[dfwgator]

I always think of the closing scene of “Casino”

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.

[Mariner]

Damn, I hate Las Vegas.

It’s an entire metropolis full of broken people.

[eldoradude]

The old days for me were the early '80s. Had an affair with an early '60s Hollywood blonde icon more than twice my age but still smoking hot. At the time I was a Marine at the stumps and drove over when I had libo. Met her in one of the old casinos at 2 in the morning when she walked up and started talking to me like we'd been friends forever. One hell of a ride. Traded Christmas cards for years after it was over.

Went back in '98 and didn't recognize the place. People were like an extension of LA, no thanks.

2.5 billion... laundering book value. ;)