This is it! Continue reading Blasting the Dust into dust →

Early a.m. Vegas settled in to watch the last noise the Stardust will ever make. My sis and I had taken a drive through an industrial area on Highland, just past Cheetahs,across the tracks from the freeway,a few days before and also cruised Industrial Road – Industrial runs right behind the Stardust property. Once we’d set our location/viewpoint, we figured to be camera ready by about 1:30 a.m. Continue reading The ‘DUST’ has settled →

There’s really nothing left but a skeleton; likea dried, empty, long horn skull that dotted the cattle trails of the old west, the Stardustsits silently, forlornly empty and devoid of all decoration, waitingto be blown away into the ever changing landscape of Las Vegas history. Continue reading The Stardust awaits its final moment in history →

The glorious day of implosion and losing more Las Vegas history is set for March 13, 2007 at 2:30 a.m. I’m still trying to figure a way to watch it without being right in the dust zone and stuck in a million other bodies that are going to be there. I watched the Sands go down and in those days the digital camera wasn’t. Continue reading The Stardust ain’t what it used to be →

So…you could be wondering what the two have in common. And you could be questioning who Sam Angel is. My first experiences with him goes back to the early Mirage days. He played very infrequently when I was dealing and when he did, he was a complete pain in the ass. Continue reading The Stardust and Sam Angel →