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Posted on 08/07/2025 8:47:22 AM PDT by Red Badger
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My wife and I drove through on our honeymoon back in 1998. We were so tired we literally slept on the grass between the sidewalk and the side of a building while people walked by.
Then we got in the car, filled the tank, and left. There was nothing for us there.
illegals forcibly handing out pornos on every corner, no free drinks, charging an arm and a leg for everything, ghetto thugs and meth heads everywhere, salesmen and timeshare creeps everywhere, gee what’s not to like about vegas?
Such a shame what happened to it.
I do really like the movie, Casino. Even though it’s protagonist is an ignorant political hack in real life.
Get rid of the Saudi owners and bring back the mafia
It’s sad to read about this; I haven’t gone for a long time but reports from my family are very bad. In the mid to late 80’s, it was good cheap food and fun. Today, you can’t even blow a fart there without being charged something for it.
Yes, supposedly it is a true story...................
Good article. Just on principle, the resort fee thing makes me gnash my teeth. When I was there last year many hotels were charging $25 to have a refrigerator in the room
Vegas cares about the guy and his mistress who puts 150k in the cage. They no longer care about the ordinary person. This means in 20 years Vegas would be down to two or three casinos. The rest will be imploded and prepared for section 8 housing.
Wife and I had good times in Vegas.
Started going there in 1993.
The last time we went was 2009.
It had changed for the worse by then.
Look at the I-15 traffic from southern California; it’s no longer a 200-mile traffic jam Friday-Sunday. Primm has largely shut down, save one hotel and gas station.
That’s a big danger sign for Las Vegas.
Wait until Havana re-opens and casinos become legal in Hawaii.
Who wants the desert when you’ve got the beach?
I’m glad I got to see it before it went to Trash City. Was there in 1974, while in the Marines, stayed with relatives and rode my motorcycle all over.
Streets were clean, crime was low and everybody felt safe.............
The old Las Vegas is gone. Back in the day in Italian-American neighborhoods when a young man was starting to get in trouble there was not an uncommon solution. The boy was sent to Las Vegas to work with a relative or close friend to learn dicipline and the casino business. Personally knew two guys who had this happen and both did very well. They still lead non criminal productive lives with families of their own. That theme was explored in the Godfather movie and novel.
And any problems were rubbed-out, stuffed in a 55 gallon steel drum, and dropped to the bottom of Lake Mead!
“I do really like the movie, Casino.”
Well, duh-niro spoke the absolute truth at the very beginning of that movie......”we are here for one reason, to take your money”
I found this documentary very interesting and confirms casinos don’t want people to win big evrn if it’s done legally.
Inside the Edge: A Professional Blackjack Adventure
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3575954/
They can’t write about online gambling because that would give away that this decline isn’t temporary.
“But in the end, we f___ed it all up. It should have been so sweet too. But it turned out to be the last time that street guys like us were ever given anything that f___ing valuable again.”
That’s a fact, Jack!......................
In 1974 when I was there a couple times, it was a clean and an safe place.
Ironically, when the Mob ran it there was no street crime or very little. If a pick-pocket plied his trade there, he would be arrested, beat the hell out of him and dumped at the city limits. Message: Don’t come back.................
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