Stanley Mallin
Sarno’s partner in Caesars and Circus Circus
Mallin helped develop Caesars Palace and Circus Circus, then participated in the transactions that transferred them to new owners and operators.
A partnership before Las Vegas
Stanley Mallin and Jay Sarno met at the University of Missouri and later worked in construction. Their hotel partnership began with the Atlanta Cabana in 1958, followed by other Cabana properties. In Las Vegas they developed Caesars Palace, opened in 1966, and Circus Circus, opened in 1968. Mallin belongs beside Sarno in the story of those two resort concepts. [1]
From developers to sellers
The partners sold Caesars Palace to Lum’s in 1969. Circus Circus was leased to William Bennett and William Pennington in 1974 and subsequently sold. UNLV preserves a small Stanley Mallin collection containing the 1974 agreement and lease, providing a documentary route into that transfer beyond the better-known opening celebrations. [1] [2]
Key dates
People in the same story
Jay Sarno
His hotel-development partner. [1]
Read the profileBill Bennett
Circus Circus’s incoming operating partner. [2]
Read the profileWilliam N. Pennington
Co-lessee in the 1974 Circus Circus agreement. [2]
Read the profileIn the archive
1 matching entries in the saved collection.
Desert Inn Country Club family album, Las Vegas (Nev.), November 07, 1981
Photograph from Stanley Mallin Papers. Catalog date: November 7, 1981.
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Sources for this profile and starting points for further research. Access notes mark links we could not open directly during the October 3–4, 2026 checks. Historical accounts describe their own period; they do not necessarily describe current operations.
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Stanley Mallin
Read October 14, 2026. An older biography drawing on K. J. Evans’s September 12, 1999 Review-Journal profile of Jay Sarno; present-tense descriptions are not used as current-status evidence.
Publisher-page access is unconfirmed. Access check: Oct 4, 2026. Search for this source (search results)
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Stanley Mallin Papers, 1974–1981 (MS-00698)
Catalog read October 14, 2026. Identifies the March 5, 1974 Circus Circus agreement and lease; the underlying contract was not independently read. Research access and reproduction rights are separate.