After a few months into the couple’s renowned television show, a performance at Harrah’s sold out. For example, Sonny and Cher played the Sahara – now the Horizon – to only 18 people. He recalled the evolving world of the gaming and entertainment industry.
He’s certainly come to know his way around the place in the last three-plus decades. His first shows included Debbie Reynolds. When asked to come to work here, he admitted to not knowing where Lake Tahoe is. Zaskoda started out as a stage hand, leaving in a Chevelle filled with belongings from Texas where he grew up with a degree in theater design and experience from the Houston Music Theater.
The sheepish Zaskoda married Yvonne, a former Harrah’s chorus dancer he fixed the binoculars on in 1968. He said Jim Nabors was hurt when he wasn’t invited to Zaskoda’s wedding almost 40 years ago. But Tahoe’s a lot different than most places because we get this kind of entertainment and see these people,” he said. “Sammy,” as he refers to him, pulled up to Zaskoda’s house for a party in a limousine, prompting questions from neighbors.
