Las Vegas Massage Parlors: A look back at the naughts of ‘09
January 1, 2010 by rubmetender
This isn’t to say that the decade didn’t begin with hopeful signals — low unemployment and rising wages, and the tax revenue needed to improve schools, health care and social services. The Strip kept attracting more customers and building more hotel rooms to house them.
But the 9/11 terrorist attacks should have provided a clear warning that a dip in tourism could pummel the city. When tourism quickly resumed, however, that warning went unheeded.
Plus, debt was accumulating, in households here and among potential customers around the world, and on corporate balance sheets.
It should have been a portentous time, a ripe time for Cassandras.
“The decade began with a facade,” Jackson says of those go-go years.
A facade. Soon it was a Potemkin village of steel and stucco, massage parlors and pawn shops.