Time Has Slipped

Gentle Readers,

Las Vegas may be the very epitome of creative destruction.....

Elvis made his Las Vegas debut at the Frontier, second resort built on the strip. No, despite the outright fabrication that was Warren Beatty's abject crap of a movie, The Flamingo was not the first resort on the strip. Like much of our lives, the story of Bugsy Siegel and the Flamingo is ever so much more intriguing than the shallow fantasy of a screenplay that became the movie Bugsy.

Oh, TWC is harsh, Bugsy the movie wasn't entirely filled with inaccuracies, the Flamingo existed, Virginia Hill was real, and somebody shot Bugsy Siegel. But beyond that......

Thought me and Mrs TWC enjoyed a leisurely breakfast of Eggs Benedict by the pool at the Frontier on our honeymoon, but now I'm thinking it was the Desert Inn.

TWC promised Ms Châtelaine that this was much cooler than it turned out. That's the inherent problem with guy-promises. IRS calls it substance v form.

As Ever,

TWC

Comments

[Lone Chatelaine]

I think it's very cool! And I'm loving all those pictures of Elvis. I've had breakfast by the pool at the Frontier too. It was back in the early 80s when I was there with my parents. I was still to young to really have fun in Vegas, but I shopped a lot, and that always makes a teenage girl happy. I saw the Siegfried and Roy show at the Frontier.

I love old Vegas. Love reading about, seeing films about it, photos, all the memorabilia...I wish I could have been there in the 60s. That's when it rocked. When they knocked the Sands down I cried.

I've never seen that Bugsy movie, though. I think I figured it would be crap.

Thanks, TWC :)

[TWC]

Thanks Ms C, I appreciate the kind words. I don't really have the kind of camera that can make the juxtaposition of the Wynn with the old Frontier sign dance. I'm not great with Photoshop either so I usually do not do much more than a little cropping.

I agree that Las Vegas is a fascinating place. I wandered around the Sands for a while just before they blew it up. Rode the elevator up, wandered the hallways, looked at the pictures, tried to get into some of the places where nosy people like me aren't allowed. Plus, got some matchbooks. :-)