Throughout July, the company is observing its 40th anniversary, kicking it off Friday at 9 p.m., with a fireworks display at Palace Station. But 40 years ago this week, it was just a dream envisioned by Frank Fertitta Jr.
Today, Station Casinos is the acknowledged market leader of the locals casino industry with 21 venues and 12,000 employees. Simpson and several of his associates were arrested for robbery in 2007.Ī train locomotive that wasn’t anywhere close to Southern Nevada’s rail line.Ī boss so beloved that workers often spent their free time and holidays there to be around their friends and their extended work families. Jeff Scheid/Las Vegas Review-Journal Follow employees of Palace Station have seen it all in the 40 years the venerable locals casino has been open.Ī flood that turned the casino’s stairway entrances into waterfalls and the casino floor into a lake in the 1980s.Ī media circus swarming the place where O.J.
Long time Palace Station employees Mike Manning, left, currently a Santa Fe Station shift manager and worked for the company 39 years, Bernice Boykin, cashier and cage clerk, 37 years, Betty Brown, PBX, 24 years, Debbie Walsh, bingo agent, 38 years, gather for an interview on Tuesday, June 28, 2016.