If you look carefully, you can find this at the southwest corner of the UNLV campus:
I can’t recall a time when this still served as a water feature — something that’s out of the question nowadays — and it would have lost its sponsorship circa 2005, when the Hilton and Caesars brands were cleft apart by Harrah’s Entertainment‘s acquisition of the latter. The (deliberate?) neglect suggests a corporate anachronism that’s been hidden like the batty old uncle in the attic. It’s one of the few tangible reminders of the half-dozen years or so during which Hilton Gaming peeled Caesars off from Starwood Resorts, then became Park Place Entertainment and then, briefly, Caesars Entertainment, before Hilton devoured the whole thing in one great, oligopolistic gulp.
One S&G reader has — unlike me — been to John Ascuaga’s Nugget and deeply regrets having done so:
Two other notes of interest: Perini Building makes the hollow-sounding claim that it’s entitled to every dime because Harmon Hotel (left, as photographed by Jeff_in_OKC) “can be repaired.” Considering that the structural integrity of what was to have been a 48-story Sir Norman Foster-designed building was so badly compromised it’s now an unsightly stub, the term “repair” seems deeply inadequate for what’s lacking. Also, both a chat with Gov. Jim Gibbons and a (considerably more important) June 9 summit meeting with subcontractors have been entrusted to 
once (great city, BTW) but didn’t make it out to the legendary Nugget, which was regarded at the time — 1999 — as being one of the best-marketed casinos in the industry. As for the Nugget’s unusual — and very advantageous — positioning, I can only echo the late, great Johnny Carson and say, “I did not know that.” I stupidly figured that some tightass in D.C. would have thrown a fit about sinful gambling being conducted atop a sacrosanct federal highway and that would be the end of that. Like I always say, you learn (or should learn) something new every day.
While there’s definitely heft to the argument that, given the shriveled U.S. casino market, it makes sense to go where the money is (i.e., Eastern Europe), that point might resonate more convincingly were it not coming from a company that’s been poor-mouthing its creditors no end. Or, as Stern Agee bond analyst David Hargreaves put it, “HET’s post-LBO history has been a string of false promises … 
As you may recall, you can forget about betting on Celtics games if you’re in a Harrah’s property because the company forfeited that sports book action so that CEO Gary Loveman could own a piece of the team. (This is what I mean when I refer to Harrah’s old “pet rock” board.) Since Mr. Walker was a former employee of “his” team, seems the least Loveman could do is write a check to cover his Planet Hollywood and Caesars Palace losses. In any event, Harrah’s is doubly out: both of Walker’s money and that of NBA bettors who can’t lay down their bucks on a Celtics game at a Harrah’s casino anymore. (Harrah’s also won’t take your NBA bet if it “doesn’t like the lines” you bet into or if it deems it too late in the season to take wagers or 
Primary day in Nevada is less than a week away and that’s far too long for my taste. If I had a dollar for every robo-call I’ve received and every expensive-looking flier that’s found its way into my mailbox (and thence straight to the trash), I could take a month off. Archon Corp.’s Sue Lowden was observed by a conservative Washington Post blogger persuading a mobile-billboard owner to 
Lowden’s lone supporter of consequence in the casino industry, Sheldon Adelson, played the Fox News circuit, his ostensible subject being “
$864.5 million: That’s the magic number if you want to put in an opening bid on 11 Station Casinos properties (plus unspecified land and some tribal-casino-management contracts) come Aug. 6. Boyd Gaming‘s already made it clear that it’s good for that and more but the sweetheart deal approved by Judge Gregg Zive enables Station insiders to buy the company for $92.5 million less — an 11% discount.