Recently I traveled to Lake Tahoe’s South Shore and while visiting Harrah’s, realized that the magnificent building would be 50 years old in a couple of years. The highrise edifice still dominates the skyline at Stateline and the legendary Harrah’s credo of excellent service, extreme cleanliness and the latest in innovations continues on today. On opening day, 48 years ago, … [Read more...]
Bill Harrah’s Cookie Cutter Crumbles
Bill Harrah thought he’d live forever. Northern Nevada would have been better had he done so. His toys, the world’s largest auto collection, filled several huge warehouses next to the Sparks rail yards. Well over a thousand vehicles spanning a century of America’s expansion were housed there in running condition, including two of the most expensive cars in the world, … [Read more...]
Embarrassing Impeachment
When this was written last week, the house managers on the impeachment trial were in the middle of their last day of presenting their case. The opening part began on Tuesday of last week and the amount of time to be used by Trump’s team was still unknown at the time of this writing. Many observers of the trial thought that Senate Minority Leader Schumer had pulled an … [Read more...]