E-202: Air Hockey Fight

Random Vegas

La Bayou, then the Northern Club, is the site of the 1^st place to receive a gaming license after the ban was lifted in Nevada.  Since then, it’s been the Monte Carlo Club and Coin Castle before it’s current incarnation as La Bayou (frontdesktip.com)

Twitpic of the week

It’s the icon of icons. Las Vegas wouldn’t exist as we know it today without her. She is as important to the evolution as the Flamingo, more so even.  The Flamingo helped invent the strip. The Mirage saved and reinvented it after years of being the 2^nd biggest gaming market in the US behind Atlantic City.  It took something that transcended the imagination to change the game and become a monument to everything Vegas should be and a volcano in the desert to make a Mirage real. Thanks to @hollywood31 for sharing another thought provoking, monolog inspiring photo of the Mirage as she looks from the strip at night.

News

Vegas Gets a Hockey Team

Esports expansion @Downtown Grand

Atlantic City Casino Strike

E-201: Celebrating Mediocrity

Random Vegas

Casino Royale’s casino is 17,500 square feet, the smallest in the Vegas market that this show covers which is to say the strip; Fremont and places walk able from either.  The largest is MGM Grand at 171,000 square feet.  To compare, that means you could fit 9.77 Casino Royale’s into an MGM Grand (show research)

Twitpic of the week

It’s simultaneously inspiring and depressing, beautiful and hard to look at; it’s the view outside your plane window as it slowly takes you away from the Vegas strip.  A view that can bring grown men to tears regardless of how much abuse they just suffered at the cities hands.  From this view, brought to you by @bobsmith55, you can’t see, or remember, the 6:5 blackjack, the switched out booze, the resort fees and franchise charges.  For some reason, all you see, or can think of, is opportunity fading away, right outside that tiny window and then the longing to return begins.

News

Monte Carlo becomes Park MGM

Station Buys Palms

State of MGM

Pay to Park Details

Las Vegas Sands Arena

Plaza Pool

SLS room deal 

Riviera Implosion details

Bally's Grand Bazaar

Giordano’s Chicago deep dish pizza & Redneck Riviera

Eggslut @Cosmopolitan menu