VEGAS MYTHS BUSTED: The Sands Offered Floating Craps

It remains one of the most iconic photos ever taken of gambling in Las Vegas. And it’s fake news. “Customers at the Sands playing craps on a floating table in the pool,” reads the description for the photo in the UNLV Special Collections archive. “About 2,200 guests tried this in 1954.” Very few words in that statement are true. According to UNLV’s description, the information was transcribed from the original photo’s sleeve. This makes perfect sense if that’s how the photo was originally captioned when it was mailed out for newspaper wire services to run without fact-checking.