DEATHS : Vegas Pioneer Moe Dalitz, 89, Dies
Morris (Moe) Dalitz, a leading Las Vegas businessman and gaming pioneer, died early today at his home here. He was 89 and had been in ill health for some time.
Shortly after coming to Las Vegas in 1949, Dalitz acquired an ownership interest in the Desert Inn and Stardust hotels. In the early 1950s he entered a partnership to form Paradise Development Co., which built Sunrise Hospital, the Boulevard Mall, the Las Vegas Country Club, the city’s convention center and many buildings at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.
Dalitz was listed in a 1978 California attorney general’s report on organized crime but was never accused of a crime.
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