84 (D-47) The Fremont Street Experience (FSE) is a pedestrian mall and attraction in downtown Las Vegas. The Golden Nugget is a casino-hotel located in Las Vegas, on the Fremont Street Experience. It is the largest hotel-casino in the downtown area (not The Las Vegas Strip), with a total of 2,605 deluxe guest rooms. The Golden Nugget was originally built in 1946, making it one of the oldest casinos in the city.
The world's largest gold nugget on display, the Hand of Faith, is displayed in the Golden Nugget lobby. Weighing 27.21 kilograms and 46 centimeters in length, the Hand of Faith was found near the Golden Triangle in Australia, and put on display at the casino in 1981 amid a number of other gold nuggets.
Jane
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Thanks Robert for your suggestion. (See his comment on Post 77.)
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If you are interested, a few recent articles about Las Vegas:
Obama says "I love Vegas." http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-obama-las-vegas/story?id=9885429
A recent survey (March 23, 2010): http://www.lasvegasnow.com/Global/story.asp?S=12190251
Obama's health care bill, Las Vegan point of view:
http://www.lasvegasnow.com/global/story.asp?s=12183134
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