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Since the corporate de-theming abortion tragedy, I haven't been in Luxor. But I had to check in again. The buffet that was Pharaoh's Feast was one of my first jobs in Vegas! Circus Circus Enterprises days.
I had to walk into one of the small rooms sometimes reserved for "banquets" since it was there in my first week of work, I had to give a girl the Heimlich maneuver. It was a big deal, that night I realized I changed the flow of history in the town I just moved to and I was also a hero for the night (until I got the corporate cya "call 911 next time" lecture of course).
With all the repainted crap upstairs, it was great to go to an area of the casino where there's still theming, the buffet still looks like an archaeological ruins dig. You know, historically the luckiest part of a pyramid is deepest below the center. I'm sure there's a woman who may have kids of her own ("let me pick the chicken off the bones!") that knows that.
Too many memories of those days. As I walked around the casino, all I saw was what things used to be, those nights hanging out in Cleopatra's after work (not the barge up strip). I know backwards and forwards that "changes" are designed to bring in more money. But they're already doing that with new tenants a "star bump" above what was there.
Employees used to have to park across the street behind the gas station where I met Dan Aykroyd & Donna as they rode into town on their motorcycle caravan for the opening of Mandalay Bay. Gassing our motorcycles together is probably the coolest thing to happen, until I eventually worked at House Of Blues... To get to work we walked past the sphynx which people remind, is facing the wrong (spiritual) direction.
While I imagined the past, I was adamantly reminding myself I came for the future. What is there to do now? What (conceivably) keeps people coming back here, especially the locals? The few times I went to LAX, people still talked about Ra.
On the attractions level, I missed the King Tut museum, and even the Obelisk 3 part experience, "Don't you harm her!" But I admit Titanic and Bodies are good replacements. How the hell they got that chunk of the ship up thru the casino to the attractions level should be a video on display itself.
I still have a lot of Luxor stuff from my first casino employee sale haul when everything was papyrus and hieroglyphic themed.
A big thrill when I knew someone coming to town that wasn't staying there was to take them up the inclinator to one of my favorite thinking spots. Show them the Chrysler building- yes, before the NYNY casino was built. There was a trick to get up there and I was sad that I didn't get the modern counterpart to do it last time.
I used to go out to the pool area when that brunette sexpot from Body Shapers did their exercise show out there. I ran into Scott a few times in passing and he even recognized me when I saw him at a Cinevegas party. Guess his stage name.
While memories spike a 5, all I can give the watered down experience now a 3. Instead of painting crap corporate blue, you could find, restore and bring back the camel Sigma Derby machines. That alone would roll an easy 4. People also still complain about removing the Nile ride. You don't even have to bring it back! Mock up a boat and backdrop and let us take pics of that! That retail space by the walkways could be leased by a couple of big trends, too. (hint: downtown. No, not shoes.)
In one of the lounges I sat, had a beer and ruminated. Sometimes Vegas, believe it or not, is not EPIC. Sometimes, you just relax in a quiet lounge and think while you look around mentally playing "She's A Hooker." Nope, that one's just a big deal back home. She didn't ask that guy where he was staying or do the other 2 telltale things.
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