Right. Isn’t that the reason they give you free drinks?
We’re getting a bit afield, but I think I can tie it back!
The issue with a lot of Colorado Casinos is that they’re, IMHO -bad- at the comforts, compared to the long established gambling areas in other parts of the nation. They were more recent, a lot of them were sucked in by the thought of easy money but weren’t well managed.
Just throw up a bunch of gambling and wait for the money to roll in seemed to be the expectation, rather than building (and then taking advantage of!) a true service industry. At least, that is what a lot of the arguments and debates were about years ago when I was spending time in the Leadville community and they were considering it.
So, for people used to the gambling meccas like Vegas or some of the well established NA Casinos, where everything you could imagine was available at need (for a premium, natch) - the Colorado Casinos may well be bare bones.
Or again, in a major casino, creature comforts would be something you’d see every day, but were NOT in many Colorado Casinos. (working it back to the OP!).
Yeah, compared to Vegas for sure. Not really a gambler, but will go to a bar in Central City about once a year and meet a good friend. She lives there.
Sit at the bar, play electronic poker get free beer (we tip heavily). Dostal Alley it’s called, they have great great pizza.
The town of Central City is a bit… eclectic. But many mountain towns are. My friend lives in a ginger bread house that was built in ~1860. On the front are two doors, that’s because if you are viewing a corpse, you are suppose to come in one door, and out the other. The deceased would be laid out in the parlor.
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To be fair, they are striking and lovely birds.
Mrs. SMV and I visited Colorado about a year after they had legalized cannabis, and we were struck by the number of dispensaries we found. On the highway from Boulder back to the airport in Denver, we noticed a pungent skunk odor permeating the air along the interstate. We realized in was coming from a large warehouse, a distribution center for dispensaries. That has to be the most laid-back warehouse crew in the country. But I’ll bet the vending machine in the break room is always empty.
They are also assholes. My cardinals and little gray birds hate them, so do my dogs, and I don’t think their annoying cousins the crows are thrilled with them either.