"The D" new casino coming to down town Las Vegas

[marie meijer]

Check out: "Michigander brings Detroit Flavor to Vegas Hotel", Freep, (Detroit Free Press) 8-12-2012  by Ellen Creager, travel writer. Logo is big red D and there will be a branch of the famous and popular American Coney Island, the first outside of Michigan! This is at the site of former Fitzgerald's. Click on pix on the net. Grand opening in October. Longbar, longest bar in NV will have it's bank of 15 TVs tuned to Detroit sports! GO SPARTANS, Red Wings, Lions, Tigers, Pistons and Wolverines! 

[BillyJoe]

Sorry to see you still posting here, MM. I thought maybe you were the P'Ball Michigan winner, and bought a tropical island.


 
BTY, I stopped at an "Authentic Detroit Coney Island Hot Dog" place on the way home from golf earlier this week. I didn't know there was such a thing. No pickles - just sweet relish.   Had to settle for onions and ketchup.

[marie meijer]

[QUOTE=billyjoe]Sorry to see you still posting here, MM. I thought maybe you were the P'Ball Michigan winner, and bought a tropical island.


 Negative, Billy, I am not a gambler. Some lucky soul won $337 million in that recent lottery at a Sunoco station on Main Street in Lapeer (Americanization of French la pierre, meaning stone). It's a sleepy, rural town of 8841 population according to 2010 census. I rarely get there as the casinos of Detroit are in the opposite direction.

[marie meijer]

 BTY, I stopped at an "Authentic Detroit Coney Island Hot Dog" place on the way home from golf earlier this week. I didn't know there was such a thing. No pickles - just sweet relish.   Had to settle for onions and ketchup.FYI Billy: New book: CONEY DETROIT by Katherine Yung and Joe Grimm "Detroit is the world capital of the coney island - a natural-casing hot dog topped with an all-meat beanless chili, chopped white onions, and yellow mustard....created by Greek immigrants in the early 1900s. "Coney Detroit" traces history of the coney island restaurant which existed in many cities but thrived nowhere as it did in Detroit and surveys many of the hundreds of independent and chain restaurants in business today." (The authors are giving a presentation at a local library on Sept 18.)Detroit is also known for SANDER'S HOT FUDGE SUNDAES, MORLEY'S Chocolates, Vernors Ginger Ale and Better Made Potato Chips. Motor City Casino is housed in the old WONDERBREAD factory. Oh yes, also FAYGO pop. (Time for a snack!!)

[mammajamma]

Marie.....you forgot carsAnyone know what the D and Fitzgerald's was called earlier?I do.

[BillyJoe]

[QUOTE=billyjoe]
 BTY, I stopped at an "Authentic Detroit Coney Island Hot Dog" place on the way home from golf earlier this week. I didn't know there was such a thing. No pickles - just sweet relish.   Had to settle for onions and ketchup.


FYI Billy: New book: CONEY DETROIT by Katherine Yung and Joe Grimm "Detroit is the world capital of the coney island - a natural-casing hot dog topped with an all-meat beanless chili, chopped white onions, and yellow mustard....created by Greek immigrants in the early 1900s. [/QUOTE] 
Well, my Chicago-born taste buds respond to a Vienna dog on a steamed poppy-seed bun with chopped onions and a long slice of dill pickle.

[marie meijer]

Marie.....you forgot carsWho could forget cars on this the main day of the annual Woodward Dream Cruise! The 18th cruise was over by 9:00 PM. 1.5 million were in attendance and some 40K classic cars were admired!  However, cars have been cruising all week long, bumper to bumper, stop and go. The route is over ten miles long, from 9 mile in Ferndale to Pontiac, through Royal Oak, B'ham and Bloomfield Hills. Peeps arrive from all over the USA and many other countries, as well, lining the sides with lawn chairs. Pix on the net.  

[marie meijer]

Anyone know what the D and Fitzgerald's was called earlier?I do.Pray tell, mammajamma. Do NOT make me google it!

[BillyJoe]

Marie.....you forgot cars

Anyone know what the D and Fitzgerald's was called earlier?

I do.

Demolished ? 

[faygo]

marie glad you gave the correct discriptionof a real Coney.  Nothing like the snap of a  Kowalski hot dog.  Other favorites are the chilli meat w/o the sauce on a hot dog bun and the 1/2 lb ham sandwich with a bowl of green(pea soup) or a bowl of brown (bean soup) both loaded with Ham. Thinking they might be worth the 17 hour drive.