That elusive critter, native to Nevada, the “Trailer Station”* was sighted earlier today by visiting S&G readers. United Coin had set up shop on W. Charleston Boulevard, in the former Skinny Dugan’s Pub. (This is a mandatory ritual for gaming-enabled sites that don’t have 200 0r more hotel rooms, lest they lose their gambling entitlement.)
When I saw, I heard the immortal words of Steve Wynn: “There’s nothing worse than a dead porte cochere.” How true, Steve. How true.
Would-be players (all two of them) could enter ’round the back.
Nothing says “Trailer Station” like 12 machines and one desperately lonely attendant. Stay tuned for future Trailer Station visitations to the baked asphalt where the Queen of Hearts Motel and the Moulin Rouge once stood.
* — the nomenclature was invented by the R-J‘s Howard Stutz after United Coin hauled a trailer out to the Castaways site, upon which Station Casinos was extending its gaming entitlement at the time (a status that was re-extended earlier this year). Speaking of Stutz, the Newspaper That Must Not Be Cited has him on Primary Night duty. One doesn’t know whether to congratulate him on a temporary (?) elevation to the political beat or console him for being the victim of TNTMNBC’s refusal to maintain an adequate political staff.
The man who would be kingmaker. Unless you were voting Republican, Primary Day in Nevada was better than Sominex. However, I will admit to enjoying voting against Bernie Zadrowski‘s bid for a justiceship. It’s not because Zadrowski is collection agent for the casinos — it’s part of his job as head of the D.A.’s Bad Check Unit (a questionable use of public resources — until one considers the alternative, which usually involves guys named “Lefty” and “Joey the Clown”).
No, it’s because of Zadrowski’s efforts to become the next Sig Rogich. Being a political string-puller in Clark County hardly seems appropriate for someone with aspirations to the bench, IMO. In fact, it doesn’t sit well that Zadrowski was cracking the whip on casino deadbeats at a time when, as party co-chair, he might have to hit those same casinos up for donations to the cause.
