COME ON SPECK, LET"S NOT CAUSE UNDUE PANIC
I feel so safe downtown I used to drop off my eighty year old mother for the midnight bingo session at the Stern.
Fremont Street is more heavily protected than the White House. Bike cops, foot patrols, motorized dirt bike cops, horse mounted cops, undercover vice and narco cops, not to mention the two squads of black and whites accompanied by two paddy wagons always in the hood.
Then there's the street survelance system Jackie Gaughn installed years ago which covers every square inch of downtown from Main to 10th Streets and Ogden to Carson.
And let us not forget Oscar's cleanup campaign which started about two years ago. I'd venture to say that about 80% of what Hiz Honor calls cock-a-roaches are gone.
Wadahya think about a new thread for the "BRAVE HEARTS"?
DOWNTOWN / The Real Las Vegas
The Other Las Vegas
The Sleazy Las Vegas
For The Not So Faint Of Heart
Ahhh - I remember when...
... you could stand in the doorway of the 'Stern and be called across the street by "pretty" SW'ers. To the back of the building, by a dumpster, for a nice stand-up BBBJ and plow from behind for $25 and no worries.
Norman - I only request that I can retain my usage rights of "IRW" and that such usage, on my part, will be at random and, of course, will apply to 89109 as well as to any other areas that currently do or do not exist. Other than that - use at will!
but where will the children play?
Quoted from Las Vegas Casino Death Watch: "The Las Vegas Business Press reports that Tamares will demolish three downtown properties! Now that we've hyped this, we'll mention that they're talking about the Hotel Nevada, Queen of Hearts, and the Ambassador East, so nobody with all their original teeth will be affected. Get this, the article mentions that removing these buildings is expected to increase the value of the land for resale. Gotta like that. The article also mentions that rumors that the Gold Spike and Western will be demolished have been denied. The Death Watch speculates that Tamares trusts that those buildings will fall over without mechanical assistance."
[P.S. I'm still sulking (snivel, whine) over the archiving, locking, and renaming of my original thread. Is this really better than "Food, Golf, Politics, Whackings, Implosions..." Now it's nearly as scintillating as the ever popular General Reports in Other Areas on Micellaneous Matters by Member #8457 in Nonspecific Forums of a Bland and Empty but Orderly Nature. A couple years of therapy and I'll probably get over it. At least "Clip-joints" survived, probably through an oversight.]