This being the fourth anniversary of HST's choice to leave this plane ... where exactly was the Mint casino and what is the history of the MINT 400?

Is my mind playing tricks on me or did this really happen as I remember? I could swear that in the '70s, a downtown casino was offering "behind-the-scenes" tours of security, which included actually going up into the catwalks over the casino floor and watching the security guys with their binoculars looking through one-way mirror panels (no cameras at that time). Both my father and I remember taking this tour, but my mother and wife say we're crazy. Was such a tour ever offered or did I dream this?

What do you make of the big flap over President Obama dissing Las Vegas as a place to hold a convention?

There was a little blurb in our newspaper last Sunday about the mob museum in Las Vegas. How long will it be till it's opened?

In the 2/21/09 QoD, you said Handsome Ed Clark wasn’t the father of Clark County. So who was this "Clark" who the county was named for?

I was wondering if you could discuss the history of Piero’s Italian Cuisine on Paradise and Convention Center Drive. I’ve been told it used to have a different name and was popular mob hangout.

Is Clark County named after Ed Clark and is Cashman Field named after James Cashman?

Last year I read in a gambling magazine that the Stratosphere is the only casino on the Strip that is in the Las Vegas city limits. I have not been able to find the city-limit boundaries. Can you shed some light on this?

The Las Vegas Valley is prone to flash floods. Have there been instances where transients were washed out of or drowned in the elaborate storm-drain system?

My question is about slot machines. Thirty years ago when I first started vacationing in Las Vegas, slots were little more than an afterthought, exiled to the far corner of the casino where little old ladies with coin buckets and dirty fingers pulled handles and went cross-eyed from watching the reels spin. Today, they occupy well more than half the casino. To what do you attribute the increase in the popularity of machine games?