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<\/a><\/p>\nRight next to the Tropicana is this place:<\/p>\n
Who knew they operated a hotel or casino?\u00a0 Not me.<\/p>\n I also noticed this set of signage:<\/p>\n With its helpful electronic portion, better seen in the darker picture below:<\/p>\n I think it read the same the whole time I was in town.<\/p>\n Coming around the corner onto Las Vegas Blvd., I saw a corner of the MGM that isn’t really visible from other angles, and where there is a large lion statue:<\/p>\n As John Linnell might say, “I pale before the monolith that towers over me<\/a>.”<\/p>\n Across LVB is the casino New York, New York:<\/p>\n There’s your visual summary of the island of Manhattan.<\/p>\n Next I headed north on LVB.\u00a0 Here’s a view up the street in that direction:<\/p>\n I soon encountered a guy dressed like Gene Simmons of Kiss, who was being photographed by others.\u00a0 I went to take his picture, and he held up a sign saying that he appreciates tips for photos.\u00a0 So I gave him a couple of bucks.\u00a0 I would soon realize that there are a lot of such people on the Strip, some of them in pretty impressive costumes.\u00a0 Anyway, here’s “Gene”:<\/p>\n The sign in the background reads, in the Kiss font, “Kiss Me, I’m Jewish!”<\/p>\n In a glass case was this statue of – I’m not sure.\u00a0 Maybe it’s a Yak?<\/p>\n The casino called Paris has this balloon:<\/p>\n And some sort of tower:<\/p>\n That thing seems sort of familiar…<\/p>\n The Harley-Davidson Cafe has an unsurprising theme to it:<\/p>\n I ran into several more costumed folks, most of whom I didn’t take pictures of because I didn’t want to tip them.\u00a0 However, I couldn’t resist when I ran across a stormtrooper.\u00a0 When I handed him some money, he said “You wanna be in the picture?”\u00a0 So he handed me a lightsaber, and I handed my camera to another passerby to take pictures.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the passerby didn’t wait for the camera to focus:<\/p>\n Besides the costumed people, there were also occasional regular panhandlers.\u00a0 One of them I gave money to who had a cat with her, sitting in a short sack – the cat looked like it might be recovering from injuries, as it seemed to have bandages around its midsection.\u00a0 I didn’t ask what was up with the cat, but thought later that I should have.<\/p>\n Continuing up the street, I came to the Venetian, which has a “canal” with gondola rides:<\/p>\n They also have a fancy fountain:<\/p>\n In Vegas, even Mickey D’s is glitzy:<\/p>\n Also, while there aren’t many billboards on the strip, I couldn’t fail to notice this one:<\/p>\n Courtesy of the website World Net Daily (no link, as I don’t really want to send them the traffic).<\/p>\n Another thing you run into a lot on the Strip is these people:<\/p>\n They have shirts saying things like “Hot girls direct to you in 20 minutes”, and they attempt to hand out cards or flyers to anyone walking by.\u00a0 If they have cards to hand out, they make noise with them such as slapping one card against the rest of the stack before proffering it, or flicking the card edge with a fingernail as they hold it out.\u00a0 I assume the noise is to get people’s attention.\u00a0 Curiously, none of them say anything to passersby, though a few times I heard a couple of them talk to each other, or on a cell phone headset (these conversations always seemed to be in Spanish).\u00a0 I didn’t take any of the cards or flyers, but I’m assuming that these are for escort services or the like (prostitution is legal in Nevada, after all).\u00a0 The workers who do this (mostly men, but there were some women) are pretty expert at hitting just about everyone on the sidewalk moving around a lot to get people going in both directions (the constant motion is why my pictures of them tended to be blurry).<\/p>\n As I got near the Northern end of the Strip, I saw the casino Circus Circus (which I’ve heard of before):<\/p>\n Sometimes I wonder how the themes for different Vegas establishments originated.\u00a0 I suppose I could look at the websites of the different venues at some point (I haven’t been linking them all here simply because I’m lazy, but they should generally be easy to search for).<\/p>\n Not long after this, I came fairly close to the Stratosphere, which looks like Seattle’s Space Needle:<\/p>\n At that point, I think I was near the end of the Strip, and started heading back south.<\/p>\n I took more pictures of other things on my way south, which will be detailed in my next post.\u00a0 Stay tuned.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Visiting the Las Vegas Strip, that is.\u00a0 It’s a long section of Las Vegas Boulevard where most (I think it’s most) of the big casinos and attractions are located.\u00a0 On Monday night I had a the evening free, and decided to go walking up and down the Strip. 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