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E-499: Making It Awkward

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Random Vegas Super successful restaurants make $20-25 million a year. STK at Cosmopolitan makes almost $50 million a year and Hell’s Kitchen at Caesars Palace generates more than $60 million a year. (Vital Vegas) TwitPic of the week Dunes, Caesars Palace, Flamingo and Aladdin. Those that still remain look radically different from how they looked in 1980. This photo shared by @summacorp shows just how cluttered things used to be on the strip before the Mirage boom started buying up all available land to make super casinos. Today, this same perspective would show off Mekka Walgreens, Planet Hollywood, Paris, Horseshoe and Flamingo as well as Caesars and Bellagio. News E-500 Swingers F1

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