As the chips turn: nothing can stop Las Vegas when it comes to expansions and upgrades. (Special Focus: Casino Gaming).

Travel Agent, May, 2003 by Gould, Lark Ellen

Las Vegas is changing--again. At least that seems to be the buzz around the town that started out more than half a century ago as a den of iniquity, evolved into a bright and smoky flash of lascivious possibility, elevated into a corporate and clean paradise of prescribed pleasure, stepped up to include families and is finally coming back full circle into a dark and smoky adults-only lair, albeit one with class and candor.

Take this, for example: Treasure Island (TI) opened in 1993 as Robert Louis Stevenson's answer to adventure, Las Vegas style. The property was all skulls, crossbones, lost treasures and action scenes. The visitors came in droves, and to this day the Strip sidewalk is packed with tourists when the pirates and pyrotechnics battle.

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