This former Las Vegas Weekly columnist wrote:

One Saturday six years ago, I attended the estate sale at the home of Bob Maheu, the recently deceased, longtime public face of Howard Hughes, as well as a man with ties to the FBI, CIA and an attempted assassination on Fidel Castro. I was hunting for cool Old Vegas memorabilia, which I found in the form of a signed Noël Coward at Las Vegas vinyl record and a Howard Hughes Invitational golf ball hiding in Maheu’s golf bag.

And then it got mysterious, and the Savoy was involved. Not much is known about the place, it seems. I know, I know - someone tore down something to build something else in Vegas, and sentimentality did not enter into the project at any stage? Seems hard to believe, but it happened.