You know your city is doing something right when this happens. Las Vegas has a new hotel that is proposed called City By The Bay Resort and Casino. The hotel will have San Francisco landmarks such as Coit Tower, Golden Gate Bridge, Lombard Street, Chinatown, and many others.
This also reinforces my idea that Chicago isn't the second city. LA is with SF popping up like this once in awhile like this. Las Vegas has done NY and now they are doing SF, will they ever do Chicago in Vegas? Hell no. Will they do LA, maybe not, especially since LA is just a short drive away anyway.
It is just like how RealWorld did NY, LA then SF and didn't bother to do Chicago until 8th.
This also reinforces my idea that Chicago isn't the second city. LA is with SF popping up like this once in awhile like this. Las Vegas has done NY and now they are doing SF, will they ever do Chicago in Vegas? Hell no. Will they do LA, maybe not, especially since LA is just a short drive away anyway.
It is just like how RealWorld did NY, LA then SF and didn't bother to do Chicago until 8th.
Sorry, but I believe none of those cases warrents any real validity of either city being 'second city'. You're talking about a tacky tourist trap & a tv show.
Sorry, but I believe none of those cases warrents any real validity of either city being 'second city'. You're talking about a tacky tourist trap & a tv show.
I agree with you except for the tacky tourist trap. Las Vegas has done a tremendous job on their theme hotels. Just look at Paris and the Venetian. I would say New York New York, but the Empire State Building and the Chrysler building looks so fake.
Sorry, but I believe none of those cases warrents any real validity of either city being 'second city'. You're talking about a tacky tourist trap & a tv show.
I agree with you except for the tacky tourist trap. Las Vegas has done a tremendous job on their theme hotels. Just look at Paris and the Venetian. I would say New York New York, but the Empire State Building and the Chrysler building looks so fake.
This also reinforces my idea that Chicago isn't the second city. LA is with SF popping up like this once in awhile like this. Las Vegas has done NY and now they are doing SF, will they ever do Chicago in Vegas? Hell no. Will they do LA, maybe not, especially since LA is just a short drive away anyway.
It is just like how RealWorld did NY, LA then SF and didn't bother to do Chicago until 8th.
So, is this your life's work, Silverlake? Debunking the "myth" that Chicago is America's Second City? It's getting kinda old, and I'm sure you have more interesting things to say than this.
Ideally, the entire hotel could be put on springs and jolted every few hours. Then those fake fire socks could rise up and "burn" the city down. Also, the Summer of Love could be reenacted by paid escorts.
Wow this is starting to get sad. They should have made it for all of California at least, I mean NY is one thing but SF? Well they already have one based on New Orleans so I guess this is fair...
And San Diego is bigger then SF but Im not going to complain about it. Chicago doesn't need to be copied and pasted, its fine being real.
I don't understand patterning a casino after a real city, especially one that is less than 500 miles away. It seems that the ones that are patterned after some sort of fantasy are much better ideas.
This also reinforces my idea that Chicago isn't the second city. LA is with SF popping up like this once in awhile like this. Las Vegas has done NY and now they are doing SF, will they ever do Chicago in Vegas? Hell no. Will they do LA, maybe not, especially since LA is just a short drive away anyway.
It is just like how RealWorld did NY, LA then SF and didn't bother to do Chicago until 8th.
only Silverlake is astute and intellectual enough to realize that Las Vegas's construction of a San Francisco-themed hotel further proves the point that Chicago is in deep decline.
I say this with great respect, as Silverlake has always been one of the greatest minds and most articulate posters on the board. He is, no doubt, correct in his observations about the eminent demise of the Windy City. Silverlake has gone on to further his compelling argument about Chicago's race to irrelevancy by observing that:
• flowers come in an asortment of colors
• birds fly south for the winter
• you can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time
• beans cause gas
• crotch itch isn't painful, but it can be embarassing
Aren't all of those cancelled also or are you being sarcastic?
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