More Love for the Vegas Club
August 6th, 2012 at 4:56:31 PM
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"Should I go downtown?
It's a good day trip, even if the cab ride will run you 20 bucks or so each way. If you do go, stop in the Vegas Club and admire the 2006-07 San Antonio Spurs NBA Championship T-shirt and pennant hanging up for no reason whatsoever. Then go around the corner and look at the group of baseballs autographed by obscure players from the '50s. That is my personal choice for the most depressing spot in all of Vegas — in between those two totally unrelated, terrifyingly cheap shrines to random sports things from the past.
Don't pick on downtown.
I love downtown! The Plaza is great. El Cortez is great. Main Street Station is great. The Las Vegas Club? Not so much. This is the same casino where my friend was playing electronic blackjack and a guy cautioned him against hitting with 14 against a 10 because the game of blackjack had changed over the past few years and a lot of eights and nines had been coming out of the deck. Where the second floor has been sealed off for the entire year I've been around. Where dozens of penny slots sit unplugged and blank like un-flight-worthy aircraft, waiting to be stripped for parts. It's gross."
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8229377/knowing-time-leave-sin-city
It's a good day trip, even if the cab ride will run you 20 bucks or so each way. If you do go, stop in the Vegas Club and admire the 2006-07 San Antonio Spurs NBA Championship T-shirt and pennant hanging up for no reason whatsoever. Then go around the corner and look at the group of baseballs autographed by obscure players from the '50s. That is my personal choice for the most depressing spot in all of Vegas — in between those two totally unrelated, terrifyingly cheap shrines to random sports things from the past.
Don't pick on downtown.
I love downtown! The Plaza is great. El Cortez is great. Main Street Station is great. The Las Vegas Club? Not so much. This is the same casino where my friend was playing electronic blackjack and a guy cautioned him against hitting with 14 against a 10 because the game of blackjack had changed over the past few years and a lot of eights and nines had been coming out of the deck. Where the second floor has been sealed off for the entire year I've been around. Where dozens of penny slots sit unplugged and blank like un-flight-worthy aircraft, waiting to be stripped for parts. It's gross."
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8229377/knowing-time-leave-sin-city
"Dice, verily, are armed with goads and driving-hooks, deceiving and tormenting, causing grievous woe." -Rig Veda 10.34.4
August 6th, 2012 at 9:14:29 PM
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LOL Ya, gotta watch those pesky 8s or 9s, small cards are so 90s. Have you been lately? The whole rear part of the casino is completely empty. When I wandered back there looking for better VP, some young girls were coming in from Ogden. They asked me "....uh what casino is this?"
100% risk of ruin
August 6th, 2012 at 9:28:27 PM
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Not only are there penny slots 2-3 deep along that back corridor, the old bingo room is jam packed full of old VP and there are some outside of it too. I keep trying to snoop about what is going on there but nobody seems to know. The hotel is only open on weekends and there have been some weekends it does not open at all.
