Did Liberace really have a private casino in his Vegas home? How was this legal?

With the imminent closure of the Riviera Hotel, can you give us a brief list of unusual facts about the resort? One thing I had heard was that the Riv was the first hotel on the Strip to house a fast food outlet. What was that outlet and can you give us any other little known fun facts about the hotel, not just the basic history?

What happened to all of the sports merchandise that appeared throughout the Las Vegas Club on Fremont?

In the mid ‘70s, we flew into Vegas and landed on the tarmac. We deplaned outdoors and walked into an airport which was a large industrial-type building, with pipes and metal duct work on the ceiling. It was certainly not McCarran. It was messy and crowded. When did all flights go into McCarran and what happened to that building?

Any idea what happened to the large stained-glass decoration that was part of Barbary Coast and then Bill’s Gambling Hall, but was disassembled for the Cromwell renovation? It was one of the last bits of vintage Las Vegas at the corner of Flamingo and the Strip.

The early history of Circus Circus seems to be hard to access for me. Did they really have a slide as the entry and an admission fee?

When I went to the casino in Tampa, I was told that they could not comp drinks at the bar like in Las Vegas because they were not an Indian casino even though I was playing video poker at the bar. Are the Seminoles the owners of the casino? What are the restrictions to comp drinks? This was the same reason given to me at the Oxford Casino in Maine. They comp drinks in Connecticut at Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun. What are the reasons for not comping the drinks?

I gather you (we) are in for another round of construction around the Spaghetti Bowl. I hadn’t heard about that and I was a little surprised, since it seems like we just finished living through years of freeway construction. Didn’t they do the job right the first time?

I was wondering what is the status of the iconic Blue Angel? Is she still standing guard over the motel? I make a trip out that way on the bus every time I'm in Las Vegas to see her. I'm not certain what makes her so special to me but I just love going by and seeing her. I hope that if taken down, the statue will be erected somewhere else where people can still go by and see her.

Does Las Vegas have a zoo?