{"id":2760,"date":"2010-03-31T12:22:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T20:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=2760"},"modified":"2010-03-31T12:22:03","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T20:22:03","slug":"portrait-of-a-pioneer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/portrait-of-a-pioneer\/","title":{"rendered":"Portrait of a Pioneer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"501\" height=\"304\" 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\/6ONYe__uLak&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"501\" height=\"304\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6ONYe__uLak&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>As <strong>Bernie Goldstein<\/strong>&#8216;s son points out in this three-minute featurette, the Goldstein family didn&#8217;t know beans about riverboat gambling when they got started &#8212; but neither did anyone else. What made the difference for <strong>Isle of Capri Casinos<\/strong> was, among other factors, that Goldstein <em>pere<\/em> learned the industry better than some of his competitors and also crafted a strong brand identity. The filmlet understandably skips over the &#8220;Pile of Debris&#8221; era when Goldstein and his fellow executives lost their path and arguably fell behind the times. However, the overarching achievement outweighs the near-downfall. With Isle actively shopping for a Vegas presence, this history lesson obtains particular timeliness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Bernie Goldstein&#8216;s son points out in this three-minute featurette, the Goldstein family didn&#8217;t know beans about riverboat gambling when they got started &#8212; but neither did anyone else. What made the difference for Isle of Capri Casinos was, among &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/portrait-of-a-pioneer\/\">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":[85],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760"}],"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=2760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2761,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions\/2761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}