{"id":17,"date":"2009-10-22T15:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T19:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2009\/10\/22\/From-the-mailbag-9"},"modified":"2018-08-22T08:56:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T16:56:54","slug":"from-the-mailbag-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/from-the-mailbag-9\/","title":{"rendered":"From the mailbag #9"},"content":{"rendered":"

One reader asks, regarding senatorial aspirant Sue Lowden<\/strong>‘s esteemed Pioneer Hotel & Gambling Hall<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

I’m confused (as usual, but…) – Isn’t the Pioneer NOT a gambling hall now, its shell hosting an ABC convenience store & various other small shops?
\nI don’t remember if I ever patronized the place when it was a casino, but its stores are in a good location for the Downtown tourist crowd; the ABC Store is especially popular with our Hawaiian friends. That’s good for sales taxes, right?<\/em><\/p>\n

As for the Vegas Club<\/strong>, please don’t vaporize it yet: We’re going to stay there at the end of the month, mainly because it’s free for me – and a separate free room for a friend of mine – allowing him to attend the Speedway<\/strong> races for that much less money<\/em>.<\/p>\n

You’re thinking of the Pioneer on Fremont Street<\/strong>, while Ms. Lowden’s establishment is down in Laughlin<\/strong>. And it very much has gambling. As for dematerialization, S&G<\/em> did not nominate the Vegas Club for that dubious honor but suggested that, as long as Sen. Harry Reid<\/strong>‘s people are threatening to “vaporize” Ms. Lowden that they make themselves useful and turn their phasers on her grind joint, which is regarded as a bottom-feeder even by Laughlin standards.<\/p>\n

\"\" The Vegas Club<\/strong> is very much on people’s minds, as another reader asks:<\/p>\n

How is it possible that TV series<\/em> VEGA$ starring Robert Urich<\/strong> came out on DVD on October 20<\/a> and I saw nothing in the Las Vegas media celebrating the occasion. I saw an ad in<\/em> Newsweek. They couldn’t get something with Wayne F. Newton<\/strong> at the Tropicana<\/strong> or Phyllis Davis<\/strong> and Judy Landers<\/strong> in front of the Plaza<\/strong> or the Las Vegas Club? Sad, sad, sad<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"Vega$\"Ah, a Phyllis Davis shout-out. You’re speaking our language. And, yes, that VEGA$<\/em> release really snuck by, didn’t it? In a classic case of the blind following the blind, local TV stations take their cues from the newspapers. The various Greenspun-owned organs have been slashing staff at a fearsome rate, so it’s understandable that they’d miss it.<\/p>\n

As for the Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/em>, suffice it to say that staffers there, up to and including head cheese Thomas Mitchell<\/strong>, had to be told<\/em> that the Moulin Rouge<\/strong> was burning down because — even though it was happening across the street — they work in a penetentiary-like building with no windows to the outside world (architecture as institutional metaphor).<\/p>\n

So it’s not the least bit surprising that our insular and rapidly declining local media would totally blow this one. As for Mayor Oscar Goodman<\/strong>, he had a previous commitment in London<\/strong>, but still … no proclamation? No declaration that Oct. 2009 was hereby “VEGA$<\/em> Day”? Another missed opportunity for some free ink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One reader asks, regarding senatorial aspirant Sue Lowden‘s esteemed Pioneer Hotel & Gambling Hall: I’m confused (as usual, but…) – Isn’t the Pioneer NOT a gambling hall now, its shell hosting an ABC convenience store & various other small shops? … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,46,51,4,52,49,50,47,19,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"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=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22317,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/22317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}