If you’ve got a spare $1,450 handy, you can be the proud owner of the London Clubs marquee that formerly adorned Planet Hollywood‘s façade back when it was still the 
Aladdin, plus one baccarat chip, shipping and handling not included. (Some assembly required.) “It was the first European style casio [sic] in Las Vegas,” writes seller Mark, and undoubtedly the last, I might add. It successively broke the backs of London Clubs International and Planet Ho’s casino division, reducing both to minor principalities in the Caesars Entertainment empire. At a mere 13 feet long and 6 feet, 6 inches high, and weighing only 175 pounds, this is clearly the perfect accessory for your “man cave” or yard, as Mark suggests. Heck, I can just see it on my front lawn. There’s much weirder stuff just down the street … although those killjoys at UNLV removed the suspected meth lab that was sitting at the south end of their campus.
Speaking of the fates of LCI and Planet Ho, how did this marquee come to be in private hands? Or is Mark really Gary Loveman in disguise? He’s gotta pay the interest on that $20 billion somehow. Better hurry, folks, before Lonnie Hammargren snaps this up for his house of horrors.
Aladdin II was a victim of Sept. 11. I’ll never forget going there in the middle of lunchtime in November of 2001 and being the only person in Commander’s Palace – Las Vegas. It was designed for 400+ people. The whole place was a tomb. I also believe that they made a bad mistake by not including the old Aladdin Theatre into the complex.
It’s bad theme timing… Like the Luxor, it must lose it’s original theme because of 9/11, and the London Club must go because of all those latte sipping European Socialists trying to sink our economy and turn us into Greece. Gone are the days of Americans admiring our Continental counterparts, it’s much more contemporary to loathe coddled big government Euros…
WHY do you think that a European Style Casino will always fail in Las Vegas? What precisely is the difference between ” a European Style Casino” and the Monte Carlo which at least claims to come close to a European Gambling Salon.
Make no mistake, Monte Carlo (the casino) is very, VERY mass market, always has been. There may be some posh, private gambling salons in Las Vegas like the one that London Clubs built at the Aladdin (Wynncore has one; that’s where Joe Francis lost all his money) but the concept of the exclusive, high-end gambling venue similar to those you’d find in London has never caught on in Vegas and never to the extent attempted at the Aladdin. The scale and cost of a Vegas casino makes it prohibitive to run a European-style operation.
I doubt the Monte Carlo is claiming it runs much of a European style operation anymore, not with the bikini dancers and hip hop music blaring at the front tables!