Johnson was president, and Clark County’s population was about 211,000 (about 100,000 people fewer than Henderson nowadays) when Michael Gaughan first became an owner of the El Cortez in 1965.įew, if any, have held a gaming license in Nevada for longer than Gaughan. (Ellen Schmidt/Las Vegas Review-Journal) cost an average of 30 cents per gallon, Lyndon B.
