To bradwww and Carlson: I don't have the details in front of me but I believe that Summa Corp. ended up buying the Desert Inn lease -- in other words, acquiring the buildings and land -- sometime after Hughes died in 1976. When I gather more detailed information on this, I will report on it here.
Thanks for the story. Always interested.
To bradwww and Carlson: I don't have the details in front of me but I believe that Summa Corp. ended up buying the Desert Inn lease -- in other words, acquiring the buildings and land -- sometime after Hughes died in 1976. When I gather more detailed information on this, I will report on it here.
you say he leased the desert inn - if so how can his heirs then sell it when they never owned it to begin with?