A photo of the marquee for Siegfried & Roy's 1981 opening at Frontier hotel-casino is shown at Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health on Siegfried's 79th birthday on Thursday, June 14. Siegfried & Roy, Las Vegas we sat in the Pit, this tiger ran right next to me, most incredible show of all time! The entire Siegfried and Roy thing-before and after the accident! To rise above what seems impossible, first one must believe.Siegfried and Roy Siegfried & Roy 1 photo from R.
1987: Steve Wynn signs Siegfried and Roy to an impressive contract. In May 1987, nine years after the entertainers opened their first permanent show at the Stardust Hotel and Casino, resort.
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rdw4potus
I suspect that rdw4potus needs to get his collection complete before he gets married, or it'll never be complete.
I'm trying to be strategic at this point. Can I get the girl to come with me to indian casinos in Oklahoma? No? Better go now. Can I get the girl to road trip through beautiful northern california and oregon? Yes, ok, wait...:-)
'So as the clock ticked and the day passed, opportunity met preparation, and luck happened.' - Maurice Clarett
buzzpaff
A Man With a Plan !
Johnzimbo
I'm trying to be strategic at this point. Can I get the girl to come with me to indian casinos in Oklahoma?
Make sure she is in pristine condition and borrow Doc's UV light to check for hidden tattoos hehe
rdw4potus
What a wonderful honeymoon that would be, driving from casino to casino.
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I hear divorces in Nevada are cheap and easy.
Welllllll, if I drag her with me to Battle Mountain NV to get that chip, both of these statements could come into play:-)
'So as the clock ticked and the day passed, opportunity met preparation, and luck happened.' - Maurice Clarett
buzzpaff
Add getting a new chip to your collection and hit the TRIFECTA !
Doc
State: Nevada
City: Las Vegas
Casino: Mirage
The Mirage casino was opened by Steve Wynn in 1989 and is commonly considered a milestone in the evolution of the strip – a new, luxurious casino-hotel that turned around the decline in visitors to the strip. It was the most expensive casino-hotel ever constructed.
My wife and I never attended the Siegfried and Roy show the years it played at the Mirage, but we did visit the Secret Garden one time, and we always liked the white tiger habitat beside the corridor to the southern entrance/exit to the strip. That habitat, like the lion habitat at MGM, is now history, having been replaced by a direct revenue generator – a burger restaurant. We ate there once, but I would have drawn more pleasure from spending the same amount of time watching the tigers. (I know – they wouldn't have made any money off my watching the tigers, just as they never made a cent off my watching the lions. Except such things did get me inside the doors, and I usually did spend/play some while I was there.)
Inside the Mirage, there are two shows that my wife and I have attended: One visit to 'Love' by Cirque du Soleil and two visits to see Terry Fator, the ventriloquist-winner of America's Got Talent. Very different forms of entertainment, but we thoroughly enjoyed both. For free indoor viewing/entertainment, there is a small but nice atrium just inside the front entrance and a very nice aquarium behind the hotel check-in desk. Unfortunately, you cannot get close to the glass as you may at the aquariums in the Caesars Forum Shops or at the Silverton.
Outside of the building, also for free, the Mirage offers an hourly-in-the-evening volcano eruption. This was an original attraction at the Mirage and was re-worked and improved in both 1996 and 2008. One of the sideshows that I like about the volcano is watching the ducks that live and nest in and around the pond. As the show begins, there is some low rumbling from the sound system, and the ducks obviously have learned what is coming. They don't fly away, but they do scoot – even a mother with a trailing of ducklings – to the far end of the pond. There, they are safe when the 'lava' flames start erupting from the water at the attraction end of their abode. The tourists, of course, don't have that much sense and try to get their viewing from as close to the action as possible. They wind up experiencing some significant thermal radiation before the show is over.
The chip shown below is a dark blue Paulson chip with four white edge inserts. The outer ring of the chip has 'Mirage' molded in twice, plus two five-tree groves of palm trees. The center inlay also has the five palm trees. The inlay is oversized, but since the outer portion is clear (with some texture) it does not noticeably intrude on the outer ring. I thought that all Mirage chips since the casino opened had used this same mold, with different clay colors, different edge inserts, and different center inlays. However, the MOGH catalog shows a poker room chip with the Paulson RHC design. I suppose there could be other exceptions.
As with several other recent chips, the UV light reveals the hidden Paulson hat and cane logo on the center of this chip. The MOGH catalog indicates that there are two almost-identical versions of this chip, one with the short cane version of the hidden logo and one with the long cane version, like mine. Both were issued in 1996. There are two other Mirage chips, issued in 1989 and 2009, that use this same chip but with different center inlays.
City: Las Vegas
Casino: Mirage
The Mirage casino was opened by Steve Wynn in 1989 and is commonly considered a milestone in the evolution of the strip – a new, luxurious casino-hotel that turned around the decline in visitors to the strip. It was the most expensive casino-hotel ever constructed.
My wife and I never attended the Siegfried and Roy show the years it played at the Mirage, but we did visit the Secret Garden one time, and we always liked the white tiger habitat beside the corridor to the southern entrance/exit to the strip. That habitat, like the lion habitat at MGM, is now history, having been replaced by a direct revenue generator – a burger restaurant. We ate there once, but I would have drawn more pleasure from spending the same amount of time watching the tigers. (I know – they wouldn't have made any money off my watching the tigers, just as they never made a cent off my watching the lions. Except such things did get me inside the doors, and I usually did spend/play some while I was there.)
Inside the Mirage, there are two shows that my wife and I have attended: One visit to 'Love' by Cirque du Soleil and two visits to see Terry Fator, the ventriloquist-winner of America's Got Talent. Very different forms of entertainment, but we thoroughly enjoyed both. For free indoor viewing/entertainment, there is a small but nice atrium just inside the front entrance and a very nice aquarium behind the hotel check-in desk. Unfortunately, you cannot get close to the glass as you may at the aquariums in the Caesars Forum Shops or at the Silverton.
Outside of the building, also for free, the Mirage offers an hourly-in-the-evening volcano eruption. This was an original attraction at the Mirage and was re-worked and improved in both 1996 and 2008. One of the sideshows that I like about the volcano is watching the ducks that live and nest in and around the pond. As the show begins, there is some low rumbling from the sound system, and the ducks obviously have learned what is coming. They don't fly away, but they do scoot – even a mother with a trailing of ducklings – to the far end of the pond. There, they are safe when the 'lava' flames start erupting from the water at the attraction end of their abode. The tourists, of course, don't have that much sense and try to get their viewing from as close to the action as possible. They wind up experiencing some significant thermal radiation before the show is over.
The chip shown below is a dark blue Paulson chip with four white edge inserts. The outer ring of the chip has 'Mirage' molded in twice, plus two five-tree groves of palm trees. The center inlay also has the five palm trees. The inlay is oversized, but since the outer portion is clear (with some texture) it does not noticeably intrude on the outer ring. I thought that all Mirage chips since the casino opened had used this same mold, with different clay colors, different edge inserts, and different center inlays. However, the MOGH catalog shows a poker room chip with the Paulson RHC design. I suppose there could be other exceptions.
As with several other recent chips, the UV light reveals the hidden Paulson hat and cane logo on the center of this chip. The MOGH catalog indicates that there are two almost-identical versions of this chip, one with the short cane version of the hidden logo and one with the long cane version, like mine. Both were issued in 1996. There are two other Mirage chips, issued in 1989 and 2009, that use this same chip but with different center inlays.
DJTeddyBear
I don't know if I've noticed this on prior chips, but the inserts on the Mirage chip look like they have been painted on. I.E. On your chip, they are nice and white in the impression of the mold, but are faded / worn away on the surface.Interestingly, the two Mirage chips I own have the opposite effect. The white is nice on the surface, but dark in the impression. I don't think that's due to dirt. I'm more inclined to think that the white marks were painted on prior to the impression being made. I know that's a lame theory. By contrast, I'd then think that the white was pained on afterwards for your chip. Yeah, I know, still a lame theory.
On the other hand, on all three of these chips, the white has a perfect border with the inlay impression. Further evidence that these are not cuts and inserts.
My two chips are different in another way too: Either my second chip has seen a lot more wear & tear, or the two chips used different methods of impressing the inlay into the chip.
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rdw4potus
Here's my Mirage chip. There are 12 (!) inserts. I originally collected one with a Terry Fator advertisement, and I swapped that out for this one in March when I drove through Vegas on my way from Beatty to LA.
'So as the clock ticked and the day passed, opportunity met preparation, and luck happened.' - Maurice Clarett
Nareed
What's with the very unnatural, and non-matching, palm tree colors? They clash horribly with the chip colors, and they look like a five-year old painted them with crayons.
BTW, this thread is giving me a sense of how many Vegas casinos I've visited but never played in. For all that I spread my play around, I tend to wind up playing in only a few places.
BTW, this thread is giving me a sense of how many Vegas casinos I've visited but never played in. For all that I spread my play around, I tend to wind up playing in only a few places.
DJTeddyBear
Here's my Mirage chip. There are 12 (!) inserts.
Siegfried And Roy Update
This further causes me to think the 'inserts' are painted stripes.Are Siegfried And Roy Married
They look more like two sets of three parallel stripes. And these also make a perfect border with the inlay insert impression.
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What's with the very unnatural, and non-matching, palm tree colors?
Unnatural? As in, you'd never see them in real life? As in imaginary? Kinda like a mirage?Mirage. Get it?
For what it's worth, if you didn't already realize it, that's their logo.
Superstitions are silly, childish, irrational rituals, born out of fear of the unknown. But how much does it cost to knock on wood? 😁 Note that the same could be said for Religion. I.E. Religion is nothing more than organized superstition. 🤗
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