I feel like an old timer although I've only been going to Vegas for 23 years. I started before all the consolidation between the casinos. Caesars was separate from Harrah's back then.His original legacy is gone after Caesar’s sold off Harrah’s Reno. I even remember when they absorbed Harold’s Club and turned it into an attached Hampton Inn. Never went to the National Automobile Museum though. It all started in Reno after Bill Harrah got shut down trying to operate bingo games in Southern California.
Harrah’s had this small casino in Lake Tahoe called Bill’s. I learned how to play real blackjack there, where they had low minimums and no smoking. Was formerly a place called Barney’s and was bought by Harrah’s after Bill had passed on. Kind of a casual experience, and they didn’t provide any comps even though it was part of the chain.
Caesars is purposely plural, not possessive because it's a place to make everyone feel like a Caesar. The history is Caesars and Jay Sarno is very interesting story about the Mormons and the Teamsters and how they funded Caesars and early Vegas deveopment.