This review MAY be a bit dated, but I wanted to document something from my teen years while I could still remember...
December 1978
This was my first trip to Las Vegas as a gambler, an 18 year old at that. I don't know if it was lax enforcement or that I looked sufficiently mature in those pre-mullet days with my foot long pony tail, but my friend & I sat down at a Circus Circus blackjack table.
Back in the day, the blackjack tables had plexiglas cigarette containers so that you could select your cancer-stick-of-choice, order a couple of drinks at a time, and bet the pre-Christmas gift cash at $2 a hand - all very adult-like.
Positives memories:
- That late night drive across the desert.
- $2 blackjack tables.
- Free unlimited cocktails (drinks of choice: tequila w/beer chasers).
- Free unlimited cigarettes.
Less-than-positive memories:
- $180 in gambling losses - a fortune at the time!
- A public *%^$#@#*^ story too outrageous to share!
- That costly 84 mph speeding ticket on the way home.
July 2006
That same friend was staying at the Circus Circus RV Park while I was in town. I visited him at his RV, then we headed into the hotel to get a drink. As we walked through the property, I realized that not much had changed...just as cheap & burned-out as 4 decades earlier - the casino, not ME.