Directors. 1  Jon Barwise 1983â1985. 2  John Perry 1985â1986, 1993â1999. 3  Thomas Wasow 1986â1987, 2006â2007. 4  John Etchemendy 1990â1993. 5  David Israel c. 1999-2000. 6  Byron Reeves c. 2001â2005. 7  Stanley Peters 2008â2013. 8  Chris Potts 2013âpresent.
On December Jack Cassidy died in a fire at his West Hollywood apartment. He was 49 years old. Cassidy had fallen asleep while smoking and the cigarette had set fire to the couch. The fire then spread throughout the apartment.
Entratter replaced Freedman as the president of the Sands Hotel following his death from heart surgery on January 20, 1958. Freedman's last wife Sadie subsequently lived in a suite in the Belmont Park wing into the mid 1960s until her death.