The Last Remnants of the 'Mob Era' in Las Vegas

What is generally considered the "Mob Era" of Las Vegas ended in the mid-1980s with the death or imprisonment of many key players -- and a corporate culture emerging on the Strip and downtown.

However, it turns out that perhaps the biggest "La Cosa Nostra" name still out there was wetting his beak at a smaller property on Paradise at Flamingo.

In the years after the Continental first opened in 1975, perennial lounge performer Cook E. Jarr became a mainstay at this otherwise unremarkable off-Strip casino.

The Continental made it into the news a few years after it was generally thought that skimming in Las Vegas had been defeated, with the successful prosecution of midwestern crime bosses Frank Balestrieri, Joey "Doves" Aiuppa and others.