Then I started doing promotions at Baby’s nightclub inside the Hard Rock. I was basically taking care of all his clients, checking them into hotel rooms, making sure there were no problems whatsoever. I got recruited to work out here through an independent junket host, who had players from overseas. I worked the door at a club out there called Empire. Make a Kamikaze and I’m good to go.ģ025 Sammy Davis Jr. When they’re on duty, I’ll let them in and they can walk around. Most Metro cops that come here armed, they’ll walk back, put their pistol in the car and come right back. She said, ‘I will never respond to you guys if you call for us.’ That was very surprising to me. Our policy is that you’ve got to put the gun away in our safe. I said look, you can’t come in here with that gun. What’s the craziest thing you’ve seen working the door? We have a DJ on Friday and Saturday nights. We open up the backyard and people roller skate the third Wednesday of every month. You’ve got Jenga and beer pong in the back. I always say it’s like a grown-up’s Dave & Busters. What’s unique about the Gold Spike? What makes it special? My impression has always been the Gold Spike is a very safe place. You’re seeing them in Louis Vuitton and Gucci now. You don’t usually see them in colors anymore. If you’ve got the same color on-all red or all blue-that might not be the person you want in here. When you’re walking in intoxicated and pushing people, that person shouldn’t be here. Most people with common sense would know how to detect. What are the telltale signs of trouble you know how to detect that the average person doesn’t? They can blend in downtown and nobody would even know… Biker gangs, we look out for them too. We get a lot more-I wouldn’t say trouble downtown, but… We have more L.A. It’s much more affordable than the Strip. What’s the biggest difference between those venues and a place like the Gold Spike? I’ve worked at strip clubs, nightclubs on the Strip and all around downtown. I work for Gold Spike, but under the umbrella of DTP (the Downtown Project). In the latest edition of A Night at the Door, we dive into Vegas at the moment it comes alive-and hear from the people who hold the line in three very different ways.Ģ17 Las Vegas Boulevard North, Las Vegas, NV 89101, Īlmost five years. With his tall, lean frame, Lloyd Garcia doesn’t seem imposing at first glance, but he carries himself with an authority earned from years of working clubs up and down the Strip. The largest of these, Hakkasan Nightclub at the MGM Grand, holds thousands of people and spans three levels of lounges, plus a main floor where the world’s most famous DJs-Tiesto, Steve Aoki, Calvin Harris-take the stage well after midnight it’s a place where even the VIP line moves slowly. Of course, the center of the action is on the Strip, a four-mile slice of Las Vegas Boulevard littered with hotels, casinos, restaurants and clubs. Known for its outdoor fire pits and jumbo beer pong and Jenga sets, Gold Spike is where you’ll see Howard Faagata, an easygoing, broad-shouldered man who runs security operations under the oversight of the Downtown Project the neighborhood rejuvenation campaign is headed by Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh, who relocated his company’s headquarters into the old City Hall campus in 2012. But there are also plenty of locals who have little reason to ever hit the Strip.Īt Gold Spike, a two-minute walk from the neon chaos of the Fremont Street Experience-a touristy five-block stretch of downtown casinos transformed into a pedestrian mall-both post-shift industry types and guests from the adjacent Oasis boutique hotel find a place of respite. There are bachelor parties and trade show attendees blowing money on VIP tables, lap dances and slot machines. We all know the tagline-“What happens here, stays here”-but not everyone is here for the same reasons. Sin City built its reputation by marketing equal doses of excitement and discretion. As the glow of casino marquees illuminates the skyline, voices get louder, dresses get tighter and inhibitions begin to fade. Everything changes in Las Vegas when the sun goes down.
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