{"id":9042,"date":"2012-05-16T14:09:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T22:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=9042"},"modified":"2024-02-14T15:27:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T23:27:26","slug":"one-vegas-castastrophe-slightly-used","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/one-vegas-castastrophe-slightly-used\/","title":{"rendered":"One Vegas castastrophe, slightly used"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve got a spare $1,450 handy, you can be the proud owner of the <strong>London Clubs<\/strong> marquee that formerly adorned <strong>Planet Hollywood<\/strong>&#8216;s fa\u00e7ade back when it was still the <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2210\" title=\"aladdin2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/aladdin2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"356\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/aladdin2.jpg 356w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/aladdin2-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/aladdin2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px\" \/><strong>Aladdin<\/strong>, plus one baccarat chip, shipping and handling not included. (Some assembly required.) &#8220;It was the first European style casio [<em>sic<\/em>] in <strong>Las Vegas<\/strong>,&#8221; writes seller <strong>Mark<\/strong>, and undoubtedly the last, I might add. It successively broke the backs of <strong>London Clubs International<\/strong> and Planet Ho&#8217;s casino division, reducing both to minor principalities in the <strong>Caesars Entertainment<\/strong> empire. At a mere 13 feet long and 6 feet, 6 inches high, and weighing only 175 pounds, this is clearly <!--more-->the perfect accessory for your &#8220;man cave&#8221; or yard, as Mark suggests. Heck, I can just see it on my front lawn. There&#8217;s much weirder stuff just down the street &#8230; although those killjoys at <strong>UNLV<\/strong> removed the suspected meth lab that was sitting at the south end of their campus.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the fates of LCI and Planet Ho, how did this marquee come to be in private hands? Or is Mark really <strong>Gary Loveman<\/strong> in disguise? He&#8217;s gotta pay the interest on that $20 billion somehow. Better hurry, folks, before <strong>Lonnie Hammargren<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sarahkramer\/sets\/72057594048364787\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">snaps this up<\/a> for his house of horrors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve got a spare $1,450 handy, you can be the proud owner of the London Clubs marquee that formerly adorned Planet Hollywood&#8216;s fa\u00e7ade back when it was still the Aladdin, plus one baccarat chip, shipping and handling not included. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/one-vegas-castastrophe-slightly-used\/\">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":[65,7,140,6,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9042"}],"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=9042"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33043,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9042\/revisions\/33043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}