Category: Blog
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Casino food for employees
All caisnos required that employees stayed on property. This meant that the had to feed us. I worked at 4 different casinos. El Cortez had vile food. As dealer you only had 15 minutes to eat. They served oxtails in cream, teriyaki, gravy, bbq, and breaded. Only the Asian employees ate it. Most of us…
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Cabbie perks in the 90s
Cab drivers always ate for 1/2 price. Restaurants did this so they would have cabs for their patrons nearby. SO we had a group 6 core members and 6 sometimes members that would hit different restaurants during the slow time of night. Italian, Chinese, Caasino coffee shops and buffets. We ate a different place every…
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Kaboom
Vegas in the 90’s saw the creation of the Themed Casino They needed a lot of space for the new resorts. So they bought up old properties. Most places they would have used a company to tear it down Vegas did it one better. They imploded the old one. They packed the supports with dynamite…
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First things first
The craziest thing I ever saw in Vegas was in the first month I lived there. I was there before the mass influx of people. When I moved to town there were 200,000 in the valley. West of the Strip was ranchland. Tropicana, Flamingo, Desert Inn, and Sahra just feed into dirt roads in the…