{"id":39209,"date":"2024-02-14T18:50:54","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T02:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/?p=39209"},"modified":"2024-02-14T19:38:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T03:38:38","slug":"15-surprising-awkward-things-you-didnt-know-about-downtown-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/15-surprising-awkward-things-you-didnt-know-about-downtown-las-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"15 Surprising, Awkward Things You Didn’t Know About Downtown Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Downtown Las Vegas is a world all its own. We worked there for several years, and it’s been our go-to place to gamble and carouse for two decades.<\/p>\n

Our obsession has given us an intimate knowledge of the business and culture of downtown, along with access to things you may not know, many of them surprising and awkward.<\/p>\n

Below are some of our favorites. If we turn up missing, you’ll know why.<\/p>\n

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Something something about Fremont Street not being representative of all of downtown blah blah, along with a perfunctory mention of the Arts District or whatever.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

1. Costumed characters are often sex offenders.<\/h3>\n

There’s a low bar to “perform” at Fremont Street Experience (FSE). Fremont Street is a public street, so Fremont Street Experience has virtually no control over the buskers. A while back, law enforcement did a sting and found many of the costumed characters (often appealing to children) were registered sex offenders. Yes, Fremont Street Experience gets a variety of complaints about buskers. Would Fremont Street Experience be better if they were able to curate all the performers on the street? Of course. But privatization of a public street would take consensus among all the business and property owners along the street, which is never going to happen. On the bright side, Fremont Street Experience has started posting notices tipping is voluntary, despite the increasingly aggressive behavior of some of the buskers.<\/p>\n

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Props to Fremont Street Experience for informing visitors that tips are optional for buskers, despite what these panhandlers (\"showgirls,\" costumed characters) claim and often aggressively badger unsuspecting tourists into paying. (pic via J. Cortez, Fremont Street Las Vegas… pic.twitter.com\/LpO8RJ93Zu<\/a><\/p>\n

— Vital Vegas (@VitalVegas) January 6, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n