Golden Nugget Las Vegas

Contact Information

Address:
Golden Nugget Hotel
129 E. Fremont St.
Las Vegas, NV 89101

Website: www.goldennugget.com

Phone : 800-846-5336 General Information: 702-385-7111

The Golden Nugget Las Vegas is a casino-hotel located in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA on the Fremont Street Experience. The property is owned and operated by Landry’s Restaurants.

It is the largest casino in the downtown area, with a total of 1,907 rooms. It has also maintained AAA’s four diamond rating consecutively for the past thirty years.

Steve Wynn bought a stake in it, which he increased so that, in 1973, he became the majority shareholder, and the youngest casino owner in Las Vegas. It was the foundation for Wynn’s rise to prominence in the casino industry.

History
The Golden Nugget was originally built in 1946, making it one of the oldest casinos in the city. It was owned by the Golden Nugget Companies, which became Mirage Resorts in 1989.

The property was sold to Poster Financial Group in 2004. When Poster Financial assumed control of the Golden Nugget, they began to upgrade the gambling operation by installing new cashless slot machines and by increasing the maximum bet available at table games to $15,000. Their story became the basis for The Casino, a television series on Fox that premiered on June 14, 2004.

On February 4, 2005, Houston, Texas-based Landry’s Restaurants, Inc. announced its intent to purchase the property. The sale closed on September 27, 2005.

The world’s largest gold nugget on display, the Hand of Faith, is displayed in the Golden Nugget lobby. Weighing 27.2 kilograms and 46 centimeters in length, the Hand of Faith was found near the Golden Triangle in Australia, and put on display at the casino in 1981 amid a number of other gold nuggets.

The casino’s large hotel sign at its entrance off Fremont and Casino Center was removed in 1984 when the casino underwent renovations. The old sign presently sits at the YESCO signage yard.

In popular culture

* The Casino, a Fox television series is based on the story of the Golden Nugget’s acquisition by Poster Financial Group.

* The Golden Nugget Casino serves as the main theme to two Nintendo games: Golden Nugget Casino DS for the Nintendo DS and the Game Boy Advance.

* The Golden Nugget features prominently as a background in the Balrog stage in the Street Fighter II video game series.

* The cowboy that used to stand atop the gift-shop sign has been featured in the movie Rock-A-Doodle and U2’s “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” video.

* In the episode of the animated television series The Flintstones titled “The Rock Vegas Caper”, the hotel known as The Golden Cactus is a reference to The Golden Nugget.

* The Golden Nugget features prominently in the poker mockumentary The Grand.