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William Fisk Harrah (September 2, 1911 – June 30, 1978) was an American businessman and the founder of Harrah's Hotel and Casinos, now part of Caesars Entertainment . Early years and education. Harrah was born in South Pasadena, California, the son of attorney and politician John Harrah.
2 juil. 1978 · RENO, July 1 (UPI)—William F. Harrah, who built a multimillion‐dollar gambling empire by never forgetting the slot machine players, died yesterday after surgery at St. Mary's Hospital in...
William F. Harrah collected approximately 1,450 automobiles, which he stored inside warehouses in Sparks, Nevada. It was the world's largest collection of historic automobiles, and was open to the public. When Harrah died in 1978, Holiday Inn acquired his hotel-casino company and the automobile collection.
The William F. Harrah College of Hospitality (formerly known as the William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration) offers graduate and undergraduate degrees in hospitality management at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV).
This oral history contains Harrah's recollections of his childhood and youth in California, his early business ventures there, and the years of growth in Reno and Tahoe. It also reveals the consuming love for the automobiles that built William Harrah's distinguished collection.
4 mai 2021 · Part I: Who was William Harrah? The Harrah’s Automobile Collection reflected the passion, and the fortune, of one man: William Fisk Harrah. Born in South Pasadena, California, in 1911, Bill Harrah had to drop out of UCLA during the Depression, worked briefly in his family’s small-time entertainment businesses, then took over his ...
3 janv. 2021 · A look back at the gaming empire created by Bill Harrah on the 100th anniversary of his birth.
