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Posted At : June 3, 2008 11:07 AM | Posted By : D McKee
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What's the best Vegas-related Web site? Too many too choose from, I say. But I'm definitively certain I've found the funniest. If you're a fan of CheapoVegas.com, you'll absolutely love its Casino Boy Graveyard. Yes, it's a stroll down memory lane past the tombstones of some of Vegas' best -- and worst -- casinos, which now only exist in our collective memory.
Pride of place is given to the Desert Inn, "the classiest place [Vegas] may ever see." But if you want laughs, nothing beats Casino Boy's incomparably pithy eulogies for those casinos whose demise is mourned only because we won't have them to kick around anymore. The Boardwalk, Key Largo and Westward Ho ... they're all here. (Boardwalk, with its demonic, leering Pennywise marquee, deserves a special circle in Casino Hell.)
Maybe the prize reminiscence of the bunch is Casino Boy's valediction for "the waiting room of the damned," Nevada Palace: "There are other smoky dumps in town, but this place out on Boulder Highway was like a magnet for locals who loved to stuff their mouths with four, five, six cigarettes at a time and have their oxygen tanks wired directly into their tracheotomy holes."
Just be sure not to visit this page while eating or drinking, lest you have a bad moment all over your keyboard.
A quick correction: the website is "cheapovegas.com", not "cheapvegas.com".
I usually recommend cheapovegas.com to people who find out that will have to go to Las Vegas for a convention and there's no place else they would rather not go to.
Correction made, Gregg, with apologies. This is why one should never proofread one's own work.
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