The pictures that caused all the turmoil

I promise that this is not suddenly going to transform into a blog about my detention at the Cannery. We will return to poker shortly--I have a few posts already composed in the ol' noggin'. But this was one of the more dramatic incidents of my time in Vegas, and it's unclear at this point what, if any, ramifications will come from it. So you'll understand, I hope, if it comes up occasionally as events play themselves out.

My original plan was to just use the pictures I had taken in the ordinary course of my silly little "Guess the casino" series. But from some comments both public and private today, I have been persuaded to just dump them here--to show my hand, so to speak. So here they are, in the order that I took them, without any digital manipulation.




This was taken between the parking garage and the casino. I probably would have ended up not using this, because the glare makes it too hard to see the signs that were supposed to be the focus.



I like the kitschy, vaguely 1940s-50s theme of the Cannery. This sign over the phone banks is a typical example. I would have blurred or blacked out the word "Cannery" in it for my post, of course.



I likely would not have used this one, either. It didn't turn out well enough. In case you can't tell, it's an overhead dome sort of thing in the ceiling just inside the entrance to the casino. The girl's face shows up on lots of things in the Cannery, including the poker chips.




I usually take a picture of the poker room and/or a sign pointing to the poker room, on the assumption that that's a part of the casino that my readers will be most familiar with. Again, might not have used this one because I'd have been embarrassed at how blurry it came out. (My cell phone camera is really rudimentary, and it's often hard to tell on the little LCD screen whether they'll be usable.)




This is just a mildly interesting interior design detail, the way they've dressed up what I assume is a structural support pillar.





These were the last two pictures I took. They're just two different parts of the same large mural that sits over a bank of slot machines. These are the pics that the security guy later claimed were of their video monitors. I suppose there might be a ceiling camera somewhere in there, but I can't see any. And if somebody is standing with a camera in front of a design feature this striking (and, IMHO, cool), isn't it just a whole lot more likely that he's interested in the mural than the security cameras?

So that's it. That's what all the fuss was about. Now there will be no "Guess the casino" posts for the Cannery, because I've expended all my ammunition here--unless somebody wants to shoot me other photos they have taken there, in which case I suppose I can do them as sort of a guest submission thing.