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Question: What was totally common to see in Las Vegas 50 years ago that you would not see today?Let’s see:People wearing suits to casinos - The early 1970s was the end of the era where people “dressed up” to gamble at casinos. Today you are far more likely to see people wearing wrinkled lounge pants than you are to see men (or women) in business suits on the casino floor.Actual gangsters - The America Mafia was still near the peak of its power in the early 70s and so it was quite common to see criminals from those groups in the casinos in Nevada. While some such Anthony Spilotro (loosely portrayed by Joe Pesci in the 1995 film Casino) were banned from gaming properties by the state of Nevada, most could freely come and go as they pleased. Many didn’t even bother to disguise who they were.Street level prostitution - While the authorities managed to keep it off The Strip and away from the downtown corridor, Boulder Highway and several other areas of the Old West Side were renowned for their streetwalking sex workers. Today it’s rare to see a street level prostitute as trolling for business on the Internet is far more lucrative.“Ticky tack” casinos - The casino boom from the early 1990s until the “bust” during the 2007–2008 financial crisis led to the wholesale removal of many of the older and smaller properties throughout the Vegas valley. Joints which featured loose slots and cheap drinks have disappeared in favor of large scale “destinations” which attract more tourists and thus more dollars.Overt racism - It was made clear to minorities (especially Blacks and Latinos) that they were not welcome in certain properties during the 1970s. While racism is still an issue today, the blatant discrimination that was common in the past is no longer tolerated.A “ticky tack” casino of the past:

The gambling known as business looks with severe disfavor on the business known as gambling ~~ Ambrose Bierce, American AuthorSurely you've heard that you can't win gambling … guess what? Somebody's got to win gambling. Maybe it's the casino or a bookie or some guy with an edge.… Otherwise where would the money go? In poker, a game of skill, the money flows from the bad players to the strong players. It's as simple as that. ~~ Mike CaroGlitter Gulch is for transients, most of them elderly and dressed to kill: old women ... clutching Dixie cups of small change in one hand, the lever of one of Vegas's ... slot machines in the other; old men with plastic teeth ... shooting craps for a dollar, playing fifty-cent blackjack and three-dollar-limit stud poker: wrecks in wheelchairs or with walking frames, the humped, the bent, the skeleton thin, and the obese, cashing in their Social Security checks, disability allowances, and pensions, waiting out their time in the hope of a miracle jackpot to transform their last pinched days.... For the Snopeses of this world, Glitter Gulch is the absurd last stop on the slow train to the grave. ~~ A. Alvarez, from the book Biggest GameThere are few things that are so unpardonably neglected in our country as poker. Why, I have known clergymen, good men, kind-hearted, liberal, sincere, and all that, who did not know the meaning of a ‘flush.’ It is enough to make one ashamed of one’s species. ~~ Mark TwainIf you want to be successful in business, surround yourself with smart people. If you want to be successful in poker, surround yourself with idiots. ~~ Abdul JalibIn the poker game of life women are the rake. ~~ "Worm" (Edward Norton) from the movie Rounders

This is probably the question I get asked most by friends set to visit Vegas.The common wisdom among many locals is that you'll find the best slot odds, in descending order:At off-Strip casinos around Clark County, excluding downtown (such as South Point, Silverton, and some Station and Coast casinos [though I've heard many mixed views on Station casino's slot odds]).Downtown casinos, on and around Fremont St.On-Strip casinos.An oft-referenced study done in 2002 by the self-proclaimed "Wizard of Odds" ranked the following as the best:http://wizardofodds.com/slotsIndeed, billboards and advertisements in and around Vegas for the Palms claiming to have the loosest slots in Vegas cite that study, so they're making the most of its findings.That is a number of years old, though (The Sahara isn't even around now, for instance), but you will notice an underrepresentation of Strip properties there (apart from Imperial Palace, but they've changed ownership since 2002 so who knows where things stand with that property now).There is no real independent authority that tracks slot payout percentages by property. The Nevada Gaming Control Board does, however, keep track of payout percentages by machine type (primarily denomination) and region, with the regions broken out in to Downtown, Strip, North Las Vegas, and Clark County (all non-Strip, non-Downtown, non-N.Las Vegas casinos).You can see a recent report here:http://gaming.nv.gov/documents/pdf/1g_11aug.pdfIt generally confirms your best bets are off-Strip casinos.Beyond that 2002 study, most any other information will be anecdotal.