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Bally's Las Vegas is a hotel and casino
located in Las Vegas, Nevada on the Las Vegas Strip. The hotel
has 2,814 rooms that are 450 square feet (42 m²) or larger.
The hotel has over 175,000 square feet of banquet and meeting
space. It also has a 67,000 square foot (6,000 m²) casino.
Bally's is host to the long running production
show Jubilee!.
One of the signature features of this hotel
is the neon lighting wrapped around the covered moving sidewalk
that brings guests from Las Vegas Boulevard to the entrance
of the casino.
The hotel has a Las Vegas Monorail station
at the rear of the property.
History
The property opened July 5, 1973 as the
MGM Grand with 2,084 rooms, the largest hotel in the world
at that time. Kirk Kerkorian was the owner. The hotel had
a movie theme when it opened.
It suffered a fire in the casino that traveled
up into the hotel, killing 87 guests on November 21, 1980,
it was rebuilt in only eight months.
The hotel was later sold in 1985 to Bally
Entertainment Corporation and the name changed to Bally's.
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