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Precisely. But I don't whip out C-notes like toilet paper, either, and toss them nonchalantly on the gaming table as if I don't care whether I ever see them again. Somehow, the dudes and dollies who make it seem cool to lose tall stacks of 50-dollar chips don't like elephants in their cards or aerial-ists in their gin. "We had an orangutan named Boobie who grabbed a hamburger out of a guy's hand and took a bite," ringmaster Mike Hartzell recalled. "The guy grabbed the hamburger back, punched Boobie in the nose and resumed eating.

Boobie stuck out his tongue, like orangutans do." Some people just don't have a sense of humor. The guy was probably a high roller. Hi Circus Circus is those eye-opening' pink folks, you know? They use that curiously luminous pink color on the lettering of their Vegas casinohotel buildings, on their striped circus show roof and even on mailing envelopes, whose brightness could knock over a sleepy postman faster than a Doberman pinscher. As suspected, Joyce Gordon is a little different, too. The Circus Circus rep is not one of those cute airheads so often charged with carrying the public relations banner.

With her thorough knowledge of the operation and passionate belief in its gambling entertainment, Joyce is almost part of the show. "The first time I walked through the casino door, I saw a trapeze artist flying through the air. I started to cry," Joyce recalled. "It was beautiful but not practical. At first, the circus was a gimmick a lovely, flashy idea." How did such a thing start, FULLY COOKED BREAKFASTS AND DINNERS ALL INCLUDED Play golf.

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'Plus departure taxes and New Zealand gov't service tax. SUNBEAM TOURS Call 1-800-443-0400 3840 S. Plaza Santa Ana 92704 9am-6pm Sun. 10am-2pm BBGSBBBL WSSS. Anyhow, Circus Circus had to reform.

It was done effectively by putting the circus and carnival area on the mezzanine and gamblers on the first floor, beneath a winding ramp. Whole families could come, but their energies and interests were focused separately. Next, Circus Circus began selling hotel rooms. "It was an uphill fight," Joyce recalled. "People couldn't conceive of a place with a circus and carnival atmosphere having nice rooms.

The turning point was in 74. Now, we're one of the most successful hotels in the industry, with a near 100 percent occupancy." The 2,793 rooms rent for $26 apiece Sundays through Thursdays, $37 on Fridays and Saturdays. In midsummer, they go up to $30 and $39. The 13. circus acts include Boomer the boxing kangaroo, Anna and her Russian wolfhounds, dare FROM' $M5: "Jay Sarno bought Caesars Palace, which was really the first theme resort in Vegas.

You may know they have a showroom called Circus Maximus. They said they were going to build a Roman circus, but Jay decided instead to build a completely separate combined circusgaming facility for the family. "We opened on Oct. 18, 1968. We were jeered, sneered and laughed at.

Who ever heard of a circus in a gaming facility? "The casino pit beneath the trapeze was totally open. The 21 dealer would try to deal and players were looking up at the trapeze artist. Tiny the Elephant talked back to the craps table. A diver doing the sponge plunge came off a 70-foot-high platform. When he landed, between two craps tables, there was a great whoosh of compressed air." Well, it sounds pretty good to me.

The way I look at it, they could allot a zebra to the slot machines, a koala to the blackjack tables and spider monkeys to the chandeliers, and I'd buy a season's pass. Maybe I'm not the kind of hard-core gambler who makes Vegas juice "Can you imagine," Joyce asked, "the guy on the craps table shaking the dice and saying, 'Baby needs a new pair of and here comes the sponge plunger zooming down from the roof, or a trapeze artist sails past? Theatrical yes; practical, no. "One guy was playing blackjack with no awareness of an elephant being any closer than Africa. This huge gray vacuum cleaner began working its way across the table, sucking cards into its trunk. It was Tanya the Elephant.

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"Some people say the kangaroo act is cruel," Joyce reflected. "It's not. Boomer is pampered. When he gets into a clinch and makes believe he's fighting, actually he's really kissing his opponent." Joyce says that whenever she is depressed, she goes out in the hallway and has a "pooch smooch" with the show dogs. "I get a good face washing," she said.

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