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Oct. 01, 2008
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Las Vegas Mob Musem gets a logo and a name

The first rule of the Mob Museum is you don’t talk about the Mob Museum.

Las Vegas officials unveiled a tongue-in-cheek marketing strategy today for the forthcoming museum dedicated to the history of organized crime and its influence on Southern Nevada’s development.


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    • Logos, fliers and other advertisements will play on the secretive nature of organized crime and the law enforcement efforts to bring it down, primarily by riffing on the federal government’s penchant for blacking out sections of public records.

    The museum’s logo, for example, features the words, “The Mob Museum” with the word “mob” almost totally obscured.

    City Council members also displayed shirts that said, “There is no such thing as a Mob museum nor have I ever been there.”

    The official name of the museum will be the Las Vegas Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, and it will be located in the historic post office building on Stewart Avenue next to Las Vegas City Hall.

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    steve wrote on October 02, 2008 01:36 PM: spelling.

    please, wake up, las vegas. the only thing the r-j cares about is selling ads. plain and simple. that's why you never heard ANYTHING about bill heard getting their GMAC yanked until AFTER they were closed. they didn't want to take a chance on losing their ad dollars.

    look, they got a MALL GUIDE on this website. umm...we have like 5 malls here...and they all have the same stores. do we need a MALL GUIDE?

    No, it's just so they can walk into some ad agency and say "we have a mall guide. advertise YOUR mall on it."


    joshua levi wrote on October 01, 2008 09:04 PM: Hey RJ dummies-how about we fire the idiot that said go ahead and "print" Learn how to spell-you republican "stay the course" rhetoric must be clouding you again!


    bob wrote on October 01, 2008 08:21 PM: Who CARES


    fricken_frack wrote on October 01, 2008 06:31 PM: no way we might be able to see this "leaked info"?

    I mean if yer gonna Rat it out, spill it!!


    Michael Green wrote on October 01, 2008 05:46 PM: I am one of the researchers for the museum. I do not know anything about financing. But I can provide this information:

    1. It will be much larger than the museum that was at the Tropicana. That is not a knock on that museum, which I liked. It's just that there is more space.

    2. The federal government got rid of the building. The city saved it. But the condition was that it had to be a museum or cultural center. The question then became, what kind of museum will attract people and does not already serve the area?

    3. The museum will not "celebrate" murderers and thugs. It is a history museum and will deal with their history, good and bad, lawbreakers and law enforcement (and sometimes the twain met in that regard).


    ronnie wrote on October 01, 2008 03:31 PM: That is really good to know that .


    sandra harris wrote on October 01, 2008 02:45 PM: Perfect location! right under their noses......neat! At lest they are orginized.We could use a few of those good ol boys around now. They knew how to "bail out" themselves.


    MURDER MUSEUM wrote on October 01, 2008 02:18 PM: Wow, a museum that celebrates murderers and thugs...
    What's next, the OJ bed and breakfast?!


    ET wrote on October 01, 2008 02:08 PM: Very controversial,Guido and company,don't need you throwing money down the toilet,please put it to better use, put the homeless in that old bldg.,they need it more than Guido.


    Dr Grammer wrote on October 01, 2008 01:48 PM: C'mon RJ Meusem?

    What is that?

    2nd rule of Mob Museum is you spell Museum correctly on the front page of the website...


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