It opened as the first casino in Las Vegas. But when telephone lines were installed in Las Vegas it was Miller’s hotel that got the first telephone, and with it the first phone number in town - “Ring 1.” Miller opened the 10-room hotel on the corner of Main and Fremont streets in 1906, then called the Hotel Nevada, telephones were still a bit of a rarity. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) wasn’t the first hotel built in Las Vegas, as some have claimed, but the Golden Gate is a hotel full of firsts.
Exterior of the Golden now celebrating its 116th year of operations on Thursday, Jan.
