[3] While Moore and Houssels ran the hotel, the casino was leased by a group of managers from the Desert Inn, including Moe Dalitz.

[4] After several unsuccessful years, Joe Kelley took over management, and began successfully targeting local customers with forty-nine cent breakfast specials and other promotions.

[1] Showboat bowling leagues were organized in Los Angeles and Phoenix, offering winners free trips to Las Vegas for championship events.

The hotel was successful until the 1990s when it suffered the same fate as the downtown casinos, which were losing business to the new megaresorts on the Las Vegas Strip.

[12] Vestin agreed to sell the property for $21.6 million to MGI Group, owners of the Bighorn and Longhorn casinos, who planned to rebrand it as La Joya del Sol[13] and market it to Latino customers.

[13] Station Casinos was primarily interested in the site's grandfathered gaming license,[13] soon determining that the existing structures were not usable[5] and had construction quality problems.

This is because of a loophole in the law that allows a gaming license to be renewed so long as a casino is on the property and open to the public for at least eight hours every two years.