Who bought the El Cortez from Jackie Gaughan?

With all the casino sales you read about, are there any casinos –- downtown or on the Strip –- that are still owned by their original owners?

Two weeks ago I was in a lounge at Planet Hollywood watching Karaoke and ordered a simple rum & Coke. The cost for one small drink (no fruit) was $10. I think that's a lot for one shot of rum, plus the entertainment was terrible. It got me to thinking, what is the single most expensive drink in Las Vegas?

Your Pocketbook of Values has a very lucrative Palms coupon worth up to $50. Can the 50% discount be applied to the total amount of dinner buffet patrons (4 in my family = $68) or is it only good for the first patron ($17)?

LVA sold a Las Vegas Daily 2005 image-a-day historical calendar several years back. The June 3 image featured a beautiful enormous Old-West-style bar in 1908 and said that "The Arizona Club ... had inside the most outstanding feature ... the massive $23,000 red-mahogany main bar, made by the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company of Chicago ... The bar will end up in the Horn Room of the Last Frontier after the club closes in 1941." Does anyone know if the bar was salvaged from the Last Frontier, or was it lost in the demolition?

Walking down the street, between Bally's and Bill's (on the way to Ellis Island), we noticed on the sidewalk in front of an empty lot, all these great jazz artists names in the sidewalk in gold lettering. What was there? This has been bothering me for about a year.

With the economy slowing, and jet fuel and gas prices sky high, have the casinos seen a significant drop in daily, weekly, or monthly revenue? If so, what do they plan to do about generating more visitors?

We have heard from several people that building of Echelon Place has stopped because they ran out of money. How true is that?

Concerning slot machines. Do you think it is possible that some slot machines DO NOT have the highest jackpot combo in the chip? They could pay 200, 400, or 1,000 units, etc., often, but never pay the big one. How would anyone really know? Are the chips checked for this?

I just recently heard that Steve Wynn's golf course is slated to be removed. What is going to be built on the site?