The end is near!

[learning to count]

The entrance to The Plaza. Photo by Christine H. Wetzel.

Nevada News
Four downtown casinos to be sold

Longtime Las Vegas casino owner Jackie Gaughan has agreed to sell four of his downtown gaming properties for $82 million to a start-up company, sources familiar with the deal said Sunday.

This per the las veags journal today 12/09/02

 

[Rob McGarvey]

...and I saw a new Las Vegas, for the old Las Vegas had passed away...

Relax, that will never happen as long as there is a United States of America.

 

[learning to count]

No problemo I meant for old man Gaughan

I miss the vegas I first experienced in the early 90's. There were still old vegas fixtures around, the sands, alladin, dunes, etc. You could still feel the rat pack and win some coins on the slots.

Jackie is one of the last of the old time gamblers. He will be gone too. I met him once this summer. He was waddling through the el cortez and I shook hands with him by the Texas Holdem table next to the dollar wheel of fortunes. I had just won two silver strike coins from the quarter slot machine and I showed him. He smiled and said keep it it will be worth something some day. He shook my hand. Nice guy. I just wish the Filipino mama san pit buzzard was as nice at the BJ pit.

 

[Rob McGarvey]

Re: No problemo I meant for old man Gaughan

Memories are worth their weight in gold aren't they? ;> "And now the purple dust of twilight time steals across the meadows of my heart..." ahhhh Nat King Cole singing Stardust......

The meaning of that coin is priceless to you. Today we are making Stardust for the next generation of trackers, hackers, and deck whackers. The bad boys of the black and white era seem so simple to us in our technicolor world. Take a look at the remake of Oceans 11 and see what I mean. You can't recreate their style, but you can breathe new life into their dreams in a 2K3 kinda way.

Gaughan are the good old days ;>

 

[zengrifter]

Re: No problemo I meant for old man Gaughan

"Jackie is one of the last of the old time gamblers."
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Lat of the old time mob-fronting, money laundering guys - his Western Casino is now managed by son Michael's Coast Resorts - the Western is cleaned up and dealing ALL 1Ds, worth a look. zg