Married at the Mob Museum
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Married at the Mob Museum
LAS VEGAS -- Las Vegas opened a new museum devoted to organized crime and the mobsters that shaped city history. The Mob Museum's grand opening Tuesday in an old federal courthouse building blended in some romance for Valentine's Day.
One of the old courtrooms has been preserved for the new museum, and it was used for a mass wedding presided by former Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman, who once served as a mob defense attorney.
“This is a little bit like a mafia induction ceremony that we are going to go through right now,” Goodman said. “Because once you say I do, you can’t get out of this relationship.”
Seven couples were selected from the more than 10,000 people who entered a drawing to wed or renew their vows on the Mob Museum’s opening day.
The museum opened its doors on the anniversary of the 1929 Saint Valentine's Day Massacre, when Al Capone arranged for several members of a rival gang to be gunned down in Chicago. The brick wall that served as the backdrop of that shooting is on display in the museum.
