Posted on 12/22/2013 4:40:30 PM PST by RKBA Democrat
been to Atlantic City too...don't like as much...not sure why...
my best place really is Deadwood...small old casinos...you can walk just a few yards from casino to casino...you have that warm dry breeze in the summer and good music from live bands ..you just can't beat it for having a relaxing time...
I've always said the way to destroy the billion dollar indian casino tax dodge is to have govt casinos everywhere.....I see NYS is getting into the business more and more..
You know the country is in the toilet when the states have to offer gambling to those of little intelligence for the state’s survival.
I got the impression that the Hip Hop Crowd was taking over Vegas.
Nevada will always have it’s prostitutes to fall back on.
But wait Canada just took away all laws pertaining to prostitution.
I have been to Las Vegas and I have been to Atlantic City.
The attitudes are entirely. They treat you nice in Las Vegas, and they just want you to leave your money and get out in Atlantic City.
SFL
Both cities run and infested with demorats. Just like dirt city.
***As time wore on, Atlantic City and Las Vegas became the premier gambling spots in the country. ***
Let’s not forget HOT SPRINGS ARKANSAS! Illegal gambling everywhere till someone probably did not get their bribes and the gambling halls were closed down.
I’m givin 8 to 5 it will be Chicago.. :)
Really enjoyed Vegas in the 80s and 90s. Cheap drinks, food, and relatively easy to win $$ at the casinos. After 9/11, it really started to go downhill. It got much harder to win at the casinos, IMHO. I went to Vegas in 2012 and it was horrible. Food, even fast food, was very expensive. The hotels were still magnificent though—my favorite is the Bellagio. Overall, though, would agree its not worth it anymore.
Went to Atlantic City once a few years ago. Very depressing. The only people who seemed to be there were senior citizens.
In general, I find casinos very depressing places. Too many of the people there seem to have an air of desperation about them. Only in Vegas did they seem “fun”.
I think Internet gambling will be a disaster. Another way to suck $$ out of hapless people with no self control—which is most these daze.
AC is a filthy dump. Go a couple blocks in the wrong direction...
Las Vegas has 3 reality shows, Counting Cars, Pawn Stars, and American Restorations. The city is booming!
Never been to Vegas. Went to Atlantic City for a day back in ‘88. Everything looked glitzy, but in a cheap, superficial way. Little old bag ladies from New York playing the slots. Some asian guys at the crap tables giving some of our dollars back to the casino.
I bought some chips, played some slots, and in about 10 minutes they were gone. I recall wondering when the fun would start.
No desire to go back to a casino.
BS. The beach towns up and down the Jersey Shore have been popular destinations for my entire life. Nobody except gamblers go to Atlantic City because once off Pacific Ave. its a ghetto.
Demographics is destiny.
Unions
BTTT
Bingo! Anyone who has ever been involved with a trade show in Vegas knows how heavy-handed the union thugs are. You can't even sweep the carpet in your booth without a Big Labor goon poised to break your arms. Unionism is nothing but slavery.
Then if you run out of money, you got the Freemont Street Experience north of the strip where you can hang out all night drinking $4 beers, eating deep fried Twinkies and playing slots with real coins like in the old days. It's gloriously low-rent - in a good way if you can imagine that.
I personally don't see Las Vegas going belly-up any time soon. Atlantic City and some of the depressing Indian and state-run casinos - yes.
Vegas in the ‘90’s liked it also. Did some gambling must have won some cause came back with about what I left with and saw Siegfried and Roy and the Harrah’s car collection and had a good time over all. Don’t mention it to the wife, I didn’t.
Went to the Bahama’s, I would not recommend. Lousy service.
Go across the river to Indiana and gambled a little never saw so many blue haired women outside a nursing home.
Like to watch the horses but bet on the jockeys.
Don’t get a kick out of gambling, win or lose. I must not be normal. Mainly like to watch the people that do.
Merry Christmas!
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