Las Vegas Free Fall.
In the final capitulation of corporate take over, the NFL’s Raiders are moving to and the NHL’s Golden Knights are expanding right here in Glitter Gulch.
For now hotel rooms, convention halls & restaurants are empty.
Pimps, prostitutes & drug dealers stare at their cell phones.
Tourists scurry through casinos wearing flip-flops.
Fear. Desperation. Paranoia.
Corporate Vegas can’t respond to the spiraling economy. They are the spiraling economy.
Mob-run Vegas, the rackets, thrived during down times.
We miss the good old, wiseguy days, when Las Vegas was a “We Are The World,” mob melting pot.
Giancana owned the Tropicana, Siegel & Lansky the Flamingo, Major Riddle the Dunes, Detroit and St. Louis families the Aladdin, Sarno Circus, Circus, Doc Stacher the Sands.
The mob was everywhere and everyone knew their place.
Almost everyone.
