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Niagara Falls Reporter | November 8, 2005
CITYCIDE: LAS VEGAS OFFERS UNIQUE SCENT OF LIFE
By David Staba
Las Vegas smells.
Not "stinks," mind you, or "reeks," or any other verb that conveys a purely foul odor.
But it definitely smells.
It first hit me upon stepping into the small casino at the Gold Spike, the hotel in downtown Vegas where I spent a week overlapping the end of October and the beginning of this month.
You can't limit it to any one of the strong scents with which most of us are all too familiar -- stale cigarette smoke, untreated body odor, various bodily excretions, rotting meat, food favored by assorted ethnicities, or the refineries near the South Grand Island Bridge.
And it certainly isn't flowers.
At first, I thought it might just be "the Spike," as the primarily local crowd that plays the $2 blackjack tables and variety of inexpensive slots housed there shorthands it.
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CITYCIDE: LAS VEGAS OFFERS UNIQUE SCENT OF LIFE
By David Staba
Las Vegas smells.
Not "stinks," mind you, or "reeks," or any other verb that conveys a purely foul odor.
But it definitely smells.
It first hit me upon stepping into the small casino at the Gold Spike, the hotel in downtown Vegas where I spent a week overlapping the end of October and the beginning of this month.
You can't limit it to any one of the strong scents with which most of us are all too familiar -- stale cigarette smoke, untreated body odor, various bodily excretions, rotting meat, food favored by assorted ethnicities, or the refineries near the South Grand Island Bridge.
And it certainly isn't flowers.
At first, I thought it might just be "the Spike," as the primarily local crowd that plays the $2 blackjack tables and variety of inexpensive slots housed there shorthands it.
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