There is this story in the Daily Mail that I find amusing because my brother and I drove up to Las Vegas shortly after I was stationed in San Diego and what we enjoyed along with the sin, the gambling, and the shabby casinos of that time was that all the drinks were free and pretty waitresses kept coming around all night offering more free drinks on platters.
I had no idea the idiots in the pools were subsidizing our free drinks. I'm glad I never bothered with pools on any of my visits to Las Vegas. You know what else was free? The rooms were free too. Oh, and they gave us each a $100 to start gambling with. It was their standard deal back in 1985.
I guess it's not like that anymore....
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No...Vegas is NOTHING like it was 30+ years ago.
I've enjoyed gambling most of my life. I come from a family of gamblers. I can remember my father lifting me up so I could put a penny in a penny slot machine in some hole-in-the-wall place near Lake Tahoe in the 1960s. I was playing blackjack at the old Showboat in Las Vegas the night Elvis died. I chased one deck blackjack games all over Nevada as they slowly got replaced by those multi-deck shoes. I never gambled large amounts, but I did it consistently over the years.
It used to be that the focus was on the gambling, and everything else was to keep you at the table or on the slots. I'm starting to get the feeling that it's flipping a little -- the gambling is to get you to the venue, but you spend a lot more on food, lodging, and shows. I really don't gamble much any more, but my wife still loves to play the videogame-like slots. It used to be, we'd spend thirty bucks on food and lodging and lose $500 gambling in an evening. Now, she often ends the evening ahead or only loses a little, but the room is $300 and the food is $200.
idiots in the pools subsidizing the drinks? Me no comprendo.
The Daily Mail article was referring to a visitor to Las Vegas who found that a 6 pack of Coors light at the pool at his hotel delivered would cost $30.00 and a case would cost him almost $300.00. In other words, the guys in the pool who were drinking were clearly paying for my free drinks......except, this was the hotels on the strip that are long gone and as far as I can recall, didn't have pools. It was 1985 and a very very different city back then. It was still the original mob casinos and to be honest, they were dumps.
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