The world keeps changing, not always for the better…

Read some sad news yesterday – after decades, the Liberace museum in Las Vegas has decided to close their doors, due to declining attendance. During our first trip to that delightful city (a decade or so ago) that was a stop among many of the sites we chose to take in, and looks like it was a good thing we did!

During that same trip, we made the (considerably lengthy) trek over to the Las Vegas Hilton, hoping to see the Elvis statue reported to be on display. At the time, the hotel was remodeling, and ever since, it would appear that the statue has left the building.

The city has lost the White Castle that was right on the strip (which actually did have a rather raggedy, flea-bitten Elvis statue outside), plus innumerable historic hotels, bulldozed to make way for shiny new mega-resorts – allowing for multiple Starbucks, certainly convenient, buy somewhat lacking replacing all those other features in a city known for entertainment and dazzle.

If you want to catch the Liberace museum before they shutter their doors, get down to Vegas before October. It is something to see, even just for the kitsch factor!

Chow for now!!