The Montecito Hotel & Casino was featured on the popular TV show Las Vegas â now featured on Cable TV reruns. The Montecito Hotel doesn't really exist â at least not on the Las Vegas Strip in this universe! The hotel is purely fictional, although we wish it wasn't â it looks like a FUN place to stay...and visit :)
The number she picked was 1435 and it belonged to San Juan native Eustaquio Correa. Thus, Correa became the first Puerto Rican to be drafted into the Armed Forces of the United States. It is estimated that 236,000 Puerto Ricans in the island registered for the World War I draft and that 18,000 served in the war.
- Chuck Cooper: first African Amer â¦ ican to be drafted by an NBA team-Nat Clifton: first African American to sign a contract and make the roster with an NBA team-Earl Lloyd: first African American to play in an NBA game. Earl Lloyd was first black NBA player, Chuck Cooper was the first black player to be drafted, and Nat Clifton was the first black player to sign a contract with an NBA t â¦ eam.