Pauline Frommer's Las Vegas
Chapter One
Losing It in
Las Vegas
Sin City will rob you of your time, your money,
and your waistline (but not your desire to vacation
here again)
Las Vegas now receives three times as many visitors per year as
Mecca and Vatican City put together. Pilgrims of a, well, different sort, these conventioneers,
vacationers, gamblers and gawkers come here not to be saved but-let's
be blunt-to sin. Or at least to engage in behavior that previous generations
would have found slightly immoral at best.
What sort of behavior? There's the wanton gluttony of Vegas, with its chocolate
fountains, meals that cost more than one's rent, endless buffets groaning
under the weight of their fat content.
Lust is as big a money-maker, with a third of the casinos on the Strip supporting
some sort of T&A show, and cocktail waitresses squeezed into costumes that
wouldn't have been seen outside a bordello in, say, the 1930s and '40s.
Sloth is celebrated with architecture and attractions that are proudly plagi ... read full excerpt from Pauline Frommer's Las Vegas ebook
