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Posted At : March 9, 2009 11:41 PM | Posted By : D McKee
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Smoke gets in your eyes ... and your nostrils ... and all up in your business the instant you pass through the doors into Sunset Station. This was the overriding impression left by a Saturday-night visit and it was quite a striking contrast to the older Hooters, which I expected to be smoke-ridden but wasn't. Sunset Station, contrarily, seems to be aspiring to be the second coming of Nevada Palace. This is a recent and unwelcome phenomenon, suggestive of severe maintenance cutbacks and, just perhaps, an underlying assumption that people either won't notice or just won't care.
That's what really reeked when it became obvious that the Harrah's Entertainment and Station Casinos LBOs were going to go through. Because inadvisable debt loads aren't the customers' problem per se. But in order for those newly overburdened companies to make their nut, particularly when it came to debt servicing, it was obvious that customer service, comping and maintenance were going to take it in the neck. Which is, by all accounts, what's happening. But with companies sky-high on cheap credit and banks gleefully playing the role of the neighborhood pusher, high-risk deals were getting made left and right back then (circa 2006) because so many circumstances conspired to 'enable' -- nay, encourage -- them.
At least the downward march of Sunset Station toward grind-joint status is still reversible. And the smell of smoke is a temporary annoyance ... unlike the tooth-grinding dissatisfaction that was tonight's (in)conclusion of The L Word. Oh, the waste, the Indian-giving, the sucktacular-ness of it!
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