{"id":3697,"date":"2010-06-04T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T17:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=3697"},"modified":"2010-06-04T09:19:44","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T17:19:44","slug":"blast-from-the-past-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/blast-from-the-past-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast from the past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you look carefully, you can find this at the southwest corner of the <strong>UNLV<\/strong> campus:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3698\" title=\"DSCN1995\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/DSCN1995.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/DSCN1995.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/DSCN1995-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/DSCN1995-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>I can&#8217;t recall a time when this still served as a water feature &#8212; something that&#8217;s out of the question nowadays &#8212; and it would have lost its sponsorship <em>circa<\/em> 2005, when the <strong>Hilton<\/strong> and <strong>Caesars<\/strong> brands were cleft apart by <strong>Harrah&#8217;s Entertainment<\/strong>&#8216;s acquisition of the latter. The (deliberate?) neglect suggests a corporate anachronism that&#8217;s been hidden like the batty old uncle in the attic. It&#8217;s one of the few tangible reminders of the half-dozen years or so during which <strong>Hilton Gaming<\/strong> peeled Caesars off from <strong>Starwood Resorts<\/strong>, then became <strong>Park Place Entertainment<\/strong> and then, briefly, <strong>Caesars Entertainment<\/strong>, before Hilton devoured the whole thing in one great, oligopolistic gulp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you look carefully, you can find this at the southwest corner of the UNLV campus: I can&#8217;t recall a time when this still served as a water feature &#8212; something that&#8217;s out of the question nowadays &#8212; and it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/blast-from-the-past-6\/\">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":[7,140,9],"tags":[202],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697"}],"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=3697"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3707,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697\/revisions\/3707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}