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Showing posts with label Wynn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wynn. Show all posts
Saturday, February 1, 2020
PCP - 360 Vintage Vegas: Steve Wynn
Sunday, November 24, 2019
E-320: Allegedly Redacted
Random Vegas
The Western Village attraction at the Last Frontier was less of a replica of a real old western town and more of a movie set, complete with life-size papier-Mache figures on display throughout the streets. (The Strip – Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream)
Twitpic of the week
I love when Vegas creates temporary structures to accommodate the wackiness that is this great city. Don’t have a facility that can house a championship boxing match? No worries, we’ll just build one in the backyard. This picture, shared by @classiclasvegas, captures a time before Mirage had its million-dollar villas or its convention center, both of which share the space the arena occupies here. We also get reminded of a time before Caesars Forum shops existed. It also shows us when the Mirage and Caesars had parking lots that rivaled shopping malls in scope. In fact, virtually all those parking spaces have been replaced with buildings for retail, dining, conventions and parking garages, a far more efficient use of land on the strip that has sold for as high as 33 million an acre. (FYI, that was the Frontier that sold for 1.2 billion for 36 acres.)
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Saturday, June 16, 2018
E-270: The Howard Hughes of Podcasting
Random Vegas
When it first opened, one of the selling points for the Desert Inn was individual thermostats in all guest rooms (Vital Vegas)
Twitpic of the week
Thanks to the unbreakable rules I've made up in my head to govern the "Twitpic of the week" selection process, I've known who this week's winner was going to be for about two weeks. Even thought I could break one of said rules and almost non one would know, considering I'm the only one who knows what they are, I'm sure it comes as no surprise that doing such a thing would be unthinkable. Let me explain. The 1st "Twitpic of the week" after a 360 Vegas Vacation is actually the "Twitpic of the TRIP". A photo, usually taken by me, that best encapsulates the spirit of that 360 Vegas Vacation & inspired a monolog. After the trip report, all candidates nominated since the last "Twitpic of the WEEK" was awarded are reviewed. That means a photo has to stand out for 2-3 times longer than usual to earn, and in some cases retain, the right to the designation. In some cases, this only reaffirms the reason a picture is eventually awarded the honor. This week's winner was one that was able to pretty easily hold off potential usurpers. Captured in the air, on approach to McCarran, official 360 Vegas Vacation photographer @Japluto09's photo of the strip over the wing of a plane creates a coastal beach illusion causing those familiar with the desert landscape surrounding the strip to do a double take to comprehend what they're seeing. As if the view wasn't ethereal enough, placing the strip in the distance over said wing inspires correlations to stories of afterlife ascension. This shot embodies peace and tranquility amidst chaos and disorder, wrapped in mathematical probability. An equation that most certainly always equals an epic adventure on the horizon.
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Saturday, May 19, 2018
E-268: Shots...In My Mouth
Random Vegas
Dunes jacket shop owner and property fanboy Jerry Pearman was given the honor of making the final throw of the dice before the property closed in 1993. Betting $5 on the pass line, he rolled a 7 and won.
Twitpic of the week
The Silverbird signage alone may have secured the win for this week's "Twitpic of the week", once again brought to you by @TonyIlliawho has recently been dominating the designation. I know it was a short lived incarnation for the property, originally known as the Thunderbird, but something about all the silver just captures my imagination. I'm curious how hot that sign got with the desert sun shinning down on it, and what sort of crazy reflections that thing created, and was the real concept behind the signage an overly elaborate way to torture and kill James Bond. The world may never know. What we do know is that only two things in this picture still exist today on the Las Vegas strip, Caesars Palace and Circus Circus, interestingly enough, both themed resorts from the mind of Jay Sarno. And only one of them still looks like it did in 1981, that's the Lucky the Clown marquee at Circus Circus. Caesars Palace is shown here in the dead center of the photo, still sporting the Sarno block exterior it would keep for almost another 20 year before being changed to what we know it as today. Everything else, has literally been raised to ground and is currently undeveloped land. But don't lament its passing too much because what the picture doesn't show you, is that in 1981, the strip located south of Caesars looked very similar to what this part of the strip looks like today. Paris, Planet Hollywood, Cosmopolitan, City Center, Monte Carlo, NYNY, MGM Grand and Luxor were little more than undeveloped land. I'm sure there's a metaphor in their somewhere but I'm too busy enjoying the view to wax philosophical.
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360VV6 Housekeeping
Wynn Picasso Damaged
Cosmopolitan New Restaurants Announced
Sugarfina Opens
CNF Reminder
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360VV6 Housekeeping
Wynn Picasso Damaged
Cosmopolitan New Restaurants Announced
Sugarfina Opens
CNF Reminder
Saturday, January 20, 2018
E-255: Mic Drops...Plural
Random Vegas
Uber and Lyft drivers logged 11,465 pick-ups at McCarran International on Monday, setting a single-day record that was largely driven by conventioneers headed to CES (Consumer Electronics Show). The previous record of 10,413 was set during 2017s CES (RJ)
Twitpic of the week
Loving Las Vegas is like being in the Matrix and knowing it. When I look at this week's winner, brought to you by @ParisVegas, I feel almost nothing. I know it's beautiful, I acknowledge that. I know its a great representation of an "Only In Vegas" experience and I know I love it; but after more than a decade of exposure, the awe factor has reduced itself to a matter of fact. Maybe that's not a bad thing. Anyone fortunate enough to have successfully found a life partner can tell you, that passionate fire that was ignited when you found one another fades with time, reduced to a steady, warm glow that takes work and vigilance to keep burning. Even though this picture doesn't elicit the same feelings it did when I first saw it doesn't mean my affinity for it has reduced in anyway. On the contrary, it has transcended the fleeting passion that time eventually ravages and replaced it with an everlasting adoration, an extension of ones self so a part of you that its difficult to remember what life was like before it was discovered and you realized prior to that moment, you were incomplete.
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