Sands Hotel and Casino started as a casino with 200 rooms.
 Freedman had initially intended naming the hotel "Holiday Inn" after the film of the same name starring Bing Crosby, but after noticing that his socks became so full of sand decided to name it Sands
The hotel was established in 1952 by Mack Kufferman, who bought the LaRue Restaurant which had opened a year earlier

