{"id":68,"date":"2009-07-23T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2009\/7\/23\/Tamares-crown-jewels"},"modified":"2009-07-23T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T20:45:00","slug":"tamares-crown-jewels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/tamares-crown-jewels\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamares&apos; crown jewels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YOiE91f3wEE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" name=\"movie\" \/><param value=\"true\" name=\"allowFullScreen\" \/><param value=\"always\" name=\"allowscriptaccess\" \/><embed width=\"425\" height=\"344\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YOiE91f3wEE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ian Sutton<\/strong> posted this today at <strong>GamingFloor.com<\/strong> and I couldn&apos;t resist snurching it. Sandwiched between footage of the <strong>Lady Luck<\/strong> and other Downtown detritus is a long, loving look at those two fine <strong>Tamares Group<\/strong> dereli &#8230; er, acquisitions: the <strong>Queen of Hearts<\/strong> and the <strong>Hotel Nevada<\/strong>. The latter has long been closed as was (supposedly) the QoH. But I saw some lights on at the old Queen when we drove past it Tuesday night, so who knows?<\/p>\n<p>The bigger question is why Tamares continues to let these eyesores fester, especially with nearby development on <strong>Oscar Goodman<\/strong>&apos;s famous 61 acres <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegasweekly.com\/news\/2009\/jul\/16\/design-crossroads\">proceeding apace<\/a>. It&apos;s past time to knock this crap down. Even empty land would be an improvement. Ditto the Lady Luck. For a three-syllable solution to that gargantuan hulk, I defer to the time-honored wisdom of <strong>Jimmie J.J. Walker<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/v19PpD5uqL0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" name=\"movie\" \/><param value=\"true\" name=\"allowFullScreen\" \/><param value=\"always\" name=\"allowscriptaccess\" \/><embed width=\"425\" height=\"344\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/v19PpD5uqL0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Sutton posted this today at GamingFloor.com and I couldn&apos;t resist snurching it. Sandwiched between footage of the Lady Luck and other Downtown detritus is a long, loving look at those two fine Tamares Group dereli &#8230; er, acquisitions: the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/tamares-crown-jewels\/\">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":[65,51,14,50,47,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68"}],"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=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}