Architectural Legends: The Making of Las Vegas Icons with Paul Steelman

All right, I just wanted to tell you a joke-

[laughs]

... as we get started here.

Uh, this was told to the mayor of Detroit at the time when we were building the three Detroit casinos, MGM, Circus, and Greektown.

We were the architects for Greektown.

We're talking about casino jokes, and he wanted one to start his, uh, his speech, whatever the speech was, and I didn't realize it was gonna be on TV.

And I told him, I said, "Well, you know, a man came to Las Vegas and, and he lost all his money."

Yeah.

Oh, terrible.

"He's driving home to Los Angeles.

He's on I-15, and he hears a voice."

"Go back to Las Vegas."

"Oh, my God, there's a voice.

It's, it's calling me." So he makes a U-turn and he goes up, back up I-15.

"Get off at Flamingo."

So he gets off at Flamingo.

"Go to Caesars Palace."

"Oh, my gosh.

Go to Caesars Palace." Pulls into Caesars Palace.

Now he's broke, so he calls his mother, his brothers, his sisters, his uncles, and he gets all the money he possibly can, $200,000.

200,000.

So goes up.

"Play roulette."

Just... [laughs]

[laughs]