Showing posts with label Westward Ho. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Westward Ho. Show all posts

Saturday, February 1, 2020

E-324: Peaches for You



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The story is legendary.  An FBI plane surveilling Tony Spilatro and friends circled so long that the plane ran out of gas and they had to make an emergency landing on the golf course, crashing into the water hazard.  This week, new owners, looking to better celebrate the history of the course, purchased that plane and reinstalled it into the water hazard permanently (8newsnow.com w/ an assist by Ted Newkirk of Access Vegas)
Twitpic of the week

Favorite part about this picture is the Stardust Easter egg, in my favorite portion of the sign’s animation, the neon outline surrounding each letter, with a black background, clearly distinguishable.  I love LED but nothing is more mesmerizing to watch than animated neon and flashing light bulbs.  That said, I hope some editing was done to this picture to highlight the neon because the pedestrians are really dark at the bottom of the photo.  While I’m not afraid of the dark, I do have to say, in this picture, Westward Ho looks like one of the #1 location to get yourself mugged on the strip; thanks for the heads up @_GrandPaD Between that and bad table beats, no wonder Vegas adopted the free attraction concept.
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Saturday, November 25, 2017

E-250: Kevin Spacey's Little Darlings



Random Vegas
While in the developmental stage, the Dunes project was originally named the Araby

Twitpic of the week



Westward Ho is a property that I never had the opportunity to experience.  According to our parallel timelines, the property was open in 2004 when I first basked in the glory that is the strip.  However this is one of the few times I question the validity of documented facts.  During that initial trip, I made a concerted effort to visit every casino on the entire Las Vegas Strip and the surrounding area, going so far as to walk all the way down to the Hard Rock and back.  I find it highly unlikely that I would have somehow accidentally walked right past it on my way to Slots O Fun and Circus Circus after checking out the Stardust.  Regardless, intelligence won't let me truly believe that facts are wrong so I'm forced to come to another logical conclusion, the property must have been in such a state of disrepair that it didn't appear to be open. If that is truly the case, then I celebrate the fact that it lives in my mind in the idealic state I imagine it to be in, as glorious as those exterior umbrella lights, elegantly showcased this week by @NeonMuseum

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Las Vegas Stadium Breaks Ground
LVCVA Real Estate mismanagement 2.0
Moulin Rouge Resurrection...part 17
MGM Resorts Vegas Reinvestment
Neonopolis Announces Big Plans