Las Vegas as it grows.

[warspite1]

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First time I ever heard of David Cassidy.

I'm sure you heard the TV Cassidy's "I think I love you" David was the lead vocalist for this song. You never watched the Partridge family on Television. Might be before your time Orm. It was a 70's Television program.

I can not remember ever listening to "I think I love you" but I suspect that I heard it back then.

Sweden only had two state controlled television channels until '91. Some years before that you were able to get broadcast from abroad by satellite. And in the seventies the Swedish TV did not like to broadcast shows from USA. [:(]

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So does that mean there were NO American imports or just a few? If the latter what were you able to watch? I am thinking of the likes of:

The Waltons, The Little House on the Prairie, Star Trek, assorted Disney "Stuff", Happy Days, Kojak, Streets of San Francisco, Charlie's Angels, and later stuff like Dallas - so much from the US we watched as kids and teens!!

[Orm]

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I'm sure you heard the TV Cassidy's "I think I love you" David was the lead vocalist for this song. You never watched the Partridge family on Television. Might be before your time Orm. It was a 70's Television program.

I can not remember ever listening to "I think I love you" but I suspect that I heard it back then.

Sweden only had two state controlled television channels until '91. Some years before that you were able to get broadcast from abroad by satellite. And in the seventies the Swedish TV did not like to broadcast shows from USA. [:(]

warspite1

So does that mean there were NO American imports or just a few? If the latter what were you able to watch? I am thinking of the likes of:

The Waltons, The Little House on the Prairie, Star Trek, assorted Disney "Stuff", Happy Days, Kojak, Streets of San Francisco, Charlie's Angels, and later stuff like Dallas - so much from the US we watched as kids and teens!!

Just a few. More for the older and less for the young. Definitely no Disney except on Christmas Eve when there was one hour of Disney that almost the entire population watched. They tried to remove that 1 hour Disney but that got so many objections that I almost suspect there would have been a revolution if they had pushed it through.

Star Trek, The Little House on the Prairie some other Western Series. Kojak was on TV as well. Some mini series as well. The 80's brought Dallas and more productions from US.

How the West Was Won was popular in Sweden. And so was Roots.

[Zap]

Another famous but now older Las Vegas performer Wayne Newton has opened his ranch up to the public.

Shenandoah Ranch is now a Museum. The wife and I are going to make the visit. He still lives there.

Its a 70 Million dollar estate he has many animals. Included is a collection Arabian horses.


Things to see

Rolls-Royces, previously owned by Johnny Cash, Steve McQueen, Liberace and Harrah’s founder Bill Harrah

• A gold microphone Frank Sinatra gave to Newton

• The letter Elvis wrote from the Las Vegas Hilton that sparked the Newton song, “The Letter”

• Jack Benny’s Stradivarius (Newton worked with Benny for years.)

• The canoe navigated by Katharine Hepburn and Henry Fonda in “On Golden Pond”

• A collection of Newton’s stage costumes, including a faded purple, western costume made by Newton’s mother, Evelyn Marie, when Newton was just 4 years old.

• Newton’s Fokker F28 jet

• A desk that belonged to Franklin Roosevelt

• Military mementos and jackets from Newton’s service overseas as the USO’s Celebrity Circle chairman

[Zap]

The next time you come to Vegas you may find casinos looking more like game arcades. Casinos are turning to skill based slots. It seems the youth don't find the slot machines as much fun. So to attract them there will be skill games. So the better you are the more money you can win. Funny, they will loose a ton of money before they get to a level where they can win.
I noticed arcade type war themed slots planned.

[Orm]

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The next time you come to Vegas you may find casinos looking more like game arcades. Casinos are turning to skill based slots. It seems the youth don't find the slot machines as much fun. So to attract them there will be skill games. So the better you are the more money you can win. Funny, they will loose a ton of money before they get to a level where they can win.
I noticed arcade type war themed slots planned.

Scary.

Thank you for telling us. [:)]

[Zap]

Hey, Orm Its political season and now Las Vegas is all excited that the Democrats have decided to have the debate at the Wynn casino. One goal of Las Vegas is have the world view LV as a location where other things besides gaming goes on. That's why there is a push for a professional hockey team. The new stadium makes it a possibility.

And for baseball fans. Particularly if you are a Cincinnati Reds fan. Pete Rose opens his restaurant on the Strip today.

[Zap]

This post is more for the State of Nevada. Its population is 2,750,000. Its is the second least populated state in the Union. Only Alaska has less of a population.
Of that population most live in 5 cities. Las Vegas and surrounding cities (2,119,000) Carson City(52,000) Reno(225,000).

Nevada produces more gold than any other State 4th largest producer in the world.

[Zap]

And you thought Vegas was only Casinos. Valley of Fire 15minutes north of Vegas

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Other interesting formations

[Curtis Lemay]

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This post is more for the State of Nevada. Its population is 2,750,000. Its is the second least populated state in the Union. Only Alaska has less of a population.

Nevada is ranked 35th in population:

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_ ... population

Even if you meant population density it's still 42nd:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U ... on_density

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wrongplace

[warspite1]

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wrongplace

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Good idea Zap - try posting a few more times in the wrong place, the wrong threads and the wrong forums, and you WILL get that 5th Star. Attaboy [:)]

[Zap]

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Good idea Zap - try posting a few more times in the wrong place, the wrong threads and the wrong forums, and you WILL get that 5th Star. Attaboy [:)]

Okay, that got a good laugh out of me.[:)] I made a choice of pictures of rock formations that were not from Nevada. So I took them out. It seems I'm not good at Nevada facts either. i got the population comparison wrong. Good ole Curtis Lemay pointed that out. I'll stick to las Vegas news.

[Orm]

Any more, cool, news from Vegas?

[Zap]

Its been said you can't win in Vegas, some do. A resident they call Vegas Dave has been betting on sports for several years now with good results. It wasn't always that way. He had some bad times where he lost all his money and his parents money. They lost their house because of his bad bets. Vegas Dave did not give up but found a way to win betting on sports. Recently has had good fortune winning a 500,000 dollar payday and Just won 2.5 million betting on the Kansas City Royals to win the world Series. How did he do it? He made a futures bet of 100,000 dollars on the Kansas city Royals to win the World Series before the season began. He promised to buy his Parents a new home with his winnings. What happens with most gamblers when they are successful at betting regularly, is that the Casino where he has won most of that money will not take his bets in the future. A crappy but usual tactic of the casinos.

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The big news in Las Vegas is a deal just completed to build a couple factories. Nevada has been diversifying ever since the economy took a dump in the US. Everyone in the state realizes diversity is absolutely necessary.
So now we will have a car plant producing electric cars. And a plant testing a new futuristic transportation system. Hyperloop will build a 2 mile test track inside a tube. They believe they can make a transportation system using tubes that will allow vehicles to travel at speeds of 700 miles an hour.

From the Review-Journal:
"Dag Reckhorn, Faraday's global vice president of manufacturing, said the company backed by Chinese billionaire Yueting Jia hopes to break ground in early 2016 and begin producing electric cars within two years.

Jia, with a net worth of $7.9 billion according to Forbes, owns LeTV, which observers call a Chinese Netflix. He said Faraday is focused on "creating the next generation of seamlessly connected, intelligent electric vehicles and mobility solutions."

Faraday's venture into Nevada comes about a year after Tesla Motors, led by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, began building a $5 billion lithium-ion factory in Northern Nevada where batteries for its electric cars and home-energy storage units will be made.

Also this week, Hyperloop Technologies Inc., announced it will build a test facility for a futuristic transportation system at the same North Las Vegas industrial park."

[Orm]

I thought that Vegas was focusing on entertainment and events. So thank you for educating me. [:)]

[Zap]

Hi Orm, entertainment is still important and 2 casinos are now being built. However, Nevada can no longer just rely on it. If there is a bad turn in the economy tourism is hurt. So 24 hour fun is still the bottom line draw.

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Las Vegas, can't accommodate all the request for conventions so soon the Riviera Casino will be torn down and replaced with an expansion to the Convention Center

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Las Vegas has reached a new level of visitors. We have surpassed 42 million and expect some 280,000 visitors for New Year celebration