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Don Laughlin
Don Laughlin | |
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Laughlin 2009'da | |
| Doğum | Donald Joseph Laughlin 4 Mayıs 1931(1931-05-04) Owatonna, Minnesota, ABD. |
| Ölüm | 22 Ekim 2023 (92 yaşında) Las Vegas, Nevada, ABD. |
| Meslek | Girişimci, iş adamı ve işletmeci |
| Tanınma nedeni | Riverside Sahil Oteli & Gazinosu sahibi |
| Evlilik | Betty Jones |
| Çocuk(lar) | 3 |
Donald J. "Don" Laughlin (4 Mayıs 1931 – 22 Ekim 2023), Amerikalı girişimci, iş adamı ve işletmeci.
Hayatı
[değiştir | kaynağı değiştir]Laughlin, 4 Mayıs 1931'de Owatonna, Minnesota'da doğdu.[1]
Las Vegas, Nevada'da 1950'li yıllarda "101 Kulüp" adlı gece kulübünün satın alarak işletmeye başlamış 1964'te ise mekanı devretmiştir. Ardından ise Riverside Sahil Oteli & Gazinosu'nu kurarak çalıştırmıştır. Hizmetleriyle Laughlin, Nevada'ya onun adı verildi.[2][3]
Özel yaşamı ve ölümü
[değiştir | kaynağı değiştir]Laughlin, 1953'ten 2022 yılındaki ölümüne kadar Betty L. Jones ile evli olup Üç çocuk sahibiydi. Laughlin, 22 Ekim 2023'te doğal nedenlerden La
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The principal was decidedly upset with young Don Laughlin.
"He said to get out of the gambling business or get out of high school. I couldn't see what one had to do with the other," said Laughlin. "But I could see that I was making more money than the principal, so I left school."
And that's how Laughlin happens to have an eighth-grade education and enough money to build a small city, which is named for him.
In less than 35 years Laughlin, and other gambling entrepreneurs following his lead, built the town of Laughlin from a bankrupt saloon and motel beside the Colorado River, to one of Nevada's most important tourist destinations, attracting 4.2 million visitors a year.
Laughlin was born in Owatonna, 50 miles from Minneapolis, and grew up on a farm seven miles from town. His father was a part-time trucker. "I went to a country school where all eight grades were in one room. I must have graduated from there about 1946, the only school I ever graduated from." He went to high school only a year, meanwhile building up a route of slot machines and punchboards. Then the principal c
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Don Laughlin, the real estate developer and resort owner who created the Southern Nevada river town about 100 miles south of Las Vegas that bears his name, has died.
Laughlin, born in 1931, died at 92 years old on Sunday, according to a Facebook post from Don Laughlin’s Riverside Resort Hotel & Casino. The post did not share his cause of death.
A 2016 Las Vegas Review-Journal story noted that Laughlin, then 85, continued to work 14-hour days at Don Laughlin’s Riverside Resort, the casino he opened in 1966 that started it all. Laughlin was celebrating the resort’s 50th anniversary at the time.
“When we came here there was a dirt road in here and you had to come in by way of the dam,” Laughlin recalled. “If it rained, you couldn’t get here.”
The town’s name, he remembered, came by way of the U.S. Postal Service, which in 1968 dubbed its operation at the resort “Laughlin substation,” eventually prompting the use of “Laughlin” to also describe the area around the resort.
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