Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino

 hotel, casino

3000 Paradise Road
Las Vegas, NV 89109
(702) 732-5111
www.westgatelasvegasresort.com/

The hotel, designed by architect Martin Stern, Jr., was built in 1969 by Kirk Kerkorian and opened as the International Hotel. When it opened, the International was the largest hotel in the world. Barbra Streisand was the opening-night performer, along with Peggy Lee performing afterwards in the hotel's lounge.

In 1969, right after Streisand's engagement, Elvis Presley performed for 58 consecutive sold out shows, breaking all Vegas attendance records, (130,157 paying, and ostensibly gambling customers in the period of one month), with stellar reviews coming from both critics, and the public. He broke his own attendance record in February 1970, and again in August of 1970, and August 1972. When playing Las Vegas, he lived in the penthouse suite,(room 3000) located on the 30th floor, until his last performance there in December 1976.

Liberace headlined in the showroom during the 1970's drawing sold-out crowds twice per night. When he signed his contract at the Hilton in 1972 he earned $300,000 per week, a record amount for individual entertainers in Las Vegas.

The International Hotel was sold to Hilton Hotels Corporation in 1970 and renamed the Las Vegas Hilton in 1971. It was again renamed LVH – Las Vegas Hotel & Casino on Jan 3, 2012 and then Westgate Las Vegas on July 1, 2014

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