Jackie Gaughan and Mel Exber purchased the Las Vegas Club in 1962, and added a sports theme.

Tamares sold the Las Vegas Club two years later to Derek and Greg Stevens, who owned two other downtown casinos.

The Stevens closed the Las Vegas Club casino on August 20, 2015, with plans to redevelop the resort through renovations and some demolition.

[31][39] J. Kell Houssels owned the Las Vegas Club with Horden and A. F. Gilmore,[25][40] who had spent approximately $1,400 on building improvements prior to the opening.

[41] Before Houssel's involvement, the casino had been operating as the Smoke House,[42] owned by Gilmore and located at 23 Fremont Street.

[31][33][24][48] At its new location, the Las Vegas Club occupied the bottom floor of the Overland Hotel, while the latter continued operations under its own name for some time.

A year and a half later, a group had plans to lease the casino from Houssels and its three other owners: Joe and Vic Hall, and Bernard Vandersteen.

The leasing group consisted of gaming executives Jackie Gaughan, Mel Exber and Larry Hezzelwood.

[56] Mel Exber served as the president of the Las Vegas Club, and his brother and son would also work there as executives.

[66] A Hickok Belt, won by Maury Wills in 1962, was loaned to Exber in 1971 for display in the Las Vegas Club.

[68][69][70] In 1975, Gaughan and Exber announced plans for a $4 million expansion, including a 208-room tower to be built behind the Las Vegas Club.

[72] The Las Vegas Club's facade was inspired by Ebbets Field, where Exber's favorite team, the Brooklyn Dodgers, used to play.

[74] Visiting baseball teams would play at nearby Cashman Field and would frequently stay at the Las Vegas Club.

[63] In 1989, the promotional music video for Daite, was filmed at the Las Vegas Club by Japanese singer/composer Chisato Moritaka.

It included an 18,000 sq ft (1,700 m2) casino area designed to resemble a baseball stadium, with murals depicting fans.

The Dugout coffee shop was expanded and two new restaurants were added, including The Upper Deck, featuring four rooms each themed around a different sport.

The expansion was partially influenced by the success of the Fremont Street Experience, located in front of the Las Vegas Club.

[83][84] At the end of the year, Gaughan agreed to sell the Las Vegas Club and three other downtown casinos – including the Plaza – to Barrick Gaming.

[88][89][90] In June 2005, Tamares bought out Barrick's 23-percent ownership in the four downtown casinos, including the Las Vegas Club.

In May 2007, Navegante announced that it would end its relationship with Tamares within a year, stating that the latter company would be better off finding an operator that could also invest in its properties.

The game was played in a temporary room, as Tamares planned to relocate its bingo operations to the Plaza following renovations there.

[101] Tamares was considering various possibilities for the Las Vegas Club, although any work on the resort would not take place until the full completion of renovations at the Plaza.

[104] Later that year, magician The Amazing Johnathan opened SCREAMont Experiment, a Halloween attraction at the Las Vegas Club.

[105][106] In February 2013, The Amazing Johnathan announced that he was hired to give the Las Vegas Club a complete redesign,[107] although these plans never materialized.

The 13,810 sq ft (1,283 m2) pharmacy would be located on the Las Vegas Club's east side and would sell alcohol.

[114][115] The Stevens were among opponents of the pharmacy,[116] which was part of a larger vision that Tamares had for redeveloping the Las Vegas Club.

[114] The Stevens had talked with Tamares five years earlier about purchasing the Las Vegas Club, although the discussions eventually ended, before resuming again in July 2015 amid the pharmacy opposition.

[110][125] The extra property provided new possibilities for a larger version of the Stevens' upcoming resort, and the brothers took additional time to determine specifics about the new project.

[124][126] To retain the property's gaming license, 16 slot machines in the Las Vegas Club were temporarily opened to the public for eight hours on June 27, 2017.

[127][128] Demolition of small buildings, such as Mermaids, was underway in August 2017, before moving on to the Las Vegas Club hotel towers by October.