{"id":824,"date":"2012-04-10T02:51:48","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T02:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/punkoutlawrecords.com\/?p=824"},"modified":"2012-04-11T17:26:45","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T17:26:45","slug":"elvis-bettie-page-sightings-viva-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punkoutlawrecords.com\/2012\/04\/10\/elvis-bettie-page-sightings-viva-las-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"Elvis & Bettie Page Sightings @ Viva Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love subcultures. At\u00a0Viva Las Vegas<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/a>weekend you get to experience a world flipped on it\u2019s head where it seems almost\u00a0 EVERYONE is a rockabilly character from some 1950\u2032s movie or I Love Lucy episode.\u00a0\u00a0 When I drove up to the Orleans hotel I knew I was in the right spot before even checking the sign. There were James Dean greasers walking into the venue and crazy looking hot-rods out in the parking lot.<\/p>\n

The Orleans is huge and with it\u2019s over the top Louisiana cajun theme, it is the perfect locale for a rockabilly weekender. After 15 years, I would say the Orleans Hotel and Tom Ingram\u2019s Viva Las Vegas have pretty much perfected the art of the event.\u00a0 And it is art. It\u2019s packed full of activities from 10 AM on Thursday until the wee hours of the night on Sunday. When do the people sleep? From the looks of things\u2026 not much.<\/p>\n

To the casual attendee, things sure seemed to flow along without a hitch. I arrived early afternoon to see an incredibly long line snaking it\u2019s way through the casino floor. It seemed to have no end in sight. I panicked thinking I was going to have to stand in that line to pick up my passes. But not to worry, that was the line to pick up tickets for the popular Burlesque Show later that evening. That dear reader, would have to carry on without me.<\/p>\n

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I love subcultures. At\u00a0Viva Las Vegas\u00a0weekend you get to experience a world flipped on it\u2019s head where it seems almost\u00a0 EVERYONE is a rockabilly character from some 1950\u2032s movie or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[50,59,56,55,61,49,52,60,53,58,51,62,35,18,244,57,54,48],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n