The Las Vegas Casino That Looks Like A Trailer
NOT all casinos in Las Vegas are non-lit flesh pits with sticky carpet and two-fur-one lobster.
Not all of them are so fortunate.
In Vegas a floor manager is watching over all 16 slot machines. As the NY Times reports, for eight hours, Station Casinos opened a beige 40-by-10-foot trailer on a vacant 26-acre plot of land about six miles east of the Strip.
There is an outside toilet, on wheels. It is not plush.
As the paper notes: “The sole purpose was to comply with a state law that requires public gambling to occur on a property for at least one shift every two years in order for the landowner to retain the valuable zoning designation needed to conduct wagering.
“It just has to be open to the public,” says Lori Nelson, a spokeswoman for Station Casinos, which owns 16 casinos in Nevada and one in California. “You don’t need to promote it. You don’t need to really have people gamble here. But you do need to have that option.”
And hardly any one came to play. Indeed, the biggest payout on the bank of video poker and blackjack machines was $2.50.
The showgirl – one Wilma Harkins, 57 – wore an Anorak…
Stay in and sue your own loo – and have a Casino bonus on Anorak
Posted: 9th, January 2008 | In: Reviews Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
