{"id":5477,"date":"2010-12-29T10:42:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T18:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=5477"},"modified":"2010-12-29T10:42:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T18:42:00","slug":"uncle-carls-carpet-barn-strikes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/uncle-carls-carpet-barn-strikes-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncle Carl’s Carpet Barn strikes again"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You’ll never guess where high-end furniture and carpeting once destined for Fontainebleau<\/strong> has now turned up<\/a>. The renovation explains the Buffalo Bill’s<\/strong> closure rumors from last autumn. So the trail of ex-F-blew furnishings now stretches from the Plaza<\/strong> in downtown Las Vegas<\/strong>, through the Tropicana<\/strong> on the Strip and out to Primm<\/strong>. But what’s become of the in-room iMacs<\/strong>? If Carl Icahn<\/strong> wanted another tax deduction, he could earn that and credit in Heaven by donating them to the hard-hit Nevada<\/strong> school system. (So far, it appears F-blew is only offloading furnishings that were never installed in the ginormous hotel, not stripping the completed rooms.) As Howard Stutz<\/strong> wrote on his Twitter<\/strong> feed,\u00a0 “[A]ctually, what’s happening in Primm is kind of a fun story. Not the usual doom and gloom that I usually report<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

That’s right, Edna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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