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The last polka festival at the Plaza Casino Hotel in late Janary was in 2007, the original Las Vegas casino areas. . They are now held in mid February at the Orlenes Casono Hotel. . (Google: Las Vegas Southwest Polka Party) for the flyer. Video by Wally Wychopen
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Bentley Ferrari Lamborgini Jaguar etc. displayed at the front of Plaza Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas Nevada!

www.vegas.com Denise Pernula tours the newly renovated Plaza Las Vegas… For more Las Vegas news, visit, http

Check out the new vid from Halloween weekend in Las Vegas on Fremont Street.

AVAILABLE ON CD BABY: www.cdbaby.com Homage to the original Las Vegas – founded in 1835. Beautifully sung by Brenda Ortega-Benavidez. Written by Jim Terr (c) 2011. Song and video generously sponsored by the Bank of Las Vegas bankonblv.com To see all Jim Terr YouTube videos, enter HYMIEHYMIE in search line. LYRICS: “LAS VEGAS, NEW MEXICO” (“The Real Las Vegas”) © 2011 Jim Terr Blue Canyon Music BMI If I said we’re heading to Vegas, You’d prob’ly say that sounds like fun. We’ll drop a few dollars on poker, Baccarat and twenty-one. But if I said we’ll also go skiing, And fishing in a clear mountain stream, You’d wonder if I had gone crazy, Or was having a beautiful dream. But there’s a Vegas that’s washed by sweet breezes From the mountains and meadows they blow. I’m talking ’bout the real Las Vegas, Las Vegas New Mexico. No big Strip, no bright-light casinos, Just a warm and historic small town. The smell of pinon and burritos, Just a walk from anywhere to downtown. No hot desert sun, but loads of good fun, Where the sun sets with a beautiful glow. I’m talking ’bout the real Las Vegas, Las Vegas New Mexico. BRIDGE: You’ve seen it in dozens of movies, Sometimes for its beauty’s own sake. I’ll be back there soon, dancing under the moon, Or surfing across Storrie Lake. Maybe we should keep it our secret, It’s a magical place as you know. The real and original Vegas, Las Vegas, New Mexico.
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Las Vegas, New Mexico, has the best authentic Northern New Mexican food anywhere. With fine dining, formal meals of pecan crusted trout, enchiladas smothered with green chile gravy, chili relleno to die for, and luxury to exotic places to eat, some hidden, that will please any palate. One of the reasons is that Las Vegas has never welcomed, or hosted national food chains. Therefore the tradition of true home cooking and original recipes still survives. This is a “Quest for Northern New Mexico’s Best Food” brought to you by Venus and Mars.
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We stayed at the Plaza Hotel and Casino this last week. Their toilets constantly made a bubbling noise, like huge air bubbles were coming up through the toilet. On our last night here we woke up to fecal matter and urine all over the bathroom floor. Apparently, the toilet went from bubbling air, to spewing bodily excrement all over the floor. They offered us a food credit for our trouble. Not even sure would have covered the bag that they ruined. It was disgusting and this was unacceptable. It took them over half an hour to get someone to our room to help us retrieve our bathroom things. There was no way I was walking through urine and feces to go get it myself. All in all, we spent about an hour smelling this while we waited for them. They didn’t even answer their phone at the front desk. My wife had to walk down across the casino floor to go get someone. This was a horrible experience and I recommend you stay somewhere else when visiting Las Vegas.
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The Crazy World of Minigolf Tour visits The Swingers Club Mini Golf course at The Plaza Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. For more information, photos and videos from the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour please check out: hamandeggerfiles.blogspot.com
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First video of our trip to las vegas september 2011. Video of the car ride there and of the hotel. Even though I seemed disappointed in the condition of the hotel it wasn’t too bad.

Golden Nugget Las Vegas

History

The Golden Nugget in 1983

The Golden Nugget was originally built in 1946, making it one of the oldest casinos in the city. Steve Wynn bought a stake in the Nugget, which he increased so that, in 1973, he became the majority shareholder, and the youngest casino owner in Las Vegas. In 1977 he opened the first hotel tower and the resort earned its first four diamond rating from Mobil Travel Guide. It was the foundation for Wynn’s rise to prominence in the casino industry. The second hotel tower opened in 1984 along with the showroom, and the third tower was opened in 1989. On 31 May 2000, the Golden Nugget (and all of Steve Wynn’s other properties) was sold to Kirk Kerkorian; the consolidated corporation was known as MGM Mirage and has been the largest casino corporation in Las Vegas since that date.

Although the Golden Nugget was profitable, it was not part of the master expansion plan of the corporation which was focused on consolidating a long stretch of the strip by acquiring Mandalay Resort Group, building City Center, and beginning construction in Macau. Gaming revenue on Fremont Street had peaked in fiscal year 1993. The Golden Nugget was sold for 5 million to Poster Financial Group, owned by Timothy Poster and Thomas Breitling in 2004. When Poster Financial assumed control of the Golden Nugget, they began to upgrade the gambling operation by installing new cashless slot machines and by increasing the maximum bet available at table games to ,000. Their story became the basis for The Casino, a television series on Fox that premiered on June 14, 2004.

On February 4, 2005, Houston, Texas-based Landry’s Restaurants, Inc. announced its intent to purchase the property and the Golden Nugget Laughlin. The sale closed on September 27, 2005.

The Hand of Faith

After the purchase, the Golden Nugget embarked on a 14-month, 0 million renovation project, which was completed in November 2006. In December 2007, the Golden Nugget completed its million Phase II project, which expanded the resort west onto First Street and introduced additional entertainment, event and dining venues. Phase III was the opening of a 500 room, 0 million dollar hotel tower on 20 November 2009 along with the Chart House restaurant.

Attractions

The world’s largest gold nugget on display, the Hand of Faith, is displayed in the Golden Nugget lobby. Weighing 875 troy ounces or 27.21 kilograms and 46 centimeters in length, the Hand of Faith was found near the Golden Triangle in Australia, and put on display at the casino in 1981 amid a number of other gold nuggets.

The casino’s large hotel sign at its entrance off Fremont and Casino Center was removed in 1984 when the casino underwent renovations. The old sign presently sits at the YESCO signage yard.

The expanded resort is built around two aquariums. The largest faces the swimming pool, and incorporates a slide through the tank containing full grown sharks. The smaller aquarium is in the lobby of the Rush Tower. A total of five specialty restaurants were added: Vic and Anthony’s steakhouse, The Grotto Italian food, Lillie’s Asian Cuisine, Red Sushi, and the Chart House Seafood Restaurant. The Chart House has a view of one of the aquariums.

In popular culture

Golden Nugget during the day in 2007.

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In the James bond film Diamonds Are Forever, the casino can be continually seen in the police chase scene.

The Casino, a Fox television series is based on the story of the Golden Nugget’s acquisition by Poster Financial Group.

The Golden Nugget Casino serves as the main theme to two Nintendo games: Golden Nugget Casino DS for the Nintendo DS and the Game Boy Advance.

The Golden Nugget features prominently as a background in the Balrog stage in the Street Fighter II video game series.

The cowboy that used to stand atop the gift-shop sign has been featured in the movie Rock-A-Doodle and U2′s “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” video.

In the episode of the animated television series The Flintstones titled “The Rock Vegas Caper”, the hotel known as The Golden Cactus is a reference to The Golden Nugget.

The Golden Nugget features prominently in the poker mockumentary The Grand.

In the game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, The Golden Nugget is the only casino that is named by its original name. For example, The Luxor is called “The Camel’s Toe.”

In the movie Next, Nicolas Cage is briefly seen entering the Golden Nugget through the Fremont Street entrance.

The Casino can be seen in the beginning of the film Smokin’ Aces in which the antagonist cuts the ribbons for the Casino’s grand opening.

Golden Nugget and Poster Financial Group

Tom Breitling and Tim Poster were the highest profile successful entrepreneurs who profited in the downtown market during the last crisis. As recounted in Tom Breitling’s book, Double or Nothing, the partners agreed to buy the Golden Nugget and had an agreement to sell the property after operating it for only one year. The partners made 3 million in profit called the highest rate of return in such a short time in the gaming industry.. Amazingly enough the partners had a negative income for the year and the fortune was made while total revenue for downtown was still basically flat.

Timeline of Poster & Breitling (Poster Financial Group) Ownership of Golden Nugget

Date

Description

Year 2000

Tom Breitling and Tim Poster sell their web based business for over 0 million

Early 2003

Tom Breitling and Tim Poster begin shopping for a quality affordable casino for their vision of Vintage Vegas

Jun 2003

MGM-Mirage announced an agreement to sell the Golden Nugget (Las Vegas & Laughlin) to Poster Financial Group for 5m

Jan 2004

Binion’s Horseshoe across the street from Golden Nugget closed because of IRS liens

Jan 2004

Poster & Breitling take possession of the Golden Nugget. Introduce policy high-limit policy on table games

Jun 2004

Fox Reality Show The Casino about Tim and Tom debuts but quickly cancelled because of dismal ratings

Jun 2004

Tim and Tom are two of the 50 Hottest Bachelors in People Magazine

Sep 2004

High-limit policy policy backfires, as lucky gambler known as Mr. Royalty wins .5 million on a 2 week hot streak

Dec 2004

Annual report filed with SEC shows net loss of .196m for Poster Financial Group for the year 2004

Dec 2004

Landry’s Restaurant successfully executed a refinancing of 0m
Feb 2005

Agreement of sale entered with Landry’s Restaurant for Golden Nugget

Sep 2005

Landry’s Restaurant takes possession of the Golden Nugget.

Golden Nugget and the Recession

Golden Nugget Casino Division

Like most of the casinos in Las Vegas, revenue at the Golden Nugget has dropped in the recession. The chart below shows the quarterly revenue at the Golden Nugget since it was owned by MGM Mirage, through its acquistion by Poster financial group, and its purchase and renovation by Landrys Restaurants. Frank Martin noted after the last quarterly report that the revenue from the previous year at the Golden Nugget was lower than the year 2004 when it was owned by Poster Financial Group.
References

^ “Golden Nugget Las Vegas Earns AAA Four Diamond Award for 32nd Consecutive Year”. http://www.vegasnews.com/2548/golden-nugget-las-vegas-earns-aaa-four-diamond-award-for-32nd-consecutive-year.html. 

^ “Steve Wynn’s Vegas Vision Turned Into Reality”. http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/Story?id=3650310&page=1. 

^ Skolnik, Sam (2009-02-15). “Golden Nugget runs against economic winds”. Las Vegas Sun. http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/feb/18/golden-nugget-runs-against-economic-winds/. Retrieved 2009-03-13. 

^ Tom Breitling. “Double or Nothing Video”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARmKr0TXnXs. Retrieved Dec 11 2008. 

^ Tom Breitling. “Double or Nothing”. http://www.tombreitling.com/the-book/. Retrieved Dec 11 2008. 

^ Jeff Simpson (2004-01-12). “DOWNTOWN GAMING: Closure sends dark message”. Las Vegas Review-Journal. http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2004/Jan-12-Mon-2004/business/22976222.html. 

^ jdb2414. “High Limits Video”. Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh0pZ_wGr2A. Retrieved Dec 12, 2008. 

^ “Annual Report for Year 2004, page F5″. http://www.secinfo.com/d11MXs.ze4k.htm#1stPage. Retrieved Dec 11 2008. 

^ “Landry’s Press Release”. Dec 16 2004. http://www.landrysrestaurants.com/pdf/pressreleases/press_20041216.pdf. 

^ “Golden Nugget owner sees revenue fall in LV, Laughlin”. http://www.lvrj.com/business/51470962.html. 

Additional properties

Golden Nugget Laughlin

External links

Golden Nugget website

Gordie Brown website

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Business

World Market Center Symphony Park Downtown gaming

Museums

Neon Museum Lied Discovery Children’s Museum Las Vegas Natural History Museum

Attractions

Downtown Arts District Fremont East Fremont Street Fremont Street Experience Las Vegas Post Office and Courthouse Neonopolis Mormon Fort

Medical facilities

Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health

Future Projects

Smith Center for the Performing Arts World Jewelry Center Grand Central Hotel Star Trek: The Experience

See also: North Las Vegas

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