In their wake came new, massive resort properties that offered theme parks, musicals, high-tech casino gaming, and a dizzying array of shopping and dining. Once-iconic casinos that represented the 'old Vegas' began to enter terminal decline en masse including The Aladdin, The Hacienda, and The Silver Slipper. New casinos that had a focus on mega resort-style entertainment, rather than the 'dinner and a show' offerings of the old casinos. After the 1981 election of Nevada Senator Harry Reid, who had a mission to 'clean up' the city and transform it into a global entertainment destination, big Wall Street investors began arriving in town.
However, things began to change dramatically almost from the very outset of the 1980s.
