Las Vegas died when the MBA corporate types took over.
At the same time the MBA corporate types took over and started price gouging everyone, the proliferation of gambling around the country, especially sports gambling makes Las Vegas less appealing.
Here in Florida, we have a few casinos, a good number of poker rooms, and sports gambling, why pay Las Vegas prices when you can gamble all you want and never leave the state. Plus, we have all the major cruise lines leaving ports in Florida, all of them offer Las Vegas casino gambling, all of which makes Las Vegas far less desirable.
It was better when the mob ran it.
Las Vegas died when the MBA corporate types took over.
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Got there in 79, left in 20. Saw the town start coming apart when the corps/mba’s started coming in. Hasn’t stopped yet.