[guinnessjim]

Originally Posted by olecapt

Great one Jim...right on..and JFK I think ole southwest is mostly typical of the Vegas knockers...who do tend to be a bizarre bunch.

"Local Casins" role in neighborhoods is much more that of a shopping mall than of a neighborhood gathering place. They draw on large areas and provide restaurant and entertainment to the area. Some gamble most don't.

Sometimes the VP parlors serve as neighborhood gathering places. Though again the vast majority use them as restaurants and bars. Only a minority gamble.

thanks capt. i looked and sw1230 regularly posts in the austin, tx forum (by looked i mean quickly scanned his/her other posts). i'd be curious if they had ever been to LV, let alone NLV.

regardless, the poster's original comments make his/her social commentary re: "concern for one's fellowman" fairly hypocritical.

[jfkIII]

Originally Posted by olecapt

and JFK I think ole southwest is mostly typical of the Vegas knockers...who do tend to be a bizarre bunch.

You mean the Vegas knockers that one sees plastered on billboards and on top of cabs all over LV?

[olecapt]

Originally Posted by jfkIII

You mean the Vegas knockers that one sees plastered on billboards and on top of cabs all over LV?

Methinks you need to revierw the difference between anterior and posterior...you clearly have it wrong.

[guinnessjim]

Originally Posted by jfkIII

You mean the Vegas knockers that one sees plastered on billboards and on top of cabs all over LV?

lol.

well...some of those can be kinda bizarre, too

[jfkIII]

LOL...so true GJ!

[cjski21]

Originally Posted by southwest1230

http://www.americangaming.org/assets/images/hof/Steve_Wynn-SMALL.JPG (broken link)

Just one question..if the rest of the US, particularly the midwest and Northeast, is rusted out and jobless, where will folks get the money to spend in Vegas? Vegas has a sweet point per tourists, and that is middle america. The rich aren't that big on vegas, and only so much of them to go around. If you shut down the rest of the US, the strip will be just as shuttered as the factories and cities out east. My main point is that relying on ONE industry is not healthy for any city, even las vegas with gambling. Besides the fact that there are thousands of legal gambling alternatives all over the us, from casinos to off track-betting, the problem is that a one-trick pony does not a circus make. Not only does it keep the collective skill level down per hospitality, ala Orlando, there is always a chance the tourists really will stop coming. Shortly after sep 11, 2001, there was a great dropoff for a year, than it slowly came back. Never, ever count on any single industry staying forever. And the main point is, in a one-industry town, when that industry goes, you have a ghost town left, like the old mining towns in the past, or Detroit in the present...............

Where do people from poor areas get their money to come here now??? Your guess is as good as mine. I knew a lady in South Carolina that pooled her welfare checks to make a trip to Atlantic City and a trip to Vegas every year. This is the basis for my prediction that Vegas will always be here and will always flourish because it will always give people the hope of winning. Vegas is becoming more than just America's playground, look around, American citizens becoming a minoroty in Vegas. The world economy is flourishing while our is teatering on collapse, that will make vegas flourish for generations to come. There will always be people to spend their hard earned money, or government supplements, to come to Vegas in the hopes of making it big. You can never count out the human and their greed, Vegas will always be here to take advantage. This city is going through growing pains, they all do, (remember, vegas is one of the younger cities in the country) but I see a very bright future.

[cjski21]

Originally Posted by jfkIII

wow...this thread is starting to become bizarre!

JFK, you know as well as I do that they all are. This forum is getting out of control. But, on the other hand, it is a nice escape from reality for a while

[jfkIII]

LOL...got that right...I love this place!

BTW...I never really noticed this before...but if you look at Steve Wynn in that picture....doesn't he resemble Dustin Hoffman a little bit...like when he was in Rain Man??? (If you cover those horseteeth with your hand...he REALLY looks like him!!!)

Rain Man: stevewynn...yaaaa...wynnlasvegas...yaaaa. He's a billionaire...yaaa...he grossed onebillion...threehundred and fortytwomillion...sevenhundredtwentyninethousand.. .fivehundredandtwenteight dollars last year....yaaaa....and thirtysevencents....yaaaa.

[Matt Angry]

I've always considered Steve Wynn the "Mr Burns" of Las Vegas, sitting atop the Wynn resort tapping his fingers together saying "hmmmm, wonder what I'll implode today" (in the classic Mr Burns voice)

Then I heard a story from a firnd of mine that works at T.I. Steve Wynn was asked if was going to be laying off people after 9-11 happened and his response was "Not even if someone put a gun to my head." That changed my views a bit.

[ParkTwain]

In that picture, Steve Wynn can probably only barely see the camera. His vision is very bad now. I once saw him strolling down a side hallway at one side of the Wynn casino, with his arm in the arm of (I believe) one of his daughters. (He and his family have been living in the Wynn hotel since it opened.) He was wearing a polo shirt and pullover and running shorts. His gaze was fixed straight ahead of him as he walked.