Kevin Roberts...passed away a few years ago..fell on head at home and died..was hanging out and betting at AC...good man met him at Little Caesars back in 1998..i worked there till 1993...Kevin, Harry O and Mel sweating the ticker every night..Gene Maday one of the funniest and sharpest person i ever met..One day " round robin Jack" makes a comment that Montana Mel has one brain cell of his..Gene says to him "Who has the other one"..then the day he dropped his brought from home salad on the floor starts scooping it back in the bowl and says top part is still good..
Somehow I just wandered into this thread again - Happy I did - I was hysterical laughing reading how Sam angel berated Russian team - they probably needed an interpreter trying to find out what the word Fuck meant - your right Viejo these threads should never die - what a difference in Vegas then and now - I wandered around Vegas and probably everyone I knew is gone - viejo are the girls in Thailand u know still fully employed ��
Coffee tea, it's late 2018, but I guarantee that Mayday's heirs are still wiping coconut oil off that bill counter machine..that square-up was about 300K total between the NYC and La ends combined..had to abandon the goopy machine in the end and hand count it.
I can still see in my minds eye Blackie and Gene just shaking their heads..and hear Artie, Dee, or whoever eventually picked it up..saying WTF?
I can still see in my minds eye Blackie and Gene just shaking their heads..and hear Artie, Dee, or whoever eventually picked it up..saying WTF?
Skinny Dugans is still alive and modestly thriving. Its now owned by Terry Caudill, who also owns the Four Queens Hotel and Casino and Binion’s. The Tap House is just up the street and also still alive. Not much has changed at The Tap House; its still caters to the Browns and Ohio State. Weekends are busty for both establishments. Our Lady is alive and well. Many of the families in the area still frequent the church; however, now its predominately their kids and grand kids going to church. Frankies (on Charleston) is now an award winning Tiki Bar, which kept the name Frankies, and rebranded to Frankies Tiki Room. The Huntridge Bar remains operational and unchanged. Further West on Charleston, there was a bar named Boodles, which sold about 2 years ago to Mike Kelly; the same Mike Kelly (now deceased) that owned and operated Kellys Casino. His son is the proprietor of Kellys; formally Boodles.
Everything on the strip has changed since I've been here and Derrick Stevens and his brother are largely in control of Fremont Street, as they now own the majority of hotel/casinos down there, along with the number of corresponding board seats.
I love the reflection of the past found in this thread. It really makes me thankful that people too so many pictures of Vegas in the 60s, 70's and 80's, as its hard to fathom just how quick Vegas has changed.
Unrelated, can anyone make out the name of the person Billy Walters is playing golf with in his 60 Minutes interview? Is it Gene (something)? What casino did he own/operate?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6FAUQ6SFKM
Thanks in advance and keep the stories flowing.
Everything on the strip has changed since I've been here and Derrick Stevens and his brother are largely in control of Fremont Street, as they now own the majority of hotel/casinos down there, along with the number of corresponding board seats.
I love the reflection of the past found in this thread. It really makes me thankful that people too so many pictures of Vegas in the 60s, 70's and 80's, as its hard to fathom just how quick Vegas has changed.
Unrelated, can anyone make out the name of the person Billy Walters is playing golf with in his 60 Minutes interview? Is it Gene (something)? What casino did he own/operate?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6FAUQ6SFKM
Thanks in advance and keep the stories flowing.
