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“Would you explain this? I don’t know what you mean by Universal Voting. The national trend has been toward expanding the franchise — blacks, women, 18-year-olds — but does that have something to do with Las Vegas?”
Sure, before Universal Voting the mob ran everything there, and it was a safe place, for everyone (except rival mob families, of course). Similar to Zimbabwe...when voting was exclusionary, the country was safe and wealthy, for everyone, not no more.
Yes, here in west Michigan it is Chicago creep.
Agree have friends there
Trump is a good person to blame—he is blamed or all bad things from the death of Jesus to the Black Death plague. BUT, the real reason is the rip off prices. Time to go back to the things that worked in the past. Big shows, good cheap food and rooms and lots of gambling. My advise for Vegas: for what its worth.
1. High speed train from LA to Vegas—get people here fast.
2. Big named acts and shows—maybe plays from Broadway. Get Taylor Swift and more country stars.
3.Lower drinking age and gambling to 19. There money is good.
4. Bring in a fancy legal brothel, for all sexes with shows and good food and lots of sex. OR run high speed train to big brothels like the old chicken ranch to carry patrons, men and women and Gays to the girls.
5. Put is a good classic Burlesque Theater—the whole thing, strippers, baggy pants comedians, black-outs, and chorus girls. “If the shoe fits, take it off.”
6. Peta has banned circus acts—So bring in Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Baily. Lions, Tigers, Elephants, clowns trapeese artists high wire acts , magic acts—even a freak show.
7. Special Museum shows—but more like P.T. Barnum’s museum.
Subjects: “Proof Hitler escaped Berlin>” “Proof Life on Mars!” “The Haunted White House.” “Bigfoot, the whole shocking story.” “The museum of torture—least it happen again!”
8. A TV show centered in Vegas—Hawaii Five-O did a lot for Hawaiian tourism —a detective show with a Vegas focus could do well with public.
9. Fund the coning of a woolly Mammoth or other extinct animals. Exhibit them in a special zoo of the unknown. People would pay to see this.
10. Develop a unique Las Vegas fast food—a Vegas Burger that would be unique and tasty. Only in Las Vegas.
if rip-off prices are the big problem, then why is a low-rent casino the one that goes out of business?
Read some Mario Puzo, think about yesteryear and how fun Lost Wages used to be. Cheap flights, totel deals, sun, fun... heck I even saw great swing bands and beautiful show girls... it was a cool place... but a man had to know his limitations to navigate the landscape.
My guess is that it’s North Las Vegas — off the beaten path.
“Sure, before Universal Voting the mob ran everything there, and it was a safe place, for everyone (except rival mob families, of course). Similar to Zimbabwe...when voting was exclusionary, the country was safe and wealthy, for everyone, not no more.”
I still don’t understand. Women got the vote in 1920, before gambling was legalized in Nevada. Yes, there was a period of powerful mob influence in Vegas; and yes, over the years the mob was largely driven out — but I don’t see what either of these developments had to do with voting rules.
As for Zimbabwe, the country (back when it was Rhodesia) was not safe and wealthy for everyone. There was a white minority government. The whites, never more than 5% of the population, were not interested in wealth for everyone or in protecting a free market. They directed the economy to protect their position at the expense of the blacks. Now that everyone can vote, there’s more equality, although unfortunately it’s equality at a pretty low level. Still, I don’t think the blacks are any worse off than they were under the white minority regime.
Right. The only thing the mob stole in LV was the skim which hurt the tax take.
Sounds like you’re on the wrong forum.
What’s with the periodic “rag on LV” thread? It is America. Do what you want to do with your time and money. If you like the experience...go and have a great time. If you don’t like it...do something else.
Personally, I think the “cruising” scene is among the most ridiculous experiences available today. So...I don’t cruise.
Vegas is a total ripoff. Every single business is taking your money the minute you get there.
Excessive room, food, and other prices with costly add on fees you can’t contest make it a no go for many long term gamblers.
$18 beer in a can
$50-$60 a night resort fees, 20% mandatory tips, $25 pizza slices, it just goes on and one.
Yep. its totally ridiculous the fees and ways they make you feel NOT welcome.
They try to hint its the Canadian boycott, but the real reason, is the overall fees for everything and I mean everything in Vegas now.
You got to pay to park now. Such stupidity.
This is the line the bean counters pushed. The cheaper buffets were to get people into the casino to gamble and keep them there.
Now smarter gamblers, are leaving the casinos and eating elsewhere. $75 buffets are a joke. $18 beer, $25 pizza slices, how long do they think people will keep this up without moving on?
It ain’t a free room if you got to pay a $55 a day resort fee.
At least in MS, you get a free room, you don’t pay the resort fee either. The comps are going down in MS also, but we still got more than Vegas.
In Arkansas, you got to pay for the beer, even if gambling. WTF? I don’t drink, but if I did, I would never go there.
This is something Vegas seems to forget, you can gamble anywhere now, including online. Every gambler wants that one trip to Vegas, but now they never want to go back. Vegas just rips you off from the second you get there.
How wrong they were......those prices drive people away.
Vegas was a great place to visit over the years. However there is no arguing that it has become very expensive.
As they lose the gambling monopoly they have moved to entertainment and sports to attract customers. They still get a convention crowd but corporations have been cutting back on conventions and people aren’t attending other types of conventions as often as they once did.
“Sounds like you’re on the wrong forum.”
You might be right. Is there a forum where someone explains how ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment drove the mob out of Vegas? I would like to read the posts there.
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