rickles ). They're not smart guy's like you and me !
Makes me question everything on the video when they can’t don’t know the difference between Carthage, a town sitting a few miles east of the Mississippi River nearer Iowa, than Chicago, which is on the Wisconsin/Indiana borders on Lake Michigan.
Google how Mitt Romney made his money .. casinos and tobacco . Hypocrisy it’s everywhere, the world has so many hidden secrets which through research through the internet can be exposed
Seems like the Mobsters and Mormons had a "gentlemen's agreement." I'm sure the Mobsters made very generous donations to LDS. To quote a lyric from Hamilton: "Hate the sin, love the sinner."
Dude the Mormon church paid odd tons of people. They still pay off politicans today. If they don't like laws or whatever (say the one that said gay folks can legally marry) they fund/blackmail whoever they need to to stop it. The Mormon church is nothing but a bunch of child molesters and money grubbers like the Catholic church.
You mormon idiots need to realize that if you think you are cool that there are mormons in mafia just remember, the Italian Catholic Mafia would wipe mormons out in a second if they had too
Merry Christmas! I was raised Mormon in Arizona. It is very true that all of the states that surround Utah (Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, etc) have large populations of mormons because when they got to Salt Lake Brigham Young sent some people to settle in the surrounding areas. I had heard about Mormons having something to do with the casinos in Vegas, but didn't know any specifics until this video. Thanks for sharing! Mormons dont talk about their history unless it makes them look flawlessly perfect, so they obviously don't talk about this hahaha
I am still a member of the church and very active, I have to dissagtee about the points on history. I am very aware of the flaws of human nature and the consequences of those weaknesses and ills. Hopefully the focus becomes and remains on the Savior in the individual lives of people, and not on the lives of people and their weaknesses. That alone will take a person from God.
Yeah I used to be. Go ask an elder about Joseph smith practicing polygamy and marrying other missionary’s wives. You’ll get the reverse of the truth. “Oh no. That’s the reorganized church.”
The church compromises its squeaky clean image playing a neutral stance. But its not neutral is it? The church makes tremendous investments. But do the membership, who's ten percent tithing provides the capital for those investments, ever see a report on how the "stock" is doing? Nope. We're told "dont' question the Lord's annointed." The church has build a beautifully, cynically crafted money generating machine. A successful investment firm that neither pays taxes or has to do something so inconvenient as to provide transparency or accountability. Its a capitalist firm wearing a religious mask.
@ron Gordon Never once in my life in the church heard or was offered a general expenditure/investment scheme or report of the church. Every chapel should have in its library one or more comprehensive reports, compiled annually of ALL church owned enterprises, businesses, real estate, investments, and their EXACT worth. That should include the general authorities salaries, living allowances, and travel expenditures.
Howard Hughes only hired return missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints because of the reasons that were mentioned, but also, he said in a interview that they were the only ones he could trust.
Perry Thomas was not an active Latter-day Saint, but his upbringing influenced him to have a tremendous impact on the area. He pushed out the mob, and brought in corporate ownership. He was willing to take a chance on loaning money to casinos so the mob lost control of them. Other LDS have influenced the roads, the water, the schools, and family life there.
As someone who grew up in Carthage, IL I'm pretty peeved that my favorite RU-vid channel got Joseph Smith's place of murder mixed up with Chicago. The jailhouse he was killed in still stands and is open to the public. Nauvoo, IL where the big temple was built is only 30 min north of Carthage.
I haven't made it to Vegas yet but I was in Salt Lake for the Olympics and I've seen a couple temples and I have to say that they are some of the best modern stonework I've ever seen!!!
I love it here, too. My husband is a retired fighter pilot and this was our last assignment. We’d planned to retire in Texas, but we stayed and we love it.
@@76_Red_Pills I just moved from Vegas after being born and raised for 31 years. Good on your dad. We need more kids like you. You north, Henderson, green valley, etc? I was everywhere lol. Mainly east side
Regarding, Mormons They aren't who you think they are. They run their church like a business. Who knows what kinda of hypnosis goes on in their Temples or Casinos?
Consider doing a video on old Seattle- the evolution of The Crapper, the great fire in Pioneer Square, raising the streets and the subsequent underground, and the brothels... Err I mean seamstresses! Definitely some weird history there.
Harry Reid doesn't really have any political leanings he's just a corrupt official who's willimg to do anything for a dollar and/or power. As for political labels themselves I'm not too big of a fan because things are constantly moving so it's unless it's possible to have an accurate label. What was considered very liberal 30 years ago is now considered conservative. In fact the GOP are j basically just Democrats 2012
As a mormon who lives in Vegas, I am happy that you published this video. It’s a very *proud* story that many of the old people like to tell, about how the Mormon Mafia basically ruled Vegas financially for a time. It’s a thing that we’re meant to be proud of. Now if you ask , most of the financial control we had over las vegas is gone, but there are many and I mean MANY Mormon lawyers. So take that for what you will :)
Most of them are folks raised Amish who either left before joining the church as young adults or maybe left latter in life. A few are active Amish. I lived for a time in eastern Pennsylvania and most of those guys weren't actually Amish, but just raised in Amish communities. They have to formally join at adulthood and if they choose not to then they're not Amish. But yeah, they do exist. I've heard of an active Amish community in Mexico working with the cartels.
Hi. Im a direct descendant of one of those first men called by Brigham Young to be missionaries to the Native Americans in Las Vegas. Our family has copies of his journals and first hand accounts. The main purpose was to convert Native Americans, second was the outposts. My descendant died in 1862 and its true that he recorded it being very difficult to survive there. Ended up settling back in Southern Utah. My personal opinion is that Mormons laid some groundwork so people could live there., but Mobsters build what it is today with a couple Mormons along the way happen to live there and were trying to make some money in real estate.
This video had a catchy title but Mormon mobsters is a bit of a stretch. Lots of your data was just inaccurate. That doesn't surprise me for some reason most historians have a hard time getting Mormon culture and history right. Also, your video made it sound like the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was involved in the politics of Nevada and they really weren't or at least at the level which is suggested here. Individual Mormons make their own decisions. That's like saying just because a person is Catholic that everything they do is sanctioned by the Pope.
I’ve lived in several large cities but I’ve been in Las Vegas for 30 years now and I think this is where I will stay ! This article doesn’t even begin to touch on the WEIRD of this town! It’s a place that either grows on you or you can’t wait to leave AND that has NOTHING to do with the gambling!
😂 I want to kiss you!!!!!!! 😂😂😂 I have a funny story about that lol. So I'm a HUGE south park fan like know every episode, have every episode and can pretty much tell you which season an episode is from. Lol yeah I'm a dork. Anyway, my hubby and I were outside smoking cigarettes at night and they walked over to us. Now I had a massive dislike towards Mormons then because my family on my mom side was almost all Mormon. I'm talking polygamy, the whole nine yards. So I was kinda bring rude. Anyway they asked what I knew about Mormons and I just blurted out "the south park episode, dum dum dum dum dum" immediately they cracked up ha ha. Since then I still talk to them. One even went to my wedding and was my bridesmaid. They didn't convert me but they still bring up that story lol.
A video on the following: History of New Orlands and why it always floods, Los Angeles and its history with Hollywood, the oldest city in the United State City St. Augustine, Florida, the city of Honolulu, Hawaii how people live there being 2,558 mi from the continental United States, Anchorage, Alaska how do they survive winter and the history of the Alaska highway.
Born Alaskan here. We have two seasons: mosquitos, and snow. Snow. We live and breathe the stuff. 6 feet on a Monday? Better be quick, or you'll be late for work. Moose on the street? Just stop. It's his road now. Did a bear take your trashcan? Oh shit, not again! Heater broke during a blizzard? Better call the morgue.
Same, just moved from there. When I tell people Vegas isn't just the strip they are so fascinated lol. I've had some people ask if I was a hooker, if we all lived in casinos then was amazed we had homes, asked if I knew Celine dion and other weird ones but it's 11:30pm right now and I'm way passed my bedtime lol. Definitely miss home though
Moe Greene invented Las Vegas. This was a great man, a man of vision and guts. And there isn't even a plaque, or a signpost or a statue of him in that town!
Las Vegas means “the meadow” in Spanish... yeah... no meadows there now. Edit: Hughes eventually moved out of the Desert Inn... he had taken over the entire top floor, secretly installed an express elevator from outside to that floor (that was problematic during the demolition of that resort as it wasn’t on the blueprints!), and apparently never opened any of the drapes as the window facing side of them were bleached white by the sun.
Joseph Smith passed away at the feet of a mob in Carthage Illinois, on the other side of the state over 100 miles away please amend this video its inacuarate.
I always wondered why Utah had such a large Mormon population, and I did not know about Vegas. Interesting how they ended up there.... so much for religious freedom
My friends in our neighborhood back in the late 70s and 80s were Mormon but I had no idea how there were so many more here until I got older. The Mormon Temple on the east side of town is huge.
2:50 that fort is dope because after you spend a while exploring it in the hot sun, you can go across the street to th 7/11 and get slurpees. 10/10 true vegas experience
I definitely know this spot lol. I lived there for 31 years. Definitely love a slurpee on a hot summer day. Where we moved to has no 7-11s and it sucks. I honestly didn't even realize it until I read your comment! Now I'm sad 😥 we now live in a town of 3000 people! HUGE culture shock for me lol
Later on he had an idea to build a city out of a desert stop-over for GI's on the way to the West Coast. That kid's name was Moe Greene, and the city he invented was Las Vegas. This was a great man, a man of vision and guts. And there isn't even a plaque, or a signpost or a statue of him in that town!
