*Orange* you glad?
Posted on 10/09/2024 7:11:32 AM PDT by Red Badger
true dat.
I liked the $5 shrimp cocktails.
We stayed in the Tropicana a couple of times in the ‘80s, in Vegas for work, believe it or not. Pretty nice but dated even then. Oh well, see ya...
I went a while back when the NFR moved the finals from OKC to Vegas. I hated it and will never go back to the rodeo or the town. The rodeo metastasized itself into a pop culture freak show because of the move. It was awesome in OKC and in the middle of the country, so accessible to more people. OKC even offered to build a new arena, but they moved anyway to sh_tville.
I worked at a molybdenum mine about 90 miles west of Las Vegas around 1974. It was a short job, only a couple weeks or so. Back then, it was the “Old” mob-era Las Vegas, with none of the modern glitz that Steve Wynn started in the 80s. Since then, I’ve only flown through the Las Vegas airport and not set foot downtown. I prefer to remember the place the way it was.
I remember taking a girl I met to a floor show. As the maître d’ was taking us to our seats, this worldly young man casually slipped him a $1 bill. He snuck a glance at his hand and he immediately u-turned back to the nosebleed section.
Yeah me too. Maybe it was the way the Dunes was oriented in regards to Treasure Island. What confused me even more is the Mirage and Ceasars are between the two properties. Looking at a map perhaps if the shots went past the front of them it might work. I guess it did when it happened.
Yes, and the $0.99 breakfast buffets and the $1 blackjack tables.
This 20-minute Stan Freberg skit illustrates "classic Las Vegas style" done to the extreme. Unlike today's woke and angry "comedians" like Steve Colbert, who are anything but funny, Freberg knew how to generate laughter. You will find this especially funny if you are familiar with the news events and popular culture of the mid-1950s.
Incident at Los Varoces--Stan Freberg (1957)
elevation and windage. LOL!
*Orange* you glad?
Yeah. Don’t bet on it being the last “mob building”
The mob was *squeezed* out of the city quite a while ago. An ex-coworker spoke of relatives who were, uh, in the biz in Vegas, one was deceased, the other was her cousin. I web searched and found remnants of a former whorehouse that he ran, along with pictures of the greasy little reptile himself.
Prime rib dinners for two dollars, cheep rooms and drinks. Safety ensured by mobsters who protected their clients with an iron fist.
They were run out of town by cooperate mobsters backed by the federal government. Now the food and everything else is of low standards and way over priced. You are only safe if you stay in the casino.
Step outside and you are on your own.
I usually go there once a year or so for trade shows. I hate the place. They hate me. I’ve never spent a penny at the tables despite spending a couple months of my life there.
So were Chicago and NYC...
During the 1990s and until 9/11, my wife and I made 4 trips a year to Las Vegas...
It took the moslems to end those trips...
Fortunately, for us, many casinos have been established all around the eastern U.S.
Just an hour ago, we returned from a trip (35 min each way) to the MGM at National Harbor...
Maybe not the best, but beats taking a chance on terrorism, DEI, or Boeing junk...
I'm going with the mafia
Yeah but the general food was subpar, the drinks watered down, stale beer in tiny orange juice glasses, etc.
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