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Thursday night we finally went to check out old downtown Vegas. I didn’t know what was supposed to be downtown and kinda just suspected a few old-timey casinos scattered in the midst of lots of office buildings. Yeah, not quite, and I now i feel bad about not taking any of our Vegas visitors to Fremont Street because it was awesome. Fremont Street is worlds more compact than The Strip and has been closed off to traffic since 1994, so it’s a much more festive atmosphere. We got there just before the 9PM light show, in time to buy a couple football beers, one of the best purchases I’ve ever made.
Only cool kids drink beer out of a straw. The light show was impressive. The entire block is sheltered by a canopy with the worlds largest TV screen on its underside. They turn off all the neon casino lights, so it gets nice and dark and then the giant screen goes into action. From Wikipedia:
A section comprising one fiftieth of the total canopy equals the size of the world’s current largest electric sign. Originally, nearly 2.1 million incandescent lights were housed in the canopy. With the completion of the $17 million upgrade, more than 12 million LED lamps illuminate the overhead canopy. Within the canopy itself are 220 speakers capable of producing 550,000 watts of sound.
Here’s a video I took. There are other, better ones, but I wanted to try out youtube and make my own content.
Fifteen minutes after the 9:00PM light show there was a “Sphere of Death” motorcycle show, also free naturally. You know what the sphere of death is – that metal cage/sphere in which Homer rides loops in The Simpsons’ Movie. This particular show culminated with three riders roaming the cage simultaneously. Fun stuff; have a look:
A contortionist preformed after the 10PM light show, but sadly we only caught the last eight seconds because we were touring casinos. There are a number of old, super famous casinos on Fremont Street, like Golden Nugget and Binion’s, the original home of the World Series of Poker.
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We went into Mermaid Casino first and the two women in the doorway, all gussied up in the fluffy flamingo feather look, gave us beads and a ticket for a raffle and a free drink. I was halfway through the sentence “now what are we supposed to do with these tickets” when a server ran up, and took our ticket stubs and drink orders. I got the most disgustingly strong rum and coke I’ve ever encountered in my life. It couldn’t have been far from straight liquor, and I would have been well served to not drink it. Anand got a Margarita that was more palatable, so after we walked into Mermaid a second time and got two more free drink tickets, I tried my luck with one of those. Straight Tequila. I swear they must have been trying to kill me. Since Anand didn’t have any singles for the tip, he put a five dollar bill in a slot machine and cashed out after losing a nickel. This works great in the strip casinos. When you cash out of a strip slot machine, you get a ticket which you take this ticket to a ticket-redemption machine that pays you out in proper change. The Fremont Street machines tend to be a little more old-timey, and actually dispense coins. Pretty awesome to hear all the clinking when you win, unless of course you put a five into a nickel slot machine hoping for change to tip with. Anand got back 99 nickels.
Here’s another great slot machine picture. I saw this big bruiser-looking dude sitting by an aisle playing a slot machine and then happened to notice the name of the machine. Check it out.
One more gaming machine photo. This one I decided was my favorite machine in all of Vegas. It’s video poker with an excellent pay-out scale, but that’s not what makes it special. While normally you have to scrounge around to find nickel video poker in casinos, this one you can play for pennies! Whoa! You could play this for days and only spend a dollar. On the other hand, I’m something of a video poker master now, getting quads left and right, raking in the big bucks through sheer luck, so I’m a little too much of a baller to play for pennies. But here you go; behold its blurry beauty:
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And one last picture: the food we ate with our beer and disgusting liquor drinks. Another definite highlight of the trip, coming from a grill in the Mermaid Casino. Actually, I think this may have been why we walked into that casino to start with. A fried twinkie – the first of my life. It was magnificent.
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We capped off the night with some blackjack, which I had sworn off but seemed like a decent idea at the moment. I won a couple dollars, playing $5 blackjack for a pretty decent length of time. I’ll take it.
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