TWIT is sad to report that Caesar has left the building, literally. This morning, the two story tall statue of Caesar was taken down from the top of the pavilion at the Glory Of Rome casino boat complex as part of the $50 million renovation. Harrahs is going to rebrand the casino and will operate it under the Horseshoe brand as a result of its purchase of the Horseshoe Gaming Holding Corporation for a whopping $1.45 billion. Gone will be anything even remotely connected to Rome, and replacing it will be a quasi-cowboy theme.
The renovation is going to have to be pretty extensive, given the fact that everything in the place oozes Rome, especially the outside of the hotel and the pavilion. The least of the renovation will be on the actual casino boat. The inside of the casino looks pretty much like every other casino. I'm guessing that the dealers and other workers will all get new uniforms sans the gold embroidered Caesars head that was on all of their shirts. Maybe their uniform shirts will have little gold horseshoes.
It will be a bit sad to not see Caesar and Cleopatra when we visit. I think we saw one fo them just about every time we went there. They were very friendly, and always greeted us with a hearty "Greetings, Roman citizens." They haven't said if they're going to replace the mascots with a cowboy or a horseshoe; personally, I hope they have a walking horseshoe.
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