Happy Birthday Don Laughlin

[Desertrunner]

Turned 91.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Laughlin

[mickeycrimm]

He's still looking pretty chipper. I spent hundreds of comped nights in his hotel.

[MisterV]

The old boy has done quite well for himself, building a little fiefdom down by the river.

Kudos.

[mickeycrimm]

He lives in the penthouse on top of the south tower. He flies a helicopter and has a helicopter pad up there. For a lot of years he had a 2nd home inside a mountain not far away in Arizona that also had a helipad. He eventually sold it. There was a country & western bar on the 2nd floor and he actually would hang out in it.

I seen him in the helicopter many times. He would take off from the penthouse, fly downriver low enough to be seen until he cleared the casinos then would gain altitude and go wherever.