OT: Favorite Casino on the strip/off the strip that doesn’t exist anymore?

[RebelScrub]

I really liked the Frontier Casino. They had a fabulous seafood buffet from what I remember. I don’t remember the price They also had a Mexican restaurant that had Cotija tacos for like 3 bucks for 2 gigantic tacos and rice and beans. Cotija is that weird Mexican cheese..

it was also the place where I won Bingo for the first time when I turned 21. I didn’t even know I won. This poor old lady called out Bingo but she was missing a number. My mom looked over and noticed I didn’t fill out a number that had been called. I won 300 dollar coverall. After that I never won again. Shitty f’n game.

I also remember the picketers and being called a scab for the first time. It was a good cause, the prices were god damn cheap.

I still walk to Casino Royale and get me a 3.79 cent hot dog.

Anyways, you guys got a favorite casino with a deal?

 

[WYNN or Dye]

The one on the strip I miss the most is the Stardust. Awesome Sportsbook and was the casino that featured
the movie Casino. Also, Lee Pete was doing his sports show at the Stardust with Donnie Bader. They would talk
about sports betting and Tark the Shark and how dominate UNLV basketball was.

The one off the strip I miss is Showboat. I would always go bowling there and they had a good buffet.

 

[bcvegaspt]

I haven't been inside of a Strip casino for years but I miss the old Caesars. Them putting a retail shop at the entrance off LV Blvd is all I need to know about the inside. Also, I used to work at the pool during my college days so I liked wandering to the tennis court and outdoor boxing arena (and being let into a Heavyweight fight there, too).

I'm sure that this has changed, too, but the Mirage pool (worked there one summer) was great because I had a spot that I could look into the Dolphin Habitat.

I worked at the Frontier for one summer in high school. That pool was terrible. People would smoke out, employees included, in the bathrooms during their breaks. I didn't say a word because that was their choice to do that or not. Just hated having to go into them.

 

[WarthogRebel]

Strip. Frontier I went there occasionally for their buffet.
Off strip. Sam’s town. I fully understand it isn’t closed. But it has become such a shell of itself that I consider it so.

 

[vegas50]

Silver Slipper- Friday night fights. Loved watching the OGs take and make bets...2nd Place Las Vegas Club- i broke in there 1975-craps dealer- most of the bosses were Mafia - retirement gig- signed a 1 year non-compete- dealt to the degenerates- 99 cent breakfast

 

[JTthe2nd]

I remember my bosses at Sav-ons taking me out to a midnight dinner at Binions. We were decorating the store for Christmas so we worked a really late shift. Had a steak dinner special for something crazy like $1.99 or $4.99. Other than that Circus Circus is still around so that doesn't count. Can't say I loved the Thunderbird because our parents would leave us with about $5 in quarters to play in a crappy little arcade while they would gamble for hours. I generally stay away from strip and downtown casinos.

 

[1Tripoda]

I never like the strip. My favorite as well as my family's favorite was Sam's Town. Sam's got the bowling lanes as well as the buffet that we love. If I remember it correctly, Friday was they have crawfish boils?
In downtown, love the Horseshoe for its $2.99 steak and eggs after midnight. My grandma love their poker machines there. She got several royal flushes there. I worked as a. busboy at the LadyLuck as a bus boy when I was 17. Made so much money. Jean Luc was the matrede there....great foods. Lobster and filet was to die for. The caramelised flan flam be' was addicting...and I hate sweets.
Cannot forget the rack of lamb with lime sauce. Skull exploded!

 

[JAGERVEGAS]

Silver slipper, although I thought the fights were on Wednesday Nights. We drove over from the the one dorm at UNLV and paid off the security guard at the door. He loved that 20.00 from 5 of us. Castaways was always fun and loved the sports book, first male cocktail waitress I‘d ever seen in town. Had unlimited cigarettes on the table.
Stardust had the ChuckWagon buffet for almost nothing, good for us students - All those casinos were nice and small and didn’t have to walk a mile to get in.

 

[ckfitz]

I remember when I was going to college here a bunch of guys went to the Showboat Casino and have their $.49 breakfast at midnight. Yes, I'm that old!

 

[WarthogRebel]

Not to worry. I was around when it was built.

 

[Masked_rebel]

I remember when I was going to college here a bunch of guys went to the Showboat Casino and have their $.49 breakfast at midnight. Yes, I'm that old!

Defiantly the Showboat.. Buffet, bowling... School trips for those of us proficient in Middle school... sitting as an empty lot for so long and then to be filled in with more Strip malls and "apartments"... such a shame

 

[UNLVINMD]

Castaways, worked there when Lee Pete was there, i believe Mirage is there now, it's been so long, i cant remember.
Showboat, i love going to boxing on Sat/Sun afternoons, love it, plus the bowling alley up top, those were the days, i remeber Sunday night buffet for 2.99 at the Mint, lol lol, the days when Vegas loves UNLV.

 

[unlv91]

Barbary Coast. $1.99 Steak and eggs after midnight

 

[vegas50]

Silver slipper, although I thought the fights were on Wednesday Nights. We drove over from the the one dorm at UNLV and paid off the security guard at the door. He loved that 20.00 from 5 of us. Castaways was always fun and loved the sports book, first male cocktail waitress I‘d ever seen in town. Had unlimited cigarettes on the table.
Stardust had the ChuckWagon buffet for almost nothing, good for us students - All those casinos were nice and small and didn’t have to walk a mile to get in.

Jager.. You are correct... Of course that was almost 50 years ago and I suffer from CRS* syndrome..
* can't remember sheet

 

[MonsterJam]

Jerry's Nugget. It's your kind of place!

Or Nevada Palace if your feelin lucky.

 

[bcvegaspt]

Damn you all for making me revise my original selection!

I'm going to say that I miss Jerry's Nugget for the 2am breakfasts that my dad would take my buddies and I to (French Toast was really good there!).

Also, I hit a Bingo at Showboat when I was 21. The vitriol from the elderly people was surprising! They cussed and called me names for winning their game. I still laugh about it.

 

[MonsterJam]

Almost got a job at the Showboat. It was renamed Castaways. Interviewed with three different people including the VP of the department. Was told a few days later they went with an internal hire.

Castaways closed doors like 4 weeks later.

Bullet dodged.

 

[RebelScrub]

Damn you all for making me revise my original selection!

I'm going to say that I miss Jerry's Nugget for the 2am breakfasts that my dad would take my buddies and I to (French Toast was really good there!).

Also, I hit a Bingo at Showboat when I was 21. The vitriol from the elderly people was surprising! They cussed and called me names for winning their game. I still laugh about it.

Jerry’s nugget back in the day was prime good food. Today, they still have the cafe but it’s not the same. The desserts are hella good. The cafe is still open.

 

[Knight Rebel702]

The Lift before Stations bought it and "F" it Up! And turned it into a Wildfire. SMFH

18oz Porterhouse, w/mash potatoes and a salad for $3.99!

 

[ricovegas]

I loved the Imperial Palace cocktail waitresses and Sportsbook and Hitler's Mercedes convertible, Showboat for boxing Greg Haugen was a legend, I hung out with Referee Joe Cortez's daughters Cindy and Sandy great times.

 

[RebelScrub]

I loved the Imperial Palace cocktail waitresses and Sportsbook and Hitler's Mercedes convertible, Showboat for boxing Greg Haugen was a legend, I hung out with Referee Joe Cortez's daughters Cindy and Sandy great times.

I worked at IP in the fall of 1994 as a buffet busser. Coolio tried to sneak in the buffet from the exit but got caught.

 

[UNLVINMD]

I use to bike up to showboat for boxing, love it, vegas was great back then.

 

[UNLVINMD]

Scrub I know you love boxing, best fight you seen live in vegas?
Biggest for me Leonard-Hearns, most brutal mancinni-kim fight, then month later dokes-weaver, pearl calls halt in rd 1, thought riot at Ceasars indoor pavilion, man crowd was angry, lol, yes I am older now! Lol

 

[WYNN or Dye]

What's heart breaking about the South Korean fighter, Duk-Koo Kim/Boom Boom Mancini fight.
After Kim died, her mother committed suicide. 3 months after his death.
And, the referee committed suicide, 7 months after the fight to.

 

[RebelScrub]

Scrub I know you love boxing, best fight you seen live in vegas?
Biggest for me Leonard-Hearns, most brutal mancinni-kim fight, then month later dokes-weaver, pearl calls halt in rd 1, thought riot at Ceasars indoor pavilion, man crowd was angry, lol, yes I am older now! Lol

Well, @TijuanaRebel worked for the NSAC so he got me into some fights over the years.

Alex

Well I happened to walk in to Manny Pacquiao vs Marquez 1 for 50 bucks back in 2004 I dont know how to score boxing but I don’t think Pacquiao won that fight.

Bro, we’re all old!!

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[InZoneU]

Maxim easily. Prime cougar hunting in their band lounge.

2nd would be Vacation Village. Can't beat .10c beers.

 

[Couev]

I worked through college at the Riviera, so that place has a little bit of nostalgia for me. I also liked Vacation Village--it was like a Fremont St place in the middle of the strip. Cheap beer and food for a poor kid was kind of amazing.

Off the strip, if we're only counting closed I probably spent the most time as a teenager at the Fiesta...but honestly some of that bleeds through with the Santa Fe so I can't separate them in my brain 30 years later.

 

[UNLVbro]

Key Largo, great discounts ... had my first Bud Light there.

 

[j. spilotro]

I know Scrub really misses the Treasury.