Lucky Bang
“"If you can't do better than that I'll—" "What?" His grin held a challenge.
I just smiled as I floored the accelerator, pressing us both back in our seats as we flew through the mousetrap, staying to the left and onto the 515 which would take us to the east side of town.
The Boulder Highway used to be the heavily trafficked main drag between Sin City and Boulder City, home to the Hoover Dam. Now the 515 Bypass to the east and the 215 to the south siphoned the traffic and the prosperity with it, relegating the Boulder Highway to has-been status. Home to smaller, local casinos, gun stores, dives, hotels that apparently took pride in their low hourly rates, and pawnshops, the whole area clung to the tattered memory of bygone riches—its hopes fading along with the aging-colored awnings bleached by the assault of the sun. That's not to say hope was completely gone—there were pockets of economic revitalization along this long stretch of asphalt. However, hunkered between a flophouse and bar... called Balls to the Wall, which advertised in blinking neon an all-nude review, Payless Pawns wasn't in one of the sections on the upswing.MoreLess
I just smiled as I floored the accelerator, pressing us both back in our seats as we flew through the mousetrap, staying to the left and onto the 515 which would take us to the east side of town.
The Boulder Highway used to be the heavily trafficked main drag between Sin City and Boulder City, home to the Hoover Dam. Now the 515 Bypass to the east and the 215 to the south siphoned the traffic and the prosperity with it, relegating the Boulder Highway to has-been status. Home to smaller, local casinos, gun stores, dives, hotels that apparently took pride in their low hourly rates, and pawnshops, the whole area clung to the tattered memory of bygone riches—its hopes fading along with the aging-colored awnings bleached by the assault of the sun. That's not to say hope was completely gone—there were pockets of economic revitalization along this long stretch of asphalt. However, hunkered between a flophouse and bar... called Balls to the Wall, which advertised in blinking neon an all-nude review, Payless Pawns wasn't in one of the sections on the upswing.MoreLess
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