![]() ![]() Leisure: Pools Pool Parties which hotel? budget options Pool season? Valuables.Downtown and Fremont Street- worth visiting? Parking Walking tours Arts District.Dining: what is "Open Table"? How does it work? Is it dependable?.Dining: Special occasion/ celebration/ fine dining/ great views/ Sunday Brunch.Dining: Dinner & breakfast buffets? Best value? Best US breakfast? Vegetarian options.Dining (UPDATED 2017) - Las Vegas Dining 101 - all dining needs in 1 resource.Driving trips- day trips and planning further afield.Accommodation: savings resort fee budget pre-pay/ pay later condos short rentals.SEASONAL TQs: NYE Super Bowl March Madness Chinese New Year Memorial Day Weekend.Money saving tips! Coupons! Birthday freebies!.First time visitor- what should I know? Includes places to see and things to pack!.Disabled access mobility information Dialysis services Hospitals Scooters.Happy Hours Las Vegas - Updated March 2023.Ultimate Guide Of Free Things To Do In Las Vegas 139+ Listed.Things blur from there but I woke in my own bed surrounded by McDonald’s double cheeseburger wrappers and my teeth unpleasantly filmed over with McGrease. It went well until I ended up at the Atomic where my friend Scott was working and decided that I needed a dry martini to go with the tux. The denizens of Fremont got the word that I was being filmed and although many stopped to chat, I was not bothered, who wants to mug someone when on film. Whenever I passed a van that you could not see into the windows of, I waved and gave the none existent camera the thumbs up. ![]() Word spread and as I made my way down then seedy Fremont. Once that was sorted out, time resumed again. When she said that it must be part of a reality show, I denied it most vehemently and that sealed the deal. That important technicality out of the way, then she postulated a number of unlikely theories for my mode of dress. I was asked if I was a cop, which I denied. I explained that I was merely a tipsy tourist having a drink, She simply could not accept that. ![]() Time froze as it does when odd things happen in bars.Įventually an equally portly soiled dove came over to ask “Do you know where you are? And what’s my angle. Then standing in what passed as a bright spot near the bar as the bartender asked “Do you know where you are?” I ordered a drink. In, looking like a portly James Bond, walked myself in a white dinner jacket over a full tux, and security immediately asked “Do you know where you are?” Yes, I just popped in for a drink. Most were dressed some form of torn and faded Victoria’s Secret type items to show off their attributes to promote the sweet trade. The area around the perimeter of the bar was occupied by very seedy soiled doves who fit the preceding descriptions. The bar was populated with down and out rummies, not quite cured addicts of very sort you can name drugs, booze, gambling usually a hybrid of all 3, and general riff raff. It was the first stop around Noon most days for some of the minor miscreants just released from City Hall and made that their first stop to open the plastic bags fresh from the property room containing their IDs and their cash for an eye opener. ![]() Back then the bar had a yellow fly speck stained sign that you could barely read through the smoke that said something like “For the benefit of our patrons the Gold Spike has Purified Air”. Recollections of the Gold Spike, not the place you see today but back in the good old bad old days, the place was filled smoke and every surface was a little sticky and that was just the casino, not the restaurant with the mystery meat hotdogs. ![]()
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