The Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas – an icon for tourists traveling to the Strip – opened on Dec. 26, 1946, despite the fact that it wasn’t yet complete. Mobster Bugsy Siegel and his partners ...

28-story casino hotel on 30 acre site featuring ... streams and waterfalls - On Strip. The Flamingo is the oldest of the veteran hotels in Vegas, built by Bugsy Siegel in the 1940s.