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Non-Tech : LVEN:NASDAQ--Las Vegas Entertainment Inc. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Janice Shell who wrote (189)	10/4/2000 2:47:54 AM
From: EL KABONG!!!	Respond to of 228

And on another topic, the El Rancho was imploded at 2:30am on Tuesday, October 3rd, 2000. I was there. I finally got to see one of these Las Vegas implosions up close and personal, and it was worth the all the hassle to get to see it. To describe it? Well, the sequence was something like this: As you looked at the shell of the El Rancho from the left to the right: flash, flash, flash, boom, flash, boom, flash, boom, flash, boom, flash, boom, boom, boom <noticeable pause for effect? for about 2 seconds>, then flash, flash, flash, boom, flash, boom, flash, boom, boom, boom, <one second pause>, and down she came, starting on the left side and ending on the right. From beginning to end, maybe 12 seconds, absolute tops. The building collapsed unto itself, as an implosion is intended to do. The experts had done their job 100% correctly. After the building came down, a tremendous thick cloud of choking dust rose into the air. However, the dust never reached beyond the area that the Las Vegas police had partitioned off. I had thought that dust would rain down all over the area, but it didn't. It was pretty well confined to a very small area of the Strip north and east of Circus Circus, which was my vantage point. I'd estimate that there were probably several thousand people in my immediate vicinity, despite the early morning hour. I'd guess that there were equal numbers of observers north and east of the condemned building, but I really don't know for sure. As I said, it was well worth watching. I guess that with the implosion, the El Rancho chapter of LVEN and ITB is now closed. Perhaps more details will be released in the months to come, because the SEC (and presumably other agencies) are still investigating LVEN and other folks. KJC