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The Las Vegas Strip is a stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard in Clark County, Nevada, situated in the unincorporated towns of Paradise and Winchester, immediately south of the Las Vegas city limits. It is about 4.2 miles long, running roughly between Sahara Avenue at the north and the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign at the south.
The El Rancho Vegas, which opened on the 3rd of April 1941 with 63 bungalow hotel rooms, was the first full-service casino-resort on what is now the Strip. The Pair-o-Dice Club, built in 1931, was the first casino on the highway, but it was not a full resort.
Los Angeles police officer and businessman Guy McAfee named the Strip after the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, his hometown. Las Vegas Boulevard was previously known as Highway 91, the Arrowhead Highway, or the Los Angeles Highway.
In 1950, Las Vegas Mayor Ernie Cragin attempted to annex the Strip to expand the city's tax base, but casino executives led by Gus Greenbaum of the Flamingo successfully lobbied Clark County commissioners to create two unincorporated towns, Paradise and Winchester, keeping the Strip outside city limits. The Nevada Supreme Court later struck down a 1975 law that would have folded the Strip into Las Vegas.
Baccarat's share of gaming revenue on the Strip rose from 13 percent in 1985 to 37 percent by 2019, while blackjack's revenue share fell from 50 percent to 11 percent over the same period. Big Strip casinos collectively generated more than $6 billion in gaming revenues in 2019, representing about 26 percent of their total revenues.
On the 1st of October 2017, a gunman inside the Mandalay Bay hotel opened fire on a nearby outdoor concert, killing 60 people and himself. It remains the deadliest mass shooting in United States history.