and still more Trop till it comes out your ears
Since last week I’ve remembered that I need to go shopping for something or other at the Home Depot on West Tropicana. About a dozen times or more.
Obviously I had bad timing and hit a temporary slow patch last week, becuase I have since seen ladies working Trop at all hours, middle of the night, middle of the day, whatever, and many of them looked quite tasty, but it looks to me like the biggest prime time there was right around afternoon rush hour, around five and sixish in the p.m. I have absolutely no idea what the working girls think a motorist is going to do about it on that street at that hour. Wave and blow them a kiss from the middle of the traffic and throw money out the window, perhaps.
Something about most of them gives me the feeling that the majority are not local, probably are heavily managed by an "uncle" or two, and they may be very business-like in their attitude toward customer service, as well as about two to three times as expensive as the average SW. I don't know exactly what leads me to suspect all of this just by looking, so I could easily be mistaken, but that's the feeling I get. Some of them really are exceptional lookers, and I imagine they could be working the resorts too, unless they've had problems with security from the two major Strip conglomerates, which between them control close to 90% of the resort corridor now. The majority of them I saw were way, way over the top in their outlandish “do-me” costumes. If the skirts were just a little shorter I could have counted pubic hairs.
I took the suggestion of Wild Wild West as a hangout, and it's a good one for fooling around there. It's pleasantly cheesy, feels kind of like a small version of a downtown joint, and while you can't tell what's up on the street from inside the casino the parking lot has a fine view of the urban wildlife. I did see one BSW come in from off the street, and she was a trim attractive little package that I might have been willing to break into my piggy bank for, but she was walking crisply like she had a purpose as she crossed the casino, and in moments she was joined by two grumpy companions who looked like "Mr. T" after a few years working the prison weight-pile, and the three of them were all business as they headed towards the rooms.
The area around about Wendy's to Polaris on both sides of Trop looked most consistently busy to me, with a few more occasionally scattered up several blocks further west, but I didn't see anything happening anywhere past Arville at all, and also didn‘t find any on the side streets.
I also saw several high end SWs walking Harmon between Koval and Paradise: [url]http://maps.google.com/maps?q=298+E+Harmon+Ave,+Las+Vegas,+NV+89109&hl=en&ll=36.108652,-115.159507&spn=0.015879,0.043259&om=1[/url]
Thanks to LV Crimestoppers - keep those tips coming in
[QUOTE=Speck]Every single one is pimped. All of them work Harrahs to BC at least some of the time. But most are under 21...many are under 18, so they wear out their welcome with Metro and Harrahs security really quick.[/QUOTE]
I enjoy your LV and LA posts. And while I get to LV often, certainly not as much as you from your West Coast base. That said, let's not jump to overstatements that potentially draw even more LE attention to Tropicana than it's already getting and ultimately ruin a good thing. I'll be back shortly and will certainly check out the scene again (if its still there), but based on what I saw a week ago there's NO way that "many" are under 18. Young yes, as in 18-24, but c'mon. Mongers dumb enough to chance things with anyone who may be younger deserve the consequences.
PM me if you've actually got evidence to support your sweeping generalizations ("Every single one", "All of them," "most are", "many are"). What are you checking IDs and doing interrogations? I'm sure our LEO friends monitoring the board appreciate the heads up.
You're On The Money, Wastrel !
[QUOTE=Wastrel] I make the over and under at about three weeks from now (a little before the town fills up for the July 4th holiday) so it's now officially -110 to win 100 on whether Metro has completed their inevitable Tropicana streetsweeping operation before or after June 26th, with or without some doors battered down over at the Budget Suites and a few California registered Cadillacs impounded from there.[/QUOTE]
It's become a ritual streetsweeping operation every Thursday and Friday on Fremont Street to have things cleaned up for the tourist's arrival Friday afternoon.
It starts about 4 pm Thursday with a parade of two black and white squads (10 cars) accompanied by two paddy wagons from the downtown area command down LV Blvd to Fremont. The first paddy wagon parks on this corner while the first squad screens left and right over to Ogden and Bridger in a Southeasterly direction. The second squad heads down Fremont to Bruce where the paddy wagon parks and the black and whites start their screening Northwesterly between Ogden and Bridger.
In the meantime, one squad each of horse mounts, motorized off road bike mounts, and bicycle mounts show up. On a few occasions, they have even dispatched a squad on foot. I truely believe they dedicate half of the downtown manpower to this 24 hour weekly saturation busting operation. If you are walking in the area, and don't fit the profile of a tourist, you're going to be handcuffed and run. Then from 4 pm Friday until 4 am Monday, it's difficult to find a cop in the area, let alone a provider!
My bet is the sweep will eminate from the Southwest Area Command at 4pm on the Thursday preceeding the 4th of July weekend. Get 'em while they last !
yo daddy home, little girl?
[QUOTE=Cienega32]I wonder if they're letting it all escalate to a point prior to the sweep just to raise the head count a bit.
The ole sugar on the ant hill routine.[/QUOTE]I've wondered if they might not have an interest in doing something more worthwhile, but also more time consuming, than clogging up the system with some pissant but still expensive misdemeanor busts of working girls (who'll just have to do some extra work after bailing out) by developing a case on a few overfed curbside "business agents" and their informal commercial enterprises instead. That is, of course, where the money goes, after all. If so, I'd personally wish them the best of luck with that approach to setting priorities on the street.
Nah, it'll probably just be another stupid cattle call of working girls for a pointless head count, so nevermind.[QUOTE=Norman Stormin]My bet is the sweep will eminate from the Southwest Area Command at 4pm on the Thursday preceeding the 4th of July weekend. Get 'em while they last ![/QUOTE]That'd be the 29th, so I gather you're taking the over. Is NP2112 leaning toward the under?