"The very songs that Sinatra and Dean sang, the very images they projected, inspired lavish squandering among the countless men who would be them . . . and rendered them gods in the eyes of the teased-hair lobster slurping Bimbo sapiens they sought to impress . . . " ~ Nick Tosches, Dino

The photographs used in this exhibit are all from the Sands Hotel Collection, UNLV Libraries Special Collections and may not be reproduced without permission. The collection was donated to the library in 1980 by the Sands Hotel through the office of Al Guzman, then Director of Publicity and Advertising. The collection consists of the files of Al Freeman, Director of Advertising and Promotion for the Sands Hotel from 1952 until his death in 1972. The Sands Hotel was imploded Tuesday morning at 2 am, November 26, 1996. The original exhibit was designed and written by Peter Michel, Director of Special Collections, UNLV Libraries.