The town will never be the same. After the Tangiers, the big corporations took it all over. Today it looks like Disneyland. And while the kids play cardboard pirates, Mommy and Daddy drop the house payments and Junior's college money on the poker slots. In the old days, dealers knew your name, what you drank, what you played. Today, it's like checkin' into an airport. And if you order room service, you're lucky if you get it by Thursday. Today, it's all gone. You get a whale show up with four million in a suitcase, and some twenty-five-year-old hotel school kid is gonna want his Social Security Number. After the Teamsters got knocked out of the box, the corporations tore down practically every one of the old casinos. And where did the money come from to rebuild the pyramids? Junk bonds. But in the end, I wound up right back where I started. I could still pick winners, and I could still make money for all kinds of people back home. And why mess up a good thing? (Robert De Niro Casino-1995)
I gotta admit I´m not the biggest fan of Las Vegas. The scale of the place is pretty awesome, but it remains a city, without most of the things that great cities have. It does get a bit waring when the for the 13th time in ten minutes, a middle aged hispanic woman thrusts yet more prositute calling cards in your face.
Having said all that, it was good to spend a couple of days here- the motel was twenty pounds a night-with two double beds and HBO!
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| i finally made it to the west wing |
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| You probably get this a lot. This isn't the real Caesar's Palace is it? |
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| mgm lion |
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| authentic down to the last detail |
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| trump is here! |
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| very subtle |
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