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| - Three stars means "A-OK", and Sahara was just that to me, or at least the casino part of it. It was what it was. There was no grandeur, no luster, nothing magnificant remanining. It was a solid piece of the Las Vegas landscape. There was a lot of history there, a lot of nostalgia. You could have a really fun time without risking the kids' college funds to pay for it.
Now it's gone. It's boarded up all around the property. All its contents are being sold or auctioned off. Nothing but an empty shell will remain. How and why was this allowed to happen? What will become of it? What will become of the nearly abandoned North strip even? Which one will be the next to go?
It's a real shame that places like the Sahara and others have been, or are now being, completely displaced by the huge new megaresort casinos catering to the big spenders and high rollers, leaving the working man with fewer and fewer affordable options, at least on the sensational strip. Can't there be a happy medium somewhere so everyone, regardless of the size of their bankroll, can find their niche when want to stay and gamble on the strip?
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