{"id":2400,"date":"2010-02-26T19:12:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T03:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=2400"},"modified":"2010-02-26T19:13:21","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T03:13:21","slug":"blast-from-the-past-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/blast-from-the-past-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast from the past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"https:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IG8xpe5yao8&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IG8xpe5yao8&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Since we&#8217;ve been talking about <strong>Archon Corp<\/strong>. this week &#8212; and because I didn&#8217;t want the last post of the week to be about feet &#8212; here&#8217;s an old ad for the <strong>Wet &#8216;n Wild<\/strong> water park, whose closure really diminished the Strip, in ways both obvious and subtle. Maybe the Lowden family made more moolah renting it out as a holding pen for <strong>Fontainebleau<\/strong> construction &#8212; these days, probably not &#8212; or extracting endless option renewals from would-be could-be might-be (but maybe not) developer <strong>Christopher Milam<\/strong>. Still, a lot of Las Vegans miss it and while this TV spot would never have won a <strong>Clio Award<\/strong>, it gives a pretty good sense of what the place was like. Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since we&#8217;ve been talking about Archon Corp. this week &#8212; and because I didn&#8217;t want the last post of the week to be about feet &#8212; here&#8217;s an old ad for the Wet &#8216;n Wild water park, whose closure really &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/blast-from-the-past-4\/\">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":[46,4,59,53,9,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400"}],"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=2400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2402,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions\/2402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}