Where does thr Strip end?

While surfing the website of one of the Wi'z friends, I came across an interesting relevant item.

From http://www.cocktaildoll.com/didyouknow.htm:

Quote: Cocktail Doll

Drinking on the street is legal.
According to Steve Easley, who teaches an alcohol awareness class, it is legal to have an open container on the strip corridor and downtown. The strip corridor is on Las Vegas Blvd. between Russell Rd. and Sahara Ave.

Although I'm not a drinker, getting hammered in public seems to be one of a tourist's requisite goals when visiting The Strip. Therefore, the places where that's legal, seems to be an acceptable definition of The Strip's boundaries.

Note: Cocktail Doll is not known for keeping her website up-to-date. The open container zone still seems like a good definition, but may have changed since Sahara closed.

Quote: DJTeddyBear

Although I'm not a drinker, getting hammered in public seems to be one of a tourist's requisite goals when visiting The Strip. Therefore, the places where that's legal, seems to be an acceptable definition of The Strip's boundaries.

That's actually a good, solid, practical definition. But the Strip still ends at the Wynncore, IMO :)

The strips ends where reality and back to work begins.

Well, since Nareed is the original poster, and agrees with my suggestion, we need to find out the official boundries of the open container zone - and see if they jive with what we're thinking.

FYI: Open containers are legal for pedestrians. It's still illegal to have an open container in a car - and that includes the back of a limo.

Quote: DJTeddyBear

Well, since Nareed is the original poster, and agrees with my suggestion, we need to find out the official boundries of the open container zone - and see if they jive with what we're thinking.

I don't suppose the ordinance allowing open alcohol containers, or the exception to the ordinance forbidding them, has changed. Government isn't swift.

I also can't see people drinking while ambling past the wastelands of what used to be the Strip. But then I don't drink much or often. Still, on my first trip while waiting for the belalgio fountains to get going, I had a frozen lemonade with vodka at an open-air bar at Caesars. As shwotime neared, I quite casually walked over to the Bellagio drink in hand. I dind't think anythign of it til after the fountains show, and by then I'd finished it.

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FYI: Open containers are legal for pedestrians. It's still illegal to have an open container in a car - and that includes the back of a limo.

Drunk driving is a serious matter. But I don't see why you can't drink in the back of a limo if the limo company doesn't mind. It's not like limo passengers will need to drive it.

Its a matter of marketing. Public opinion versus various ordinances and landlord desired public impressions. Even people who play at Casino Royale only say they are playing on The Strip. Someone enroute to O'Sheas says he is going "out".

Quote: Nareed

I don't see why you can't drink in the back of a limo if the limo company doesn't mind. It's not like limo passengers will need to drive it.

I think the theory is that by allowing passengers in any motorized vehicle to drink makes it too easy for the driver to be drinking and then pass the drink to a passenger if they are pulled over.

I don't understand the line of thinking with not allowing open containers in a limo. I am getting married in a couple months and we have a fully stocked Limo ordered. Now this is in Illinois and not Nevada, but this would seem to be a decent chunk of business for Limo companies.

Quote: Gabes22

I don't understand the line of thinking with not allowing open containers in a limo.

Neither do I. It seems like such a natural.

Quote: Gabes22

I am getting married in a couple months and we have a fully stocked Limo ordered.

I'd think that they can't legally do that, unless they have a liquor license.

Sure, they can let you stock it yourself, but to provide the booze? Nope.


But then there's still the open container issue. Maybe if they don't care about that, they don't care about the license either.

Quote: Nareed

Fair enough.
But my question then would be: how does the whole of Vegas, including casinos way off Strip, like the Red Rock, M, South Point, Rampart, etc etc, as well as Downtown and Boulder Strip, does in comparison to Singapore? Why is the Strip as a division of the gaming commission relevant by itself?

Some companies report on "tourism zones" which they define as (1)strip, (2)downtown, (3)Mesquite, and (4) Laughlin where the last two are distant from the urban area. The rest of the zones (1)Boulder Strip & Henderson, (2) North Las Vegas, (3) Rest of Clark County are called "locals casinos". All seven of those zones are "Clark County".

Latest numbers for State of Nevada is $10.5 billion, and Clark County is $9.0 billion (which is much greater than Singapore). Clark County has almost 200 casinos, while Singapore has 2.

Commercial gaming in the USA is $34.60 billion as of 2010 down from a peak of $37.52 in 2007. Other sorts of gaming (Indian casinos, bingo, charity, state lotteries, add up about double what the commercial gaming industry makes). Although I have never seen it calculated, I think government gets more than half of the total income from legalized gambling in the USA. I am basing this on my knowledge of tax rates, and what the government makes on lotteries.

Nevada still has by far the biggest share of gaming in the USA. The reason is historical, plus the very low tax rate.

Macau should easily surpass the entire USA commercial gaming total this year.

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The unexpected explosion in revenue in Macau and Singapore means that one or several other Asian countries will introduce casinos. Singapore is probably limited by it's number of hotel rooms, and is not inclined to build thousands more. Vietnam, Phillippines, Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia are all possibilities.