Nugget update: dead again
	
	
		Several weeks ago I reported that things were perking up a little at the back bar in the Golden Nugget.  It didn't last long.
The last several times I've been in the Nugget it appeared to be completely sanitized of any hint of sex.  My impressions were very reliably confirmed when I spoke with a dependable and well informed CW acquaintance recently.  Some very indiscrete low rent SWs who's behavior and appearance is just too crude for anything above The Western provoked the management, and hotel security has again been ordered to eject all working girls from the premises.  
My CW friend who filled in some of the details is an intelligent, very cautious and discrete, well dressed black woman in her late twenties.  She would normally have no problem blending in at the most upscale hotels on the Strip, but for the past couple of weeks she is informally allowed to go only as far as the front bar of the Nugget, and not to work at all or to go near the back bar.
Too bad these guys can't seem to figure out how to use a little judgment when they take out the trash and end up spaying and neutering the place in the process.  To me the atmosphere in there resembles a trip to a dentist's office in a suburban shopping mall, and I will celebrate the day the twinkle-toes boys finally close the deal on selling the place to an actual adult businessman.  The sale should be final sometime later this year, perhaps by the end of summer.
Anyone seeking CWs downtown these days can find a few of them late in the evening off and on at the front horseshoe shaped bar of a well known casino very near the Nugget which I prefer not to name.  Prices are generally about half of the going rates on the Strip.
	 
 
	
	
	
		Don't mess with a dirt hauler
	
	
		[QUOTE=Wastrel]PZ,
Tonight (Wednesday) around ten PM I got caught in the middle of a Vegas cab driver protest on the Strip.  Hundreds of taxis were stopped intentionally jamming LV Blvd for miles while honking their horns, apparently to protest a law just passed by the legislature but not yet signed by the Governor to crackdown on kickbacks from clip joints.  
W[/QUOTE]It wasn't just the Strip, I was in the Aladdin parking garage and exited onto Harmon where several cabs were trying the same thing.  Luckily, several of us were behind one of those big dirt haulers who had had enought and actually pushed one out of the way making a hole for us.  I hate those damn haulers but that night I loved 'em.