Heir To Magic

Okay, I am happy.  I went down to the casino and picked up the $25 gambling coupon that I got for checking into the Circus Circus and gave them my e-mail address for another $5 in play, so I got $30 worth of play credits from Circus Circus.  Went looking for a quarter machine and found a penny one that had a dragon theme to it.  I was caught, I knew that machine was the one for me.  I mean, knights and dragons! What more do you want?  So I played the $30 out on that machine, started with just $1 in case I did not like it then kept playing a little more and a little more and just stuck with that same machine.

I know I was bad in that I did not play the max amount, but I wanted to have fun for as long as I could before I came back up to watch them demolish the Frontier.  By the time I walked away from playing the machine I had hit several bonus rounds, where knights jousted (my black knight kicked ass on the white knight more than 8 out of 10 times. And I made my way through three dragon mazes.  First one I made to the end, but did not get the big treasure, second time the dragon caught me.  Third time I got the key to the treasure and maded $5 in bonuses for that alone, in addition to the money I had from the maze and the money from play.  That one was nice.

I took Kenny Rogers’ advice and did not count my money while I was sitting at the tab le, cased my collected slips in and went back to my room and added it all up – I walked away from the penny slot with $49.90.  And I did not take all the winnings I could have, I had played some of it back into the machine. 

And I still get a free after dinner show in a little while when they implode the Frontier Hotel.  I was just looking, it is 1 a.m. and the police have began blocking streets off, I can see the flashing lights on top their cars.  An hour and a half to go before the Frontier is no more.  :::whines::: I miss it already.

I am sitting here at the desk in my room in the Skyrise tower at Circus Circus waiting to see if they really are going to be imploding the frontier at 2:30 in the morning.  That is the word I have been getting from the taxi drivers around here, and me and the woman in the business center looked it up online and it looked like what their plans were.  Or at least the page said as long as thier plans were approved, but I think it would have been cancled by this afternoon if the plans were not going to be gone through with.

This is not just a hotel that is passing away, it is a part of America.  Opened in 1942 the Wild West themed Frontier was the first themed casino on the Las Vegas Strip.  More than that, I understand from what I have been reading that it was at the Frontier that Las Vegas was introduced to Elvis Presley when he  performed in Las Vegas for the first time at the Frontier in 1956.

MSNBC is advertising that they will be airing the implosion live on News 3 in Las Vegas – that is channel 22 if you are at the Circus Circus tonight.

I will be recording it with my little camera from my window at Circus Circus.  Should be one of the best seats in the city for viewing this event.  This is my view out onto the Frontier:

It is all primed with explosives now and ready to go off into the sunset. The strip will not be the same without the Frontier being here, which makes me glad that I was able to see it one last time before it was demolished.

There are some things that can never be errased from the hearts of those who have known Vegas for decades and one of those things will be the Frontier.  I for one shall be saddened to see it follow the cowboys along that dusty trail into the sunset, and hold memories of it as dearly as I hold the memories I have of cowboys.

Blog World Expo is over, PostieCon is now building up to next year, and I am exhausted from last night and all of this week.  I am more than ready for some quiet time in my room working.  Well… maybe not so quiet…

This is a picture of the Frontier Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas Nevada.

This is actually a before shot, because I have found out from the taxi drivers that the Frontier is scheduled for demolition on Tuesday morning at 2 a.m. It looks like this is the view I will have of things at two in the morning on Tuesday when they demolish it.  Yup.  I get front row seatting to watch the fall of a Las Vegas landmark.  I have mixed feelings about that, since I love the Frontier, I really hate to see it be torn down but…. I’m glad it sounds like I’ll get to see it happening.  I’ve never watched a building get demolished before.

And yes, I know, I have not uploaded pictures yet – I’ll get that done when I get home and have time to unwind – I swear.