The Mob MuseumMy idea or Mayor Goodman’s?by Max Shapiro | Published: Dec 11, 2009 |
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A while back, Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman announced plans to build a $50 million “Mob Museum” (no, not the Hendon Mob) in the downtown area in order to give recognition and acknowledgment to all the mob guys who jump-started modern-day Sin City. (You got a problem with that?) He obviously got the idea from me, because way back in 1992, I wrote a column urging that Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel, the guy who started it all, should finally be given credit and honored. My suggestion was to erect a welcoming statue of Bugsy towering across the Strip, one leg on each side. It would be the size of the Colossus of Rhodes or the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. To give it more authenticity, the statue would be riddled with bullet holes. Bugsy would be extending one hand holding a pair of dice, and pointing a tommy gun with the ...
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