Wednesday, June 28, 2006

klondike closes its doors.

"I got the feeling of an old-time joint. There were cheap rooms, cheap and plentiful food and everyone knew your name. In that sense we lose a piece of the old-fashioned Las Vegas, when there was more of a feeling of personal friendliness. The town was smaller and the casinos were smaller. You didn't need a computer to know that Joe liked to bet $20 on 20 at the roulette wheel."
-Michael Green, author of "Las Vegas: A Centennial History" and a history professor at the Community College of Southern Nevada, on the Kondike Hotel, which closed its doors this week.

Read all about it: CASINO CLOSURE: Well-worn Klondike bid a warm farewell

Honestly, I have no clue where this place is, or if I ever even saw it.