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Since peaking in 2006 at $1.2 billion, strip properties in Las Vegas have generated the majority of their revenue, as much as 65% in some cases, from non-gaming amenities likehotel rooms, shopping, entertainment and spas. Further explaining why gaming odds have declined for the player over the last decade.
Twitpic of the week
While I love the Fremont St Experience, I prefer the landscape without it. There's something exceptional about all that signage, densely concentrated, set against a black night sky. No single location or landmark says Vegas like the neon strip. That being said, this week's winner, once again brought to you by @TonyIllia, says something else to me. Something I've never noticed before. It says in 1990, Fremont was tired. I can't put my finger on exactly what it is, but it all looks like it was feeling every bit its age. Maybe it was bad idea to let Binion's and the Golden Nugget absorb its neighbors so they could expand. Maybe it's the excessive use of the orange hue lettering in the Golden Goose and Coin Castle signage. Whatever it is, something was clearly off. And now that I'm seeing it, it's hard to fault those that acknowledged Fremont St needed something to shock the area back to life. Fast forward four years from this moment, and Fremont St, meet your defibrillator in the form of, what else, bright signage to recapture the imagination and patronage of the Las Vegas visitor.
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