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| - Not quite what I was expecting at the Flamingo, but that's cool. I figured out that the original one was demolished, and this one replaced it, I guess. It still looks old, but 80's old. The garish colors and gaudy displays remind me of those casinos that old folks go to on chartered buses.
I am not a big fan of the bird theme. There are birds everywhere. Out in the back gardens, I saw a bunch of toucans, parrots, pelicans, and of course flamingos chilling in the back. They looked angry that they were there and couldn't fly off to Caesar's.
The back area also has a shrine to Bugsy Siegal, the legendary mobster. He used to have a room in the penthouse with a secret escape to a car that was always running with a driver ready to get away. He ended up getting killed in a hail of gunfire.
I felt like the landscapers cut lots of corners in the garden, with fake grass, and fake stones around the fountains. The gardens aren't as nice as many of the other casinos, but I guess you don't come to Vegas for the grass.
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