lol I haven't been there since the 90s! It was a ****hole then, I can't imagine what it's like now.

Yipes, that brings back some memories, scraping chip gunk off the dirtiest chips I've ever seen. Along with the time two policemen came and took away the guy we'd been playing with for an hour.

Gonna miss it , went the last day as I had unused comps. Would still sit down with the old timers before they closed it the first time. Def gonna miss 3am white House runs , and getting comped rooms on a whim. Hopefully the town doesn't go to complete hell as I just bought a condo next to the Trop

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Unless you got the condo for the rest of your comps, I'd be a bit worried about the longterm value.

Condo was prob dirt cheap. IMR, everybody's known the place is headed downhill for years. Who would spend much money on a condo there.

Yes. Got a low price on a condo right on the beach (ocean club towers ) . Got 1991 prices basically. Made all the sense in the world to us to buy here at these prices .

After sleeping on it, I changed my mind and am now jealous of your cheap condo on the beach.

http://oceanclubrealty.com/sjsr/4757...boardwalk-1007

So.... you think people that work bizarre hours for casinos that only an idiot can't make money on caused the downfall of a successful operation? Unions are not the problem here. Greed and stupidity of management clearly is. Would your solution be for the employees to take a pay cut? You know, take one for the team so management can get their bonuses? Christ, this is what America is now, the top gets it all. look at the pay spread between the average worker and white collar. No problem I guess for you? Who do you think spends money in casinos? CEO's? I don't think so.

This!

Nice.

Let's hear some more crazy stories from when it was open!

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Where the sand turns to gold...

I played my first casino poker there as well, and it was 1/2 LHE, with 50 cent pieces for the small blind! Probably put in more hours there than any other casino. Sad to see it go away, but hope it is a foreshadowing of the same fate for it's namesake (and I don't mean the place in India).

murder rate in AC about to drop about 28% with this news.

Had a dream playing with eric lundgrem at taj yesterday , weird.

A basic fail re. the western USA. It's not anything like the eastern USA.

A look at the Electoral College map is a great start: Florida and NY have a total of 58 electoral votes, which is more than the combined total of 11 States, including NV, located west of the Mississippi and east of Cali.

The western USA east of Cali is quite desolate and for good reason, mostly water. If LV dies, it won't be because of competition, it will be because of drought.

Per Wikipedia:

"The number of deaths of illegal immigrants along the border has increased on a regular, yearly basis since the middle 1990s, particularly in the state of Arizona. As of summer 2006, tighter enforcement in Arizona has likely lead to fewer deaths there, but border wide fatalities were approaching the record pace of 2005.

In 2012, the United States Border Patrol found the remains of 463 migrants in the US, of which 177 were discovered along the section of the border near Tucson, Arizona. The Rio Grande Valley of South Texas reported 150 migrant remains found, a jump from 2011 due to the increased numbers of Central American migrants..."

And:

"Death Valley is a desert valley located in Eastern California... near the border of California and Nevada, in the Great Basin, east of the Sierra Nevada mountains... The highest point in Death Valley itself is Telescope Peak in the Panamint Range, which has an elevation of 11,043 feet (3,366 m)...

The hottest air temperature ever recorded in Death Valley was 134 °F (56.7 °C) on July 10, 1913, at Furnace Creek, which is the hottest atmospheric temperature ever recorded on earth. During the heat wave that peaked with that record, five consecutive days reached 129 °F (54 °C) or above. Some meteorologists dispute the accuracy of the 1913 temperature measurement..."

Used to stay there a decent bit this past winter as I lived out of hotels during that time for my job in AC, as the place was in its obvious way to the grave. The Chairman Tower rooms were pretty nice. (Taj Tower rooms were god awful) You played half a shoe of green chip blackjack and they were giving out 2 nights a week, with two nights in a row counting as one night, as well as $100 match plays.

I stayed there on my birthday, where we crammed 7 people into a room. Sad way to start my year, right? I was told (I passed out drunk that night) that I woke up in the middle of the night, called out my friends hooking up in the room, passed gas loudly, and went back to bed. I'd like to say I help set a romantic mood you'd come to expect in the Trump Taj Mahal. I actually enjoyed my hungover lunch at Il Mulino there, however. It was an endearing s**thole.