Sands Hotel and Casino started as a casino with 200 employees.
=== The Rat Pack and racial policy ===Lansky and Costello brought the Sands to Frank Sinatra's attention, and he began staying at the hotel and gambling there during breaks from Hollywood, though some sources state that he was not a hardcore gambler
The hotel was established in 1952 by Mack Kufferman, who bought the LaRue Restaurant which had opened a year earlier

