The El Cortez tends to have that effect on plenty of folks. 1, the El Cortez gift shop will sell 16-by-16 inch chunks of the stuff for $19 a pop. “Then it sort of took off to where we’d get multiple emails and calls a day, ‘How can I get a piece of the old carpet?’” “I started getting requests from people I know, ‘Hey, if you’re changing out the carpet, can I get a piece?’ ” Wiesberg said. So in September, when the hotel replaced the carpet of 13 years as part of a $25 million renovation project, a growing legion of El Cortez diehards demanded their due. The carpet is a symbol of the El Cortez.” “The longer I’ve been involved with the El Cortez, the more it isn’t surprising to me. “He was like, ‘This carpet! Oh, I love this carpet!’ ” Wiesberg said, his voice a cocktail of amusement and incredulity. The general manager of the El Cortez recalls a group of buddies strolling through the casino when one of them dropped to his knees and caressed the rose-adorned fabric beneath his feet, as if professing his fealty to the gods of gaudy. (Ellen Schmidt/Las Vegas Review-Journal) was a light bulb moment: a pack of well-dressed dudes illuminating the enduring appeal of floral floor covering about as subtle as Clark Griswold’s Christmas lighting.Īdam Wiesberg remembers well the scene from about five years ago. The El Cortez hotel and casino has been operating since 1941 at its spot on Fremont Street in downtown Las Vegas.
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