You know I miss the little things about Vegas from the old days. I miss Little Caesars, Churchill Downs, Gary Austin’s, Silver Slipper and as you pointed out the original Leroy’s. I miss the days when the board at the Stardust was turned by real human hands. I still remember when the number change would be called over the P.A. and you’d see the guy’s silhouette behind the big board high above open up those huge doors and manually change the number. Shoot I’m so old I remember when a ticket writer did just that and literally wrote out your ticket.
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Vic
Those boards, their conception (Lefty Rosenthals) and the crew who worked up there is a story in itself. Lefty was way ahead of the times. Those boards were an absolute work of genius, espicially the horse boards.
There are many hillarious storys from "up there" but probably the funniest involved Bobby "the beard" LaPore who worked in the sports board room, at least till this happened. It was a Friday, Bobby puts the following message on the boards, locks up and leaves:
REAGAN ENDS WELFARE: CREATS 5,000 NBA TEAMS
there's many more.....Scotty