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JEWISH ENSEMBLE THEATRE
restaurant is Double Tree Guest
Suites, sister of Guest Quarters
in Troy.
Few people are happier than
Frank Passalacqua at Carl's
Chop House on Grand River ...
Tonight starts Red Wings hock-
ey again ... and his shuttles to
and from Joe Louis Arena for
home games are always many ...
The Carl's shuttles still also take
folks to shows at Fisher, Mason-
ic, Gem and Fox theaters ... plus
major events at Cobo Hall, Re-
naissance Center, etc. ... One of
the more romantic restaurants
around, Cafe Cortina, which re-
cently celebrated its 18th an-
niversary, naturally always has
high bookings for Valentine's
Day.
ALL IN THE Family Dept ...
Congrats to sister Belle Wein-
garden on her birthday ... Be-
lated birthday congrats to sister
Lillian Rosen and brother Mar-
vin Raskin.
THE CAB driver said that
when he came to Las Vegas 10
years ago he didn't make a lot of
money but it sure was a good-
paced place for his family.
Water Club Grill
takes Plymouth
by sea.
Today, the cabbie says, there's
almost 900,000 people and the
population is growing rapidly ...
According to figures, over 4,000
a month are moving permanent-
ly into the Las Vegas area.
The house he bought is worth
"a ton of money" now, but he nev-
er gets to see his family anymore
... "Pm too busy; can't enjoy easy,
relaxed living like before."
Las Vegas has always been a
fast-paced city ... "But never like
this!" he moans ... It has more
than doubled in population since
our cab driver moved there.
Its hotels used to always try to
outdo each other in height ...
Like playing who has the taller
sign or which pays the bigger
electric bill ... It's different today
... Now the games are who has
the most rooms, the biggest casi-
no, the most spacious theme
park.
Winner so fax is MGM Grand
& Theme Park with 5021 rooms
holding the top rung as the
largest entertainment resort of
its kind with 30-story towers and
the world's largest casino, three
football fields big ... Others aren't
far off in accommodations with
over 3,000, or 4,000 rooms ...
Around the 3,000 number is ex-
pected to be the norm ... So many
seem to be expanding and some
will probably hit the magic (for
now) 5,000 mark.
There is a lot more to Las Ve-
gas, writes a special section trade
journal, than just world-class en-
tertainment or gambling ... "It's
also one of the world's greatest
dining places."
Reason for this, it says, is that
many of the chefs in the Las Ve-
gas restaurants are formally
trained in culinary arts, either in
Europe or in some of America's
finest restaurants.
And there's more to dining in
Las Vegas than haute cuisine,
says the article ... Price and
choice' are two of the more ap-
pealing things about eating in Ve-
gas ... And because there are so
many fine restaurants compet-
ing against each other, a first-
class meal is generally less
expensive than in most major
cities ... The multitude of fine
dining restaurants in Las Vegas
cannot be found anywhere else.
When the El Rancho Vegas
Hotel opened in 1941 as the first
hotel in Las Vegas (no, it wasn't
Ben "Bugsy" Siegal's Flamingo
with the 1946 opening), owner
Beldon Katelman needed some-
thing to keep customers in the
hotel after the second show and
dreamed up his Midnight Chuck
Wagon Buffet.
Today, Excalibur Hotel has a
buffet dining room that seats
1,400 people and serves more
than 12,000 daily to make it the
largest commercial dining es-
tablishment in the world ... The
three serving lines at Circus Cir-
cus dish out to about 12,000 a
day, or over 4 million a year.
Nothing modest about the buf-
fets ... Many of the hotels offer as
many as 45 dishes per meal plus
an unbelievable amount of
desserts.
And when it comes to enter-
tainment, Las Vegas is in a class
of its own ... So much to see ...
from a volcano that erupts regu-
larly outside the Mirage to pirate
ships fighting outdoors at Trea-
sure Island to statues moving
and talking at the Forum Shops
in Caesar's Palace ... and so
much more.
One of the biggest "sleeper'' fun
spots is Friday and Saturday
nights in the Celebrity Cafe with
its after-theater menu at the
Debbie Reynolds Hollywood Ho-
tel and Museum on Convention
Drive ... especially Saturday
evenings ... These are the nights
entertainers on the Strip or in
town are introduced by emcee-co-
median Jimmy Caesar and Deb-
bie Reynolds to come up and
perform on stage for her usual-
ly packed house audience ...
Debbie comes in after her show
in the Debbie Reynolds Star The-
atre and wows everyone.
IT TOOK SIX years, but John
Levy finally got his hole-in-one
... Was at the Seasons Ridge Golf
Course in Osage Beach, Mo., with
an eight-iron on the par three
138-yard hole ... John had his ace
while playing with friend Jeff Ap-
pel. _I
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