Steve's Coney Island.

In Downtown Vegas on Fremont Street, walk to the Mermaid's Casino to the very back - it's a tiny "Grind Joint," a casino with only slot machines.

At Steve's Coney Island, you can get deep fried Twinkies and Oreos, among other things. It ain't classy, but its cheap.



They provided DF Twinkie's at a party in this photo. The presentation at the restaurant is more functional.

on Fremont Street walking experience.

Golden Palms.

The Golden Palms. $20 rooms. Diner. An every night until 4am, unironic wood panel lounge with kareoke.


One time we arrived and not 5 minutes later a fistfight broke out. One of those real fights, where there was this build-up, and dancing around and then some stumbling, awkward struggle, with others pulling them apart with no real damage but a strange feeling. The attacker left with a girl.

10 minutes after that, the attackee got up and sang. But first he emparted a sign of the times: "Don't ever ask another guy's girl what her MySpace name is."

footnote: Noooooooo! Golden Palms just closed, March 12, 2007. Goodbye old school. Hello lame condo.

It's... Fantastik

The Las Vegas Swap Meet.

Or at least: one of the indoor ones. Looks like it used to be a supermarket of food. Now its a supermarket of Wow.

Inside you can get food, like pickles.

You can get snakes. (This snake was for sale in a cage. Dog nowhere to be found.)

You can get incense burners. Special ones.

You can get personalized leather jackets. Still, this is a pretty fascinating choice, although one of my favorite movies of all time.

You can, of course, get toy weapons.

And cane swords. CANE swords.

For your party, get some balloons...

and roman busts. In fact, more than one kind.


And the institution: you can get deep-fried oreos. Check the kid's shirt.

Only 50 cents each.

And you can get your photo on a keychain, mug, button, or in a normal frame. We got ours on a banner and in a snowglobe.

1717 S Decatur Blvd

Corner of Decatur and Oakey
Las Vegas, NV 89102

(702) 877-0087

www.fantasticindoorswapmeet.com/

Liberace.

Yeah, you've heard about it. But its BETTER than you think. (Actually beautiful) pianos, gaudy cars and clothes, and a tight-ship crew of elder workers making sure you dont take photos inside.




So here is the outside of the two-building museum, which is in an incredibile strip mall. Liberace opened it while he was still alive, but that was probably before the low rent bar and Korean Christian Mission were neighbors.




It's $12.50 a pop but its worth it. They tell you to keep the receipt and write it off, coz its a donation to a non-profit museum. Only takes an hour to 90 minutes to get through and has a healthy gift shop.

Atomic Testing Museum

The Atomic Testing Museum, made with the help of the Smithsonian, is all things nuclear pertaining to Nevada. Amazing footage and artifacts from the 1950s on. $10 to get in and a pretty interesting gift shop.

The tone is also interesting, there are lots of viewpoints, from, "Man, we are lucky to be such a powerful country," to, "Those dicks told me it was safe." Either way, I'm guessing this museum is one-of-a-kind. Only a year old. You can have a fun 90 minutes there or an intense, educational 3 hours with all the artifacts and information. (see links for official website)

Pinball Museum

As amazing as it sounds. Mastermind Tim Arnold owned arcades throughout the 80s and retired early. Now his job is his passion, restoring and preserving pinball games to their functional glory. Before he opened the museum, we stopped by his house and his super-garage was filled with machines, 400 working and over 700 being fixed up.

YOU CAN PLAY ALL OF THEM.





The museum has about 80 games lined up in chronological order of when they were made, from the 50s surfer and hot chick styles to versions of "Rocky", "Addam's Family" and the killer "Simpson's" game.

Also in the back are some other antiques like Asteroids, Super Mario Bros, Star Wars, Paperboy and more.





The older machines only take a quarter. The bigger ones take 2 or 3. All proceeds go to the Salvation Army.




His website (see links) has an incredible mantra and more photos. I took the ones here in his old warehouse.

Hey

Here are things to do in Vegas. Or stuff we did.