I was called to help (consult) on a big print project for a fleet of buses. Had to visit with a manager there.
Couldnt' wait to leave the noise,cigarette smoke and the look of losers everywhere.
I did have dinner a few times at this casino at thier steak house. No gambling!
It makes me wonder what the attraction is about losing money.
Jack
-------------------- Jack Wills Studio Design Works 1465 E.Hidalgo Circle Nye Beach / Newport, OR Posts: 2914 | From: Rocklin, CA. USA | Registered: Dec 1998
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Just completed a large glass etching project for Dover Downs.
Wife is the big gambler in this family. But big for her maybe $100 every few months, unless on a cruise, then she'll budget about $250 for the entire cruise. Good thing about her, is that she usually breaks even or a little lost! Me, I lose, lose, lose, and sometimes - lose!
My biggest gamble is about to pay off next weekend. My son is graduating from WV! So proud of him!
-------------------- Steve Carter {:{) a Touch of Glass 254 Lexington Mill Rd. Magnolia, DE, 19962 PH: 302-335-3170 Posts: 181 | From: Magnolia, De, USA - Center of the Universe | Registered: Jan 1999
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We go maybe twice a year...hey, they're less than an hour away. We each take $20 to gamble with. When it's gone or one of us wins a couple of hundred we split.
About ten years back I did a construction site fence at the Horeshoe. 8' high 1200' long, loaded with copy and pictorials.
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Happy to report that in the last 10 years we have been to casinos 5 times..Total loss..around $100.
-------------------- Dave Grundy retired in Chelem,Yucatan,Mexico/Hensall,Ontario,Canada 1-519-262-3651 Canada 011-52-1-999-102-2923 Mexico cell 1-226-785-8957 Canada/Mexico home
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I find them oppressive. The constant weird drone of all those machines creeps me out. I feel sorry for all the oldsters relentlessly swiping their cards on the slots in Salamanca or Mountaineer. The cigarettes are stinky, but the food was pretty good. Never got one free drink from a pretty waitress tho. What boggled my mind in Vegas was seeing so many young parents pushing babies in strollers thru the smoky casinos. I'm too cheap to gamble. Love....Jill
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We need "all of y'all" to come on up to Reno and help our taxes! Shoot, we'll even give you free drinks and comp a $20 dinner for every $5oo wagered!
-------------------- Dale Weber Weber Graphics 89 Coney Island Dr. Suite 103 Sparks,NV 89431 775-359-1004 webergraphics@gmail.com Posts: 16 | From: Reno, Nevada | Registered: Apr 2005
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Yes Jack, I do signs for them and go once in a while to check out the environment the signs are in. They give us a lot of work and as Dale said they keep our taxes down. As a rule, the restaurants are a pretty good deal if you can stand the noise. Also, there are some pretty good blues shows once in a while at Crystal Bay Casino in Tahoe. Charlie Musselwhite was there a couple of weeks ago. Curtis Salgado is next month, for free!
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I used to go to the Injun Casion near me to buy inexpensive cigars and get a great meal, for a much lower price than a "Buffet" restaurant..well, the honeymoon's over, and the prices are up to all the rest, so no real draw to go...even the big name entertainment doesn't come here anymore...I did see the Everly Bros. a few years back..still sounding great! Charlie Musselwhite...wow! saw him in Milwaukee at Sommerfest..really kick ass!
The best casino I was in was the Midnight Satr in Deadwood South Dakota, Noel Weber Gold Leaf on the windows...fabulous stuff! It's half owned by Kevin Costner and all his costumes from movies are displayed upstairs...
-------------------- Mike Meyer Sign Painter 189 1st Ave n P.O. Box 3 Mazeppa, Mn 55956
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Hey Brent, Charlie M. played for my friends wedding a few years back, then we got behind the scenes at his concert in Santa Cruz, great times. Sure can blow out some blues !
Roger
-------------------- Roger Bailey Rapid Tac Incorporated 186 Combs Dr. Merlin Oregon 97532 Posts: 3020 | From: Merlin Oregon | Registered: Dec 1998
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My Buddy back in Iowa owns one of the best little blues bars in the country, National acts every week and it only seats 190. I really got spoiled back there. Saw just about everybody on the circuit. No slot machines... but the drinks were cheap.
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The only Casino I go to is a little town in northern New South Wales. IT is right on a beautiful river with one of the best RV parks around. We sit around at happy hour with the odd beverage a spin bull yarns with the other retired persons for a couple of days last time there they had a bush poets convention going was great
-------------------- Ian Wilson Signmaker Retired 3 Panorama Drive Toowoomba Queensland Australia may all your troubles be little ones. The man that never make a mistake never makes anything. Posts: 656 | From: Toowoomba Queensland Australia | Registered: Nov 1998
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BILOXI MISS!!!!!! awesome...........if your into gambling. katrina wiped most of em out that was sittin in the water. now they aloww them to build on dry land(semi). we did a nite over there before KATRINA....and we had tickets for BB KINGS BIRTHDAY PARTY!!!! was at the collisuium. YOU WANA TALK BLUES??????????? started a 8 pm........and didnt leave the building till well after midnite!!!!!!! bb king, montel williams as MC, bruce willis on harmonica, doctor john, dickey betts had the whole place on its feet!!!! so many well known blues masters......then after the concert...anyone who wanted to could go to the casino that sponsored this....ALL THE PEOPLE IN THE CONCERT WAS AT THE CASINO...i was standin next to montel watchin him gamble.....was talkin to a blind piano player....who is awesome, and one of the old blues masters.....exicitng evening....and i go to jackson miss...for VA MEDICAL...i want to go to the ORIGINAL juke joint there where all the greats played at one time....
-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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Here in the UK they are just about to start building the first ones and coming from a country where gambling is legal anywhere, every town has at least 2 or 3 bookmakers, it really doesn't bother me gambling is a mugs game and the only people that benefit are the government and the owners i don't even bother with the ridiculous national lottery we have.
-------------------- Steve Broughton Alpha Grafix Signs Lowfields Road Benington, Boston Lincolnshire, England Posts: 315 | From: Boston, Lincolnshire, England | Registered: Aug 2001
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quote:Originally posted by old paint: BILOXI MISS!!!!!! awesome
Yeah, when I lived in Hattiesburg, we would go down and hit 3 or 4 casinos. The last one would be Boomtown on the Back Bay, just because we really liked the buffet.
I prefer blackjack, so the casinos down south have the table games, but up here at Dover, all they have are the slots. I have only been once in the last 8 years.
-------------------- Mark Kottwitz Kottwitz Graphics Ridgely, MD www.SeeMySignWork.com -------------------------- Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein Posts: 746 | From: Ridgely, MD | Registered: Oct 2000
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Do you know that the casino owners do not gamble? That should tell you something.
-------------------- Bill Riedel Riedel Sign Co., Inc. 15 Warren Street Little Ferry, N.J. 07643 billsr@riedelsignco.com Posts: 2953 | From: Little Ferry, New Jersey, USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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