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  • I like to come here for some reason. There a little "old Vegas" history here. It's one of the few remaining casino on the strip that was here the first time I came. It had just been purchased by Circus Circus, now MGM Resorts International. It's located on the northern end of the Strip adjacent to Circus Circus. It's one of the smallest casinos on the Strip. They use to have table games but those went away five or six years ago. It used to be a really inexpensive place to gamble. I use to tell people that had never played Blackjack at a casino to go to Slots-a-Fun to get a feel and to learn how to play Blackjack here because the minimum bets even in like 2007 or so I as just $1. It's was a cheap place to learn. Once you got a feel you'd be ready for the higher minimum casinos. Sad to see that go. The only thing they have now are slot machine and video poker. You can get free drink while playing the slots but it's on certain drinks so, you have to ask to see which ones. Beer is still really cheap anyway even if you buy there. They have pool tables too. They have a gift shop but everything in it is Circus Circus stuff no Slots-a-Fun merchandise. Not sure why. I mean I get that MGM owns it now and they have said for years it would merge to Circus Circus but it hasn't yet, it's still Slots-a-Fun so I feel they should sell that type of merchandise. So I guess you can say the gift shop merged. I talked with someone who had knowledge of Slot-a-Fun and I guess the last owner died and the remaining family sold it to Circus Circus in 1979. This casino opened in 1971 and in the 70's was own by Carl Thomas. He was a mob dude from Kansas City. He was a part of the Civella crime family there. He ended up getting convicted of Casino skimming. The skimming was from the Tropicana not Slots-a-Fun. He was in charge of the skimming crew at the Tropicana. He was sentenced to 15 years but since he turned snitch he got off with two years. He apparently turned snitch on the skimming guys at the Stardust. Anyway, the casino has quite a history and even though it's not much, I hope it doesn't go anywhere. I actually think the place could have some potential. In fact I would like to buy it thank you. I would want to put table games back in there. I enjoyed going back in there and remembering what it looked like on my first visit there and how it had changed. I think the entrance is probably the closest casino entrance of any casino on Las Vegas Blvd. Budweiser was like $2.75 so, yeah beer is cheap there and of course that's important. The place was always pretty crowded when I first started coming to Las Vegas however the last few times there it wasn't crowded at all. It's worth a look anyway. Enjoy it, it's Las Vegas history.
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