{"id":1142,"date":"2009-11-02T12:03:25","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T20:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2009-11-02T12:04:27","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T20:04:27","slug":"from-the-mailbag-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/from-the-mailbag-10\/","title":{"rendered":"From the mailbag #10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1143 aligncenter\" title=\"Riverboat\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Riverboat.jpg\" alt=\"Riverboat\" width=\"500\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Riverboat.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Riverboat-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m no longer a regular viewer of <em>CSI<\/em>, but someone who is spotted a glaring anachronism in the most recent episode:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Did anyone else notice the old (aka early 90s) nighttime air shot of <span id=\"lw_1257189690_2\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px dashed #0066cc; cursor: pointer;\">the Strip<\/span>?\u00a0 It showed the old <strong>Holiday Inn Riverboat*<\/strong> on the strip, adjacent to <strong>Casino Royale<\/strong>!\u00a0 I wonder why they had to dig into old film archives when they have so much current footage?!!!<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(* &#8212; now <strong>Harrah&#8217;s Las Vegas<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p>Good question. Perhaps <strong>CBS-TV<\/strong> budgetary pressures are causing the <em>CSI<\/em> showrunners to dip into the stock-footage vault but something as sloppy as what you describe is pretty inexcusable. Also, wouldn&#8217;t footage so old match poorly with the much higher resolution in which the various <em>CSI<\/em> shows are shot? &#8216;Tis a puzzlement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m no longer a regular viewer of CSI, but someone who is spotted a glaring anachronism in the most recent episode: &#8220;Did anyone else notice the old (aka early 90s) nighttime air shot of the Strip?\u00a0 It showed the old &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/from-the-mailbag-10\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1145,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions\/1145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}