Sands Hotel and Casino opened in Las Vegas in 1952.
 In the early 1990s, Adelson built the Sands Expo, a 1-million-square-foot (93,000 m2) convention centre
 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

