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Poll Preview: Was Vegas better off during the good-old bad-old days when "the boys" of the Chicago Outfit, New York's Five Familes, the Kansas City dons, and the Cuban/Miami connections owned and operated the casinos?
In case you missed yesterday's QoD, it attempted to provide a perspective on the age-old question of whether or not Las Vegas was "better" during the good-old bad-old days of the 1950s and '60s when the mobsters held sway at most of the Strip casinos.
Here are the choices:
I believe that everyone (except those who wound up on the wrong side of the equation) got a fairer gamble and better deals in the days when the mobsters were in charge of the casinos.
I believe that the 1950s and 1960s, when Las Vegas was an adult playground and everyone got dressed up to go to the casino and dinner shows, were the glamour years and I wish at least some places still kept up those standards.
I'd return to the parts of the mob era that were good (pre-corporate-gouge times), though I'd leave behind the parts that weren't so good (violence against advantage players, skim to evade taxes, street crime, etc.).
I wasn't around during the mob days, but from what I know about them, I'll take the current casino environment anytime. You can never go back and I always look forward.
I think yesterday's question was lame, yesterday's answer was lamer, and this poll is lamest of all.
I have a question I can't find a clear answer to. As a foreigner, what's the easiest way to deposit cash in Vegas? I'm not talking about big amounts, but what if I want to deposit $500? Or $5,000? Can I open a bank account in Vegas? Can the casino wire it for you? Do they charge for this service? What if it's table game or poker money? Will the casino still perform a wire if you have the chips on you? I've only heard about this with slot jackpot. It seems like getting cash is easy enough by using an ATM or depositing front money, but I never hear about getting money back home. Not that I pretend I'm going to win, but I wonder what happens to people who do and are foreigners.