 It wasn't always this way. Las Vegas, at least in the words of one Las Vegas historian, quote, was the place old performers go to die. Bloomberg News entertainment reporter Chris Palmieri writes all about the Las Vegas residency. His story in the latest issue of Bloomberg Businessweek magazine, also on the Bloomberg Terminal and at Bloomberg.com slash Businessweek. So to understand how it got to be this way, we've got to go back in history from the days of Elvis and another surprising artist.