As it turns out, no, not many. This was one of those questions that we figured we'd have plenty to say about, but the more we thought about and looked into it, the less we knew, we realized.
Prior to being the Park, from 1977-1980 the property was called Holiday International Hotel & Casino and its chief claim to fame was serving nickel beers, which Anthony Curtis recalls. When Main Street Station later took over the spot, five-cent beers were reintroduced, so from where we're sitting, the Park's principal claim to fame was its discontinuance of cheap beer. This would explain why Anthony Curtis has practically no memory of the joint, other than the fact that it was one of the first casinos in Las Vegas under non-US ownership (he believes the owner was Japanese).
From an an old issue of the now defunct Blackjack Forum newsletter, dated 1988, we learned the casino had 10 blackjack tables (a later reference listed 14), dealing one and six-deck games, with table minimums as low as $1. And that's about as much as we can tell you, other than the sole reference we found in LVA, from October, 1990, where it was mentioned in the news that the Park had closed to make way for the Church Street Station Festival Marketplace, an $82 million project by entrepreneur Bob Snow, who was behind the Church Street Station entertainment complex in Orlando. The Florida operation, which mainly consisted of a bunch of nightclubs, thrived in the late '70s and early '80s disco era, but the Las Vegas version, which debuted in August, 1991, never got off the ground and the property lasted less than a year in that form, before being reincarnated as Main Street Station.
