Home, as it is. Travel down Fremont Street for long enough and it becomes Boulder Highway. When you get to Tropicana, you are greeted by this sign. It is Sportsman's Royal Manor, and it's the place I (at least for now) call home. Small one-bedrooms for $199 a week, $796 a month. Doesn't seem all that cheap until you add in the fact that all bills are paid, including cable. You can't get high-speed internet, though...and that's a deal-breaker, so eventually I'll be moving.
The castle motif is carried on throughout the lobby, where they have a lot of medieval crap, up to and including mannequins and a full suit of armor. It's actually a fairly cool place. Or at least the meth addicts think so.
Approaching Nevada Palace. It's a fairly old casino, and is slated for destruction soon. It's been sold to the owners of The Cannery Casino, who are already building on the site behind the existing casino. I mean, how rude. Can't they wait?
Blood drive on Feb. 29th. I can only wonder, since it's the last day of operations that day, whose blood will they be taking?
The reason I'm here. Food. This is the "ranch breakfast" which is served 24 hours a day at the Boulder Cafe. Or was served 24 hours a day, before they started closing the restaurant at 10 p.m. What we got here is a chicken fried steak, some biscuits and gravy, hash browns, and three eggs (over easy, just the way I like 'em). This costs $5.12 after tax, and my beverage of choice is water. This is actually really tasty...bona fide greasy spoon diner food, worthy of the best truck stops in America. I'm instantly disappointed I didn't get out here more often, since it's literally two blocks from my room. The restaurant is full of older people, most of whom have probably been here hundreds of times. I have to wonder where they'll eat after the place closes. It's kind of sad to think about it.
A view of the rear of Nevada Palace, where construction is underway on the new place due to open late this summer. I have to wonder if they'll have a reasonably-priced buffet, or if local blue-haired diners will seek them out as they do Nevada Palace.
In a vacant lot across the street I am heartened to see this sign. I went to Tommy's a week or so back and enjoyed one of their burgers, but they were way out there on Eastern. This will be two blocks away from my chili-burger loving ass. I can't wait.
But it looks like I'll have to wait. This is the vacant lot where Tommy's will be located. It's between the Longhorn Casino and the Wal-Mart shopping center. They don't appear to have done anything yet but plant the sign.
A view of Boulder Highway and Harmon. You can see Nevada Palace and get a perspective on how massive the new casino will be. The entire Palace space will apparently just become a parking lot. It's depressing to see buildings that really aren't that old coming down, but in truth Vegas is all about change. Whatever's bigger, whatever's better, whatever makes money. This is an extremely unsentimental town. Perhaps that's as it should be. If it wasn't, would I be chomping down on delicious Tommy's burgers not long from now? I think not.
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NEVADA PALACE!
Every now & then Nevada Palace used to have 2-fer-1 buffet Mon,Tues & Weds listed on their sign. For 2 solid months we feasted like kings for 3 days like it was Thanksgiving (and sometimes it was - turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes,pumpkin pie, stuffing. All for the low low price of $3.50 per person! Every now & then we drive by and occasionally see the Magic 2-fer-1 sign. My favorite was the swordfish & capers while my husband preferred the meatballs. Ah...the good ole days way back in 2005 when the Klondike actually served decent food and the Skyline had a great dining room which featured porterhouse steak for $5.95 plus salad bar. All gone now, but a distant memory lingers on.
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