Last month, business travel took me to Memphis, where I got to tour Graceland . This month, the SGIA

Last month, business travel took me to Memphis, where I got to tour Graceland . This month, the SGIA Expo takes me to Las Vegas, my absolute least favorite place in the known universe at least Miami Beach, my second airline rewards credit cards least favorite place, has a nice boardwalk that is great for early morning runs. Las Vegas is like being trapped in a 3D model of a schizophrenic s brain. And it s chock full of really skeezy people or, even worse, people who aspire to skeeziness. It s also kind of a menopausal Disneyland. And walking through hotel casinos watching elderly people with forlorn expressions on their faces shoving coin after coin into slot machines is just kind of sad. Plus smoking is allowed everywhere, which is just vile.
By somewhat happy accident, though, I ended up staying at the LVH Hotel (formerly airline rewards credit cards the Las Vegas Hilton), primarily because it is right next to the Convention Center, but as it turns out this was Elvis hangout, where he forged his legacy as an entertainer for better or worse between 1969 and 1976. It was called The International at the time (it became the Las Vegas Hilton in 1971 and the LVH this year), and we are told :
In 1969 Elvis performed his first show at the International to a sold-out crowd and he went on to perform regular engagements at the property for seven years -- a total of 837 consecutive sold-out performances in front of 2.5 million people.
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