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Post by Jaga on Mar 29, 2006 21:29:43 GMT -7
This is one of the most strange places I ever saw. When you cross the boarder (in the mountains) from Idaho to Nevada just next to the boarder after crossing the steepy road there is suddenly a town. Not really a town but something very strange. The name is Jackpot. This town was created for one reason, so that people from Idaho would be able to enjoy gambling on weekends. There are just couple of hotels..... and the slums. Really nasty slums and trailers were immigrants, probably many illegals are living so that they can do the service jobs in the hotels for the tourists. When I was there I was shocked of the contrast, not any real town just slums and hotels. I donot have a right picture but this one gives some ideas:  |
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Post by hollister on Mar 30, 2006 7:45:30 GMT -7
Jaga,
I have been through Jackpot several times - you are correct it is an odd place. My favorite place was located on the outskirts of two and it was a gas station - I always got a kick out of the name, "Two Stiffs Pumping Gas"
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Post by Jaga on Mar 30, 2006 10:04:01 GMT -7
Holly,
I am glad you have a similar experience since both of us are Idahoans! Lets try to find more odd places all over the world.
By the way, did you ever visit this place for gambling?
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Post by hollister on Mar 30, 2006 10:22:31 GMT -7
Holly, I am glad you have a similar experience since both of us are Idahoans! Lets try to find more odd places all over the world. By the way, did you ever visit this place for gambling? I haven't been to Jackpot to gamble - just drove through. I am not big gambler. I just thought of another strange sight in Jackpot - the hotel that is built right on the state line so one half has slot machines etc. and the other half is without - as I recall there was an actual strip running down the lobby so you didn't "stray" across the line. Ah good times.... |
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Post by rdywenur on Mar 30, 2006 20:38:15 GMT -7
Have you ever been to Atlantic City? Same thing. Boardwalk and front of the hotels are like day and night and scary. Slums on the streets compared to the otherside of the hotel where the boardwalk is.
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Post by justjohn on Mar 31, 2006 16:20:52 GMT -7
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I haven't been to Jackpot to gamble - just drove through. I am not big gambler.
I just thought of another strange sight in Jackpot - the hotel that is built right on the state line so one half has slot machines etc. and the other half is without - as I recall there was an actual strip running down the lobby so you didn't "stray" across the line.
Ah good times....[/quote]
This brings back a memory.
Up in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont there is a town called Derby Line. I had to visit a manufacturer there for some communication assistance and design.
The dial tone for this town was delivered by a Quebec Tel Central Office located in Rock Island, Quebec right across the small stream that seperates the two countries.
Well, as it may be, this particular Quebec location was known for its frequent strikes against the company. The result being that telephone service to Derby Line was interupted frequently. The company requested dial tone services be provided by a US based Central Office and I was sent up there to size up the situation.
The building complex that this company occupied was very unusual. It stradled the Canadian-USA border. If you went into one large office area, there were brass plaques on opposite diagonal walls. Draw an imaginary line between these two plaques and you defined the Canadia-US border.
Well, the cables to provide trunks to the PBX came in through a window modified for this entrance and ran across the stream to the Rock Island Central Office and thus dial tone was provided. Everything else, stations (phones) equipment and whatever was designated either Canadian or US depending on what side of this imaginary line it was.
On a note here: This is about the same time I really began to appreciate Polish Vodka !!!!!!
What a mess this was. I never in my life came across this situation before or since.
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Post by rdywenur on Mar 31, 2006 20:06:25 GMT -7
This is my favorite street in the whole wide world.  |
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Post by Jaga on Mar 31, 2006 21:03:32 GMT -7
John,
interesting experience
Chris,
Las Vegas, right
Everything is done as a copy of something else. The same thing of the same sort I saw in Orlando and Disneyland where everything is a copy of some real thing...
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