The argument that this roller coaster attraction would detract from the architectural purity of the Stratosphere strikes me as a fairly weak one.

Has anyone seen what Walt Disney World added to the side of the Planet Earth geodesic globe at Epcot? It's a large steel girder structure, constructed in a similar mode to the Eiffel Tower in Paris, and I believe it actually enhances the original structure.

By the way, this is my first post on the ChipBoard though I've been a regular reader for several months now. I've been a chipper for less than a year - joined the CC>CC this summer - and am an enthusiastic collector of $1 house chips from anywhere and everyhwere. I look forward to meeting you all at the 2002 Convention.

Thanks to Andy, Travis, Gene and many others for regularly posting this type of LV casino news - it keeps those of us out in the hinterlands in touch with Vegas events.

One more thing, those of you in the Las Vegas area, please check out my weekly Saturday night radio show - "Rock & Roll's Greatest Hits" - on Kool Oldies radio.

Happy chippin'!

Dick Bartley