{"id":6626,"date":"2011-05-12T16:08:42","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T00:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=6626"},"modified":"2011-05-13T08:40:14","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T16:40:14","slug":"riviera-goes-on-nostalgia-kick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/riviera-goes-on-nostalgia-kick\/","title":{"rendered":"Riviera goes on nostalgia kick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6627\" title=\"connie-stevens\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/connie-stevens.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/connie-stevens.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/connie-stevens-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/connie-stevens-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/>As the <strong>Sahara<\/strong> wheezes towards the grave <strong>Sam Nazarian<\/strong> dug for it and the <strong>Tropicana Las Vegas<\/strong> goes &#8220;South Beach&#8221; in a blaze of blinding white, the <strong>Riviera<\/strong> is left in sole possession of the &#8220;old school&#8221; niche on the Strip. And its new owners and management are serious about pursuing nostalgic customers. The erstwhile <em>La Cage<\/em> Theatre will become the <strong>Starlite Theatre<\/strong> and a partial list of headliners includes: ex-Supreme <strong>Mary Wilson<\/strong> (<em>6\/22-73<\/em>), <strong>Connie Stevens<\/strong> (right, <em>7\/6-7\/17<\/em>), <strong>The Fifth Dimension<\/strong> (<em>9\/28-10\/9<\/em>) and &#8212; as previously reported in this space &#8212; <strong>David Brenner<\/strong> (<em>10\/26-11\/6<\/em>). Throw in <!--more-->a couple of tribute bands and that&#8217;s a chauffered trip down Memory Lane.<\/p>\n<p><em>Connie Stevens<\/em>?!? Man, I am so there! Her sidekick will be\u00a0<strong>John Byner<\/strong>, which makes me feel as though I&#8217;ve just been catapulted back to 1972 or something. True, those of us whose memories stretch that far or farther aren&#8217;t the customers who&#8217;ll <a href=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/4wqv5j\" target=\"_blank\">ring up $189K bar tabs whilst trysting<\/a> at <strong>Tryst<\/strong>. But they&#8217;re a solid (and vocal) customer base and the Riv is making a concerted attempt to bring them &#8212; back? &#8212; into the fold. To which <em>S&amp;G<\/em> says congratulations and &#8230; you go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Sahara wheezes towards the grave Sam Nazarian dug for it and the Tropicana Las Vegas goes &#8220;South Beach&#8221; in a blaze of blinding white, the Riviera is left in sole possession of the &#8220;old school&#8221; niche on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/riviera-goes-on-nostalgia-kick\/\">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":[48,14,105,4,53,55,54,9,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6626"}],"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=6626"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6633,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6626\/revisions\/6633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}