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El Rey Club (Searchlight, NV)
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Searchlight--Nevada
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Willie Martello
Quick Fact - Desert Getaway
1961 This ad for the El Rey Club invited people to escape one sunny desert town (Palm Springs, California) for another (Searchlight, Nevada), as the enticement ran in the former’s newspaper, The Desert Sun. Owner Willie Martello began…
