New Type of Casino ?
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February 4th, 2015 at 11:21:13 AM
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A common theme from The Wizards travels in Central and South America is that casinos are often not the "Mega-Themed Big Box Resort" but are more like a local neighborhood business not much different in size or appearance than any other local business.
Now we can all argue about ultimate dreams. Actors are referred to as "hams" because they all want to play Hamlet. Comedians all want to play Radio City Music Hall or some Vaudeville venue that burned down eons ago. Country and Western singers want to play Grand Ole Opry. Gamblers of course have "Vegas" as their ultimate. Clearly a great deal of money went into sweeping up the sawdust, laying down carpets and getting rid of the peanuts from the Thirties and building mega buffets, mega lakes, pirate ships, Volcanoes and Venice, Italy.
Some casinos did not borrow much: The Korean owned casinos did everything from earnings, not loans, as did dear little old Aunt Dotty. Some casinos were lost to the bondholders such as The M that had just opened at a cost of Billion Dollars and got taken over for a Song, a Dance and a Ten Cent Cigar. Well, okay....I do tend to exaggerate a bit at times.
Vegas will always be whatever is in peoples minds when someone say Vegas.
However, just as not every actor gets rich playing hamlet, some actors do make very good money opening up Dinner Theaters.
Indian casinos often started out as mere Bingo Halls. Many such casinos are still relatively small and nowhere near the Mega Resorts of Vegas.
I wonder if these trends will create a new type of casino in the USA? A type of casino that is a mixture of South American neighborhood place and also part of the famous American invention: The Shopping Mall.
Many malls are bankrupt, others are endangered species. Some are converted to boarded up plywood, some are converted to Data Centers, some get converted to endless series of comic book vendors eking out about eighty dollars a month in profit.
Perhaps the Answer lies in "Bingo". Heck of alot of Bingo nationwide. Here in Florida all gentlemen who have fallen on hard times go to the Bingo games to meet the rich women who will support them In Vegas, Bingo varies from a plus one percent to a minus one percent game. Those Blue Haired women in Vegas do pretty well on the odd hours.
So this "New Type of Casino" for the USA will be a large shopping mall that investors can get for a song and the new Casino will be one that offers: After-School Care, Bingo, Billiards, Bridge, Chess, Checkers, Cooking lessons, Day Care, Darts, Dominoes, Parking, Pharmacy Services, Poker, Restaurants, Shopping Services, Senior Care. The actual casino will be an inner core of an Aunt Dotty's On Steroids.
Reaches out to the local community by providing services that bring in their customers, provide a great deal on non-gambling services as well as a great deal of non-gambling table games such as Dominoes and Bridge, offers blood pressure checking, offers parking just to get people into the casino.
A South American Casino transformed into a North American Shopping Mall Revitalization Program.
What say you?
Now we can all argue about ultimate dreams. Actors are referred to as "hams" because they all want to play Hamlet. Comedians all want to play Radio City Music Hall or some Vaudeville venue that burned down eons ago. Country and Western singers want to play Grand Ole Opry. Gamblers of course have "Vegas" as their ultimate. Clearly a great deal of money went into sweeping up the sawdust, laying down carpets and getting rid of the peanuts from the Thirties and building mega buffets, mega lakes, pirate ships, Volcanoes and Venice, Italy.
Some casinos did not borrow much: The Korean owned casinos did everything from earnings, not loans, as did dear little old Aunt Dotty. Some casinos were lost to the bondholders such as The M that had just opened at a cost of Billion Dollars and got taken over for a Song, a Dance and a Ten Cent Cigar. Well, okay....I do tend to exaggerate a bit at times.
Vegas will always be whatever is in peoples minds when someone say Vegas.
However, just as not every actor gets rich playing hamlet, some actors do make very good money opening up Dinner Theaters.
Indian casinos often started out as mere Bingo Halls. Many such casinos are still relatively small and nowhere near the Mega Resorts of Vegas.
I wonder if these trends will create a new type of casino in the USA? A type of casino that is a mixture of South American neighborhood place and also part of the famous American invention: The Shopping Mall.
Many malls are bankrupt, others are endangered species. Some are converted to boarded up plywood, some are converted to Data Centers, some get converted to endless series of comic book vendors eking out about eighty dollars a month in profit.
Perhaps the Answer lies in "Bingo". Heck of alot of Bingo nationwide. Here in Florida all gentlemen who have fallen on hard times go to the Bingo games to meet the rich women who will support them In Vegas, Bingo varies from a plus one percent to a minus one percent game. Those Blue Haired women in Vegas do pretty well on the odd hours.
So this "New Type of Casino" for the USA will be a large shopping mall that investors can get for a song and the new Casino will be one that offers: After-School Care, Bingo, Billiards, Bridge, Chess, Checkers, Cooking lessons, Day Care, Darts, Dominoes, Parking, Pharmacy Services, Poker, Restaurants, Shopping Services, Senior Care. The actual casino will be an inner core of an Aunt Dotty's On Steroids.
Reaches out to the local community by providing services that bring in their customers, provide a great deal on non-gambling services as well as a great deal of non-gambling table games such as Dominoes and Bridge, offers blood pressure checking, offers parking just to get people into the casino.
A South American Casino transformed into a North American Shopping Mall Revitalization Program.
What say you?
February 4th, 2015 at 12:27:47 PM
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Quote: FleaStiffHere in Florida all gentlemen who have fallen on hard times go to the Bingo games to meet the rich women who will support them In Vegas
gotta bookmark this in case I need to remember this trick LOL
the next time Dame Fortune toys with your heart, your soul and your wallet, raise your glass and praise her thus: “Thanks for nothing, you cold-hearted, evil, damnable, nefarious, low-life, malicious monster from Hell!” She is, after all, stone deaf. ... Arnold Snyder
February 4th, 2015 at 1:37:09 PM
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Quote: FleaStiff
Indian casinos often started out as mere Bingo Halls. Many such casinos are still relatively small and nowhere near the Mega Resorts of Vegas.
Probably true. But what I do know is that the biggest casinos in US are all Indian casinos. Winstar, Foxwoods, Mohegan Sun, etc. They are much bigger than the biggest Vegas casino.
winning streaks come and go, losing streak never ends.
February 4th, 2015 at 1:47:31 PM
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Please believe me that having a day care in a casino is just weird and strangely designed to enable the compulsives.
I don't have any particular objection to kids in a casino, so long as they know how to behave, and they're smoking, drinking, and gambling like everyone else. Of course, the first four-year-old who can't hold her liquor and starts getting belligerent and complaining that dealer must be cheating is going to ruin it for everyone.
I don't have any particular objection to kids in a casino, so long as they know how to behave, and they're smoking, drinking, and gambling like everyone else. Of course, the first four-year-old who can't hold her liquor and starts getting belligerent and complaining that dealer must be cheating is going to ruin it for everyone.
May the cards fall in your favor.
February 4th, 2015 at 1:49:30 PM
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Don't forget engaging hookersQuote: DieterPlease believe me that having a day care in a casino is just weird and strangely designed to enable the compulsives.
I don't have any particular objection to kids in a casino, so long as they know how to behave, and they're smoking, drinking, and gambling like everyone else. Of course, the first four-year-old who can't hold her liquor and starts getting belligerent and complaining that dealer must be cheating is going to ruin it for everyone.
♪♪Now you swear and kick and beg us That you're not a gamblin' man Then you find you're back in Vegas With a handle in your hand♪♪ Your black cards can make you money So you hide them when you're able In the land of casinos and money You must put them on the table♪♪ You go back Jack do it again roulette wheels turinin' 'round and 'round♪♪ You go back Jack do it again♪♪
