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What a shame. A "used-to-be-favorite" vacation spot gone down the toilet.
I finshed reading my daughter-in-law's jacksmom blog from yesterday (Feb 27th), concerning the trip she and my son took. Just a quick jaunt, to someplace "fun" to get away by themselves. Now they, as well as I, have been there many times over many years, but it seems that each time, you can see a degradation of the place. Not that "The Biggest Little City", Reno, can compete with the likes of Las Vegas, but people have known for years, that Reno has needed to do something to pull themselves up by the bootstraps to at least attract those that want some fun, in a smaller venue.
One of my last times there, was with D, and we loved to make the drive from Seattle there. We stayed at the Sands. But not the Sands we knew - dirty, things underneath the beds, cleaning crew barging in during the afternoon with no knocks, vents hanging from the ceiling.....Needless to say I wrote and complained and received a voucher for 2 free nights, which I used when my son married a year later. Nothing had changed there. I went 2 more times to Reno after that, and I, too, saw the town getting dirtier, more vagrants hanging out on the streets, closer to the entrances to the casinos, smell of piss more pungent, more "cutsey" casinos closing up, slots harder to win at, less and less of any type of entertainment, "newer" casinos (Silver Legacy, Eldorado, Fitzgerald's, etc) running down (more trash in rooms, less room service, worse meals and deals)....you get the picture, or don't want to.
After talking with Matt and Angela, even though they loved getting away and basically had fun, I can't imagine how bad it has become. Slots are all "paper" - and a lot of us still love to hear the clinging/clanging of change, as it hits the metal "bucket", loudly proclaiming our wins!! Now, sure, paper seems to let the gambler just ignore their wins and keep putting it back into the machine....., but where are the sounds? The lights? The excitement? Isn't it supposed to be geared to the gambler's enjoyment and not so much to the pockets of the owners?
I'll never hit Reno again. Vegas offers so much more to see and do than just gambling. Like Reno used to. No more Eddie's Fabulous Fifty's to win money at, to buy that neon-colored jacket one craved, as you were sipping on one of the biggest, thickest milshakes in town! No more walking the small strip with the people out front yelling about the loosest slots in town, to get you to come on in and spend some of that "entertainment" money you brought with you. No more people watching, as a lot of the casinos have those airial walkways to get from one casino to the other (all four of them).
Sorry for the ramblings. It's just another part of the past that's gone.....
cas found a forum thread where a user bet his house that Ron Paul wouldn't raise more than $6 million in one day. Unfortunately for the user, Paul beat the mark in route to setting a single day fundraising record. Here was the original posting, from a Mike Huckabee forum: "I just bet $10000 on Ron Paul to raise under $6 million dollar!!! OMG! what a lock. If and when my bet hits I will donate $2000 to the Mike Huckabee campaign. If he miraculously goes over, I lose my house. Let's just say I am not the least bit worried."The interwebs love their Ron Paul! Betting against him, at least when it comes to anything involving the Web, is probably a bad idea. Any one else made a reckless bet before and had to eat their words? Even worse, did you have to pay up?
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