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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.
- University of California, Los Angeles (did not graduate)
- June 30, 1978 (aged 66), Rochester, Minnesota, U.S.
- William Fisk Harrah, September 2, 1911, South Pasadena, California, U.S.
- Hailey Cemetery, Hailey, Idaho, U.S.
William Fisk Harrah (* 2. September 1911 in South Pasadena, Kalifornien; † 30. Juni 1978 in Rochester, Minnesota) war ein US-amerikanischer Unternehmer und Gründer der Harrah’s Entertainment Inc. (heute Caesars Entertainment Corp.
William Harrah parlayed a Reno bingo parlor into a company, Harrah's Entertainment, Inc., consisting of Nevada casinos, hotels, and nightclubs that brought in nearly $200 million a year before his death in 1978. Harrah's later opened a casino-hotel in Atlantic City and expanded rapidly in the 1990s, as casino gambling spread to half the nation ...
2. Juli 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...
In Reno in the 1930s, William Harrah found a congenial climate for his business talents, establishing bingo parlors, bars, and finally a gambling casino.
19. Nov. 2018 · William Fisk Harrah came into the gambling business in 1933. Having left UCLA before completing an engineering degree, he bought a bingo operation his father had been running in Venice Beach.
Villa Harrah is the legendary Lake Tahoe estate built in 1963 by Harrah’s Lake Tahoe Hotel and Casino founder William F. Harrah. According to the locals, Bill Harrah had the absolute choice where to build on the lake since he was one of the first to do so.
