July 30, 2010
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Wayback Post from 2005: Fantasy Vacations
Granted, I’m still not too “active” here on Xanga but I posted brand new writing last entry and got a whopping 4 comments. Which seems strange since the “My Sexual History” series always seemed to be quite popular. That was posted after an anemic entry about Xanga (which got over 60 comments and got pretty high on the recommend page!) Well, now I’ll post a “wayback post” from 2005. This was one of the entries for my Internet Island blogring, and as I mention in the post itself, took quite a while to create. I still think it’s one of my best Xanga posts, and like I also mention in the post itself, I think it’s “featured content” worthy. Let’s see how many comments this one generates, eh? MFN/ppf
Tired of going to Vegas since the family friendly crowd hit town?
Tired of seeing shorts and sandals in a town where a tux and spats used to be de rigeur?
Tired of a place overrun by kids when kids used to be seen and not heard. Or even seen?
Fuhgetaboutit. Spend your “Fantasy Vacation” at the splendiferous new VivaLasVegasLasVegas Hotel and Casino. Come back to the fifties. Come back to life.
You Owe It to Yourself to Click on the Postcard Above to see the Composite in All It’s Glory.The VivaLasVegasLasVegas Hotel and Casino is the antidote to the sanitized “family” version of Las Vegas which has covered most of the city in the past 15 years. Located a half a mile on the other side of McCarron Airport, the new VivaLasVegasLasVegas Hotel and Casino hearkens back to a time when the mob controled sin city and you had to drive by sand and desert landscape in between visits to the famous early casinos.
They’re all here. The original Flamingo, The Mint, The Frontier, The Desert Inn, The Sands, The Dunes, The Thunderbird, The El Rancho , the Moulin Rouge. From the parking lot, which is outside, covering four square miles, dozens of vintage 40s through 60s autos can be seen parked in front of the casino. Marvel at the frontage which includes the signage you remember well. The hotel complex is comprised of all the vintage hotels from Vegas’ past, including the Dunes Tower, and the original Aladdin.
The owner of this “new” resort, destined to become Vegas’ premiere attraction, is Michael F. Nyiri, a reclusive billionaire who made his money by writing poetry and making movies on the internet. He occupies the 15th and 16th floors of the “Dunes Tower” in the “Howard Hughes Suite” year round, in what the pundits are calling the “world’s best fantasy vacation ever.”
Michael loves Vegas, but ached for the “old Vegas”, populated by the Rat Pack and the mob, with pickins for every shady character in town. There are no child care centers in the VivaLasVegasLasVegas Hotel and Casino complex. Kids are supposed to be locked in the rooms, and there is plenty of candy and videogames to keep them occupied while the “grownups” enjoy themselves.The main room, the ”Sands Showroom” is the place where you can experience ”The Rat Pack”, a far less than family friendly dinner show featuring actual clones of Frank, Dean, Sammy, Peter, and Joey. Performing three times a day, (Mondays are dark) the Rat Pack brings back permanent memories of when going to Vegas shows meant something. You won’t find any magicians or carrot topped clowns in the VivaLasVegasLasVegas Hotel and Casino rooms. Pure entertainment is king out here in the desert.
The VivaLasVegasLasVegas Hotel and Casino offers four five star restaurants, with menus featuring 1950s prices. (Tips are automatically figured for 150 percent, however.) The breakfast buffet lasts 24 hours, and costs 99cents, like it should. The food is the blandest fare in Clark County. You can’t even cut the sirloin steak with a knife.
Gambling is easy at the VivaLasVegasLasVegas Hotel and Casino, and you’ll find yourself real comfortable in our seats, which are found exclusively in front of our slot machines.
These slot machines dispense real quarters, and there is never a “wheel of fortune” hawker to be found. Nobody will ever know what a “scrip” is, and the sound of coins is real, not piped in.
Entertainment doesn’t stop with the Rat Pack Show in the main ballroom. The Martini Lounge offers the Elvis and Liberace show, which had been knocking them dead for decades in heaven. Wayne Newton signs autographs at the front desk.
Michael flies around Vegas in his vintage Whirlybird. But guests are afforded a free shuttle back to the strip or McCarron Airport in shiny red 1959 Cadillac convertibles. Again, compensation is included in the bill.
Winners at the actual felt topped craps, blackjack and roulette tables are given lavish comps, and room upgrades. If you’re lucky, you can live like a king, or like Michael, who lords it over his guests like Bugsy Siegel. Speaking of Bugsy, he’s the chief bellhop, and is dedicated to making sure your stay is fit for a godfather.
Vegas has been going downhill since they started imploding the great casinos to make way for the Disneyfication of the city. The VivaLasVegasLasVegas Hotel and Casino brings it all back. Fremont Street has had a revival with the Fremont Street Experience, but the real “strip” has been gone since 1991, when the Excalibur (read: Sleeping Beauty Castle) opened. Now, with the excellently timed “VivaLasVegasLasVegas Hotel and Casino”, the past has never left, and the desert is as new and shiny as it was back in 1959.
Bring the kids, lock them in the room, and come on down to the pleasure that you haven’t seen since you watched Casino on TV last.Visit The VivaLasVegasLasVegas Hotel and Casino.
Michael has made it his fantasy vacation for life.
Ashtrays and towels can be taken from the premises and nobody will notice. (Of course, compensation is included in the bill, as always at the VivaLasVegasLasVegas Hotel and Casino.)
You’ll enjoy yourselves like gangbusters.
I’ll bet on it!This blog entry (was) Topic Post Entry #3.00 for the Internet Island Blogring. “Describe Your Fantasy Vacation.” (This idea is purely that of entrepeneur Michael F. Nyiri, and any attempt to build such a casino in real life will have to include a cut for Mr. Nyiri, who needs this vacation like you wouldn’t believe. Make sure you reserve both the 15th and 16th floors.)
VivaLasVegasLasVegas Hotel and Casino
(The time is now)
If this isn’t Featured Content material then I just don’t know what is..Tell your friends. It took 7-1/2 hours to construct this blog entry, but it was worth it. I pulled about 25 different images off the net, and utilized a great many of them in the included composites. The “postcard’ took about three hours itself. And that’s the real Elvis singing. Well, his clone, at least. He appears nitely (except for Mondays, which are dark) in the Martini Lounge. Steve Wynn, call me! MFN
Posted: July 29, 2010 8:19 PM
Comments (10)
OMG Mike, is your font getting smaller or am I having a stroke?
Hi, Michael,
I noted that you have visited and posted a comment on a post I wrote on previous Thursday. Thank you, I appreciate it. Lack of readership has been reported by others on Xanga, so we aren’t the only ones. This morning I just made public another post on that subject. I had written it Weds. night as it was triggered by a quote I read, but I let it stay in private mode until this AM. I agree w/you re: Facebook. I don’t have time to play games, take quizzes or get involved in other applications. Occasionally, I’ve transferred a Xanga post to my FB wall and also have shared others’ FB posts on my wall. I find some of the political comments there repugnant becaise they are malicious. I don’t get a lot of response to my posts there, either.
I missed your previous on your sexual history because it’s just not my thing to read about other people’s sex lives. I hope you understand. I do like your thoughtful posts on various subjects.which I consider good essays.
~~Blessings ‘n Cheers
The images in this really make it come to life. I really like the postcard, the images blend together so seamlessly. I’ve never been to Vegas so I can’t comment on the changes or the nostalgia factor- as long as I’ve thought of Vegas it’s been the “Disneyfied” city of sin. Though I don’t really relate to the topic, this is a solid, well done piece. It’s much better than most of the front page stuff.
Interesting…I like Vegas. Very cool.
this made me laugh:
Kids are supposed to be locked in the rooms, and there is
plenty of candy and videogames to keep them occupied while the
“grownups” enjoy themselves.
Just lock your kids in their room.
@DonnaLou - I skipped the sexual history post as well, for the same reason.
Dear Mike,
Sorry for the family folk…but I’m still convincing my daughter to get married at the Venitian!
Ann
Hi Mike,
I recall hearing the expression “kids should be seen and not heard” growing up in the 60s!
Thanks for your kind words and appreciation of my Friday Funnies. I have had the pleasure of meeting Donna in person, a neat treat!
I share your concern about the decreased readership here but I am trying to make new friends as many have gone to Facebook.
Take care and welcome!
Mike
I don’t know much about Vegas, I went there once for my brothers wedding. Me and my other brother had to find ways to occupy our time while our parents went out on the town. We’d just wait outside and walk around. My uncle did tell me recently that it’s completely different, and anyone who’d been there back in the day wouldn’t recognize the strip anymore. I sure did enjoy reading this post though. Sounds like somewhere I’d like to visit! Haha. The old cars in the pictures remind me of going to the Route 66 show in southern CA when I was younger… that sure was fun.
Man, there is just nothing cooler than a ’59 Caddy! What a great car. I’ve only been to vegas once, and it was during a bus trip from San Diego to Fargo in 1979. All I saw was the Vegas bus depot at 6:00 am. There were slot machines in the bus depot!
RYC: Yes there are 16 track computer programs and such. I use the audacity program on my computer to record stuff for flatpick friday. I am becoming increasingly frustrated by the program’s inability to sync tracks. When I dub a rhythm track, there is a delay between the two tracks that makes me sound like the worst musician on earth. I actually have to play my rhythm ahead of the actual beat to get it right, and many times still doesn’t work. The MR-8 will not give me that problem, so I will be able to record tracks that sound much more professional.
I’m afraid that I go into instant sensory overload when I drive onto the Strip, or when I land at McCarran airport!