Originally Posted by
mickeycrimm
Mr. Sy’s was on the northwest corner of Las Vegas Blvd and Sahara. In Jan 1980 I quit a job cleaning carpets for Coit Drapery in Santa Barbara and thumbed to Las Vegas which I had never been to before. I intended to get a job and hang out. I got dropped off in front of Mr. Sy’s. The sign said free beef stew so in the line I went for the beef stew. It was a bum rush. I knew nothing of casino gambling then other than how to dump my money. I thumbed out of town a week later saying fuck a gambling town.