I went to Las Vegas just once though I live in Phoenix and the flight is not long.
Never wanted to go but went for my nieces wedding, which she had there.
Hated it from the minute I saw it from the air. So phony looking. Artificial. Everything new and glitzy is not my like.
Terribly expensive. But here’s something.
We stayed on the 14th floor of a hotel, very empty. Only one other room on our floor was occupied and it was two doors down from us.
The halls were dark and quiet and my mother came with us, occupying the suite on the other side of us, same side of the hall as us.
In the middle of the night I awoke to hear a woman being beaten, badly. Thrown against the wall, screaming and crying. You could practically hear the punches landing.
I was so groggy I heard it in a fog and fell asleep during it all. In the morning I thought I dreamed it.
But in the morning my mother said, ‘did you hear that woman being beaten last night’?! It was then I even remembered hearing it.
We had to go to a prior breakfast before the wedding and then the wedding itself and the plane was scheduled but when I got back I phoned the hotel desk to tell them about it.
The desk clerk got the manager who asked me where I stayed and then gave me a kind of a gruff, ‘you better drop this’ kind of answer, saying nobody else heard anything like that and gave me the impression he was accusing me of being a liar and not to bring this up again.
Yeah. I don’t have any love for Vegas.
But I do feel sorry for Bugsy Siegel. They’re ruining his creation and I would’ve loved to see how HE would’ve run it.
The mafia did run it better after his demise and I know many that went and loved it back in the day. I knew a trucker who said he went for the breakfast’s alone. Steak and eggs and I think he said $1.75 and it was gooood.
Steak and eggs and I think he said $1.75 and it was gooood.
Reminds me of the Cosby routine about the price of an egg in Las Vegas.
“A dollar thirty-five?!?!?!?!....All I know is, that egg better have an act!”
It was definitely a safe place when the Mob ran things.
They didn’t put up with any BS.............