Lake Tahoe · Film History · Organized Crime
Stories from the Dark Side of the Lake
Dispatches from the intersection of cinema history, Sicilian legend, and the criminal underworld that shaped Lake Tahoe.
An Offer You Can’t Refuse at 6700 – 7000 Feet: How The Godfather Changed Cinema — and Why Lake Tahoe Is the Perfect Place to Understand It
Before Francis Ford Coppola’s masterpiece was ever projected on a screen, it faced bomb threats, mafia enforcers, and a Hollywood too timid to make it. The story of how The Godfather was born is as dramatic as the film
From Sicily to the Sierra Nevada: The True History of the Mafia’s Grip on Lake Tahoe
Long before Nevada legalized gambling, before Harrah’s and Harvey’s lit up the South Shore, before Frank Sinatra held court on the Cal Neva’s stage — the Mafia had already made Lake Tahoe its own. This is the story The
