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Long-running Vegas topless show to close (49 years "Les Folies Bergere" run at Tropicana)
Mercury news ^ | 1/15/09 | AP

Posted on 01/15/2009 12:19:19 PM PST by NormsRevenge

LAS VEGAS — The topless revue "Les Folies Bergere" is hanging up its feathers after 49 years at the Tropicana hotel-casino.

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The closing will leave Bally's "Jubilee!" as the last full-scale showgirl revue left on the Las Vegas Strip.

(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: tropicana; vegas
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To: NormsRevenge

Sagging attendance?


21 posted on 01/15/2009 12:46:23 PM PST by Doctor Raoul (Somewhere In Kenya, A Village Is Missing It's Idiot)
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To: NormsRevenge

22 posted on 01/15/2009 12:52:33 PM PST by Vaquero ( "an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Vaquero

“Sammy Davis Jr ... perrrrrsonal friend of mine”


23 posted on 01/15/2009 12:54:56 PM PST by bassmaner (Hey commies: I am a white male, and I am guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.)
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To: poobear

No clue what to say.

I can tell you that the gaming property profits are being slaughtered. The take is way down, whales from Asia are off... nothing is working for them right now.


24 posted on 01/15/2009 12:59:46 PM PST by NVDave
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To: NormsRevenge
Despite the tawdriness of the show, I think it has too much class for the average Joe Schmo who has grown up with easy access to pornography.
25 posted on 01/15/2009 1:01:25 PM PST by stripes1776 ("That if gold rust, what shall iron do?" --Chaucer)
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To: NormsRevenge

After 49 years how good could those topless ladies look??


26 posted on 01/15/2009 1:23:49 PM PST by brytlea (You can fool enough of the people enough of the time.)
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To: Vaquero

Hyman Roth is going to be upset.


27 posted on 01/15/2009 2:00:15 PM PST by BBell
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To: Mr. K
I am willing to offer career counseling and temporary placement assistance to any displaced employees.

I've met a few Vegas showgirls, you might want to rethink that offer. Nice people but not exactly spring chickens

28 posted on 01/15/2009 3:11:38 PM PST by MilspecRob (Most people don't act stupid, they really are.)
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I was in Vegas last year and it’s Darminism to the max. You can just see what’s gonna die and the Tropicana looked like “dead man walking” You can only live off the trademark name for so long.


29 posted on 01/15/2009 4:16:41 PM PST by ak267
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To: NVDave
Great time for Wynn to open Encore.
30 posted on 01/16/2009 7:30:59 AM PST by poobear (a 2-iron is best for killing Cottonmouths, Copperheads, and Water Moccasins...)
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