It was July 1, 1976, when Fertitta opened a 5,000-square-foot joint called The Casino with 90 employees overseeing 100 slot machines, a few table games and a snack bar attached to the Mini Price Motor Inn on Sahara Avenue west of the Strip. A series of food and gaming promotions is planned at Station properties throughout the month. Throughout July, the company is observing its 40th anniversary, kicking it off Friday at 9 p.m., with a fireworks display at Palace Station. But 40 years ago this week, it was just a dream envisioned by Frank Fertitta Jr. Today, Station Casinos is the acknowledged market leader of the locals casino industry with 21 venues and 12,000 employees. Simpson and several of his associates were arrested for robbery in 2007.Ī train locomotive that wasn’t anywhere close to Southern Nevada’s rail line.Ī boss so beloved that workers often spent their free time and holidays there to be around their friends and their extended work families. Jeff Scheid/Las Vegas Review-Journal Follow employees of Palace Station have seen it all in the 40 years the venerable locals casino has been open.Ī flood that turned the casino’s stairway entrances into waterfalls and the casino floor into a lake in the 1980s.Ī media circus swarming the place where O.J. After lunch it's cashing tickets while standing for the next two hours before I get to close things up and go home about 11pm.Long time Palace Station employees Mike Manning, left, currently a Santa Fe Station shift manager and worked for the company 39 years, Bernice Boykin, cashier and cage clerk, 37 years, Betty Brown, PBX, 24 years, Debbie Walsh, bingo agent, 38 years, gather for an interview on Tuesday, June 28, 2016. Then the next set of games start and I supervise or write tickets, again standing for the next four hours before I get to have a 30 min lunch break.

After writing tickets for the next four hours, standing the whole time, I finally get a ten minute break. Then customers start to come in and complain that the TV's dont work right and there are no sheets. Try to make copies for the games coming up, yet most of the time the copier does not work so I spend the next hour trying to fix it. What is a typical day like for you at the company? They are still making 85 million per month. The company does not care about the customer or the employees. The counter is the original counter from 1956. Other chairs do not reach up to the counter so we have to stand all day. Chairs are worn out and not fit to sit in.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company? Management and ownership does not care about anything but money What is the most stressful part about working at the company? What is the best part of working at the company?

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