{"id":9293,"date":"2012-07-02T18:14:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T02:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=9293"},"modified":"2012-07-02T18:19:14","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T02:19:14","slug":"those-were-the-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/those-were-the-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Those were the days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9294\" title=\"jackpot-city\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/jackpot-city-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/jackpot-city-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/jackpot-city-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/jackpot-city.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>From the collection of <strong>Charles Phoenix<\/strong>: The year is 1963. The place, <strong>Glitter Gulch<\/strong>. Those were the days when &#8220;Vegas&#8221; was a mythic, unique American place &#8212; and gambling was gambling, not &#8220;gaming.&#8221; About the only thing that hasn&#8217;t changed is the alluring fantasy of growing up to be <strong>Don Draper<\/strong> or a pre-LSD <strong>Roger Sterling<\/strong>.<!--more--><br \/>\n<object width=\"450\" height=\"253\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RBYWmoDVq8Y?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RBYWmoDVq8Y?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the collection of Charles Phoenix: The year is 1963. The place, Glitter Gulch. Those were the days when &#8220;Vegas&#8221; was a mythic, unique American place &#8212; and gambling was gambling, not &#8220;gaming.&#8221; About the only thing that hasn&#8217;t changed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/those-were-the-days\/\">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":[51,140,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9293"}],"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=9293"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9297,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9293\/revisions\/9297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}