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Audio clip from interview with Glenn Tredwell, March 4, 2016 and April 14, 2016

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2016-03-04
2016-04-14

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In this clip, Glenn Tredwell discusses how he came to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1975.

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    Glenn Tredwell oral history interviews, 2016 March 04 and 2016 April 14. OH-02626. [Audio recording]. Oral History Research Center, Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d12j6bw02

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    So how did you eventually get to Vegas in '75? Okay, we're getting to that. I knew you're wondering. I'm anxious now. I love this. This is great. So I went to University of Miami. I attended all the classes, graduated without a degree because the tuition wasn't paid. So my dad says, "We'd like you to come to Vegas and look around." Your dad was living here? No, he was living in Miami. I said, "Okay." So Caesars had a jet called Caesars Chariot. It was a DC 9 converted and it probably carried thirty people tops. So Claire, my wife, came with me for a long weekend at Caesars on Caesars Chariot and stayed in the hotel. I said to Dad, "I love it." What hotel did you stay in? Caesars. Oh, you stayed at Caesars. Oh, yes. Why would I stay anywhere else? Yes, you're on Caesars Chariot. That's a silly question, okay. I said, "Dad, people are walking around with not one loaf of bread"?remember my grandfather taught me; he said, "If you want to eat, you've got to work"?not only one loaf of bread, but two under their arms. This is a great place. We're coming." Claire was my girlfriend then and she says, "I'm not moving unless you marry me." So that's when we got married and we spent our honeymoon driving to Vegas. You're so romantic. Yes. And we stayed an extra night in New Orleans. It was fun. We lived at Caesars for six weeks, lived there in the hotel. What kind of room were you in? We had a nice suite. We lived at Caesars for six weeks. A guy comes up to me and says, "First you have to go to dealer's school." I said, "Okay." "Go downtown to Fremont Street and Las Vegas Boulevard. Jackie Gaughan owns the dealer school." So I show up. I didn't have any money to pay for it. This fellow says?his name was Peters?says, "You need money to pay for it." I said, "I don't have any money. They just told me to come here. I do what I'm told." And the they that told you to go there was implied? Caesars. Caesars told you, okay. Someone at Caesars. The fellow at Caesars, his name was Larry ?Label? Snow. We called him Label. Larry Snow was in Cuba and ran the casino at the Hotel National. Well, Larry's running the baccarat pit at Caesars and he's the one that told me to go. So I pick up the phone. I said, "Peters," whatever his name is, I said, "Could I use your phone? I need to call the hotel." "They told me I can't stay here; I need the money to pay for the school." Larry says, "Put him on the phone." I put him on the phone. "This is Label over at Caesars." "Well, we need the money." They sent a security guard down with the money to pay for the school. Excellent. So I said, "Well, here's your money. Now, you don't believe me?" I went to dealer?s school. We lived at Caesars. Caesars gave me a rack of chips and a blackjack table in the room set up to practice blackjack. I have the same chips. They were Caesars with the logo and everything stamped on it, all the different colors of all the denominations, the black, green, white, red, blue, everything. I'm practicing pitching cards in the room. Claire says, "I'm getting hungry; let's go for lunch at the Cafe Roma." So how are you going to go to lunch and go to the Bacchanal and go to the Palace Court or go anywhere and you can't afford the tips, but it's all comped? Think of that, Barbara. That's amazing. Yes. So I said to my uncle's secretary, "I've got to work this out because how am I going to...I can't eat." So they funded me a credit card. It was a house card. It looked like a credit card. It said Caesars Palace on it. So I had an account. So I just gave them a card and signed the tip and everything on the card at the hotel. Mind you, six weeks and that's a long time. After the first week I'm figuring out, how can I eat here? Going to McDonalds was a treat because that you could afford. You didn't have to tip. Or Jackie Gaughan's people, Label says, "Here, I got these for you." I said, "What's that, Label?" He says, "Fun books. When you go to the dealer?s school you can eat breakfast at the El Cortez." And the tip was attached. Do you remember that?