It's FAN-tastic

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by Junker

$1.99 buffets? Shows for $5.00? I suppose you had to walk uphill, both ways to get there back then too.

I remember seeing Carol Burnett open for the Smothers Brothers at the Dunes. The boys were doing some skit in which Tommy did something stupid (now there's a surprise) because "everyone else did it." Dickie asked him if he would jump off a bridge just because everyone else did it and Tommy replied, "Huh, not again".

I also remember the El Cortez hotel on Fremont St. downtown serving steak and eggs from midnight to 6am for 99 cents.

My grandfather worked in casinos at the Stardust, the Sands and the Sahara. Back in Chicago, he worked for Al Capone in the 20s (I am not kidding).