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Name:Don The Beachcomber Las Vegas
Type:restaurant
Street:2535 Las Vegas Blvd S
City:Las Vegas
State:NV
Zip:89109
country:USA
Phone:
Status:defunct
Description:
The Don the Beachcomber location was built over the Convention center of the Sahara Hotel and Casino. A third floor was added to house the Restaurant and Bar and was scheduled to open on September 1, 1962. It was designed with a seating capacity of 300 for food and drinks. The restaurant lasted until somewhere between 1987 and 1990 (a year after Donn Beach's death). The site still stands today and the iconic arches are still recognizable as those from DTB Las Vegas. The Sahara closed recently and there are selling just about EVERYTHING and the future of the building is dim.
A woman named Ruth Maestas was the first hostess at Don the Beachcomber. An Accordianist named Sam Melchionne played for years at Sahara's 'Don The Beachcomber'
DTB at the Sahara was the place to be in the early 1960's, in the first week off January in 1964, Frank Sinatra hosted his mother a group of 21 guests for her birthday. It later housed at least one Mexican Restaurant and maybe eve nan Italian Restaurant.
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