“You see all these massive buildings that are meant to have 10,000 people in them and no one is there,” Butera said. Scott Butera, President of Interactive Gaming for MGM Resorts, said Las Vegas currently looks like the movie “Omega Man,' a 1971 film that starred Charlton Heston as the sole survivor of germ warfare. “Seventy percent of our bets are through mobile,” Kornegay said. He said it wasn’t quite as stark as other parts of casino operations since most sports had already ceased and the foot traffic had all but stopped inside the sportsbook.

Jay Kornegay shut down the SuperBook inside the Westgate. Some Vegas hotels resorted to boarding up their windows and entrances. “For the past three years, there has a been at least one person here every day except between the hours of 3 a.m. “There’s no lock on our door,” said Michael Rubinstein, executive chef at Momofuku, one of the highest-rated restaurants on the strip. It was business as usual the next day and for everyday after that until Mawhen Nevada governor Steve Sisolak announced that all non-essential businesses had to close for 30 days in wake of the Coronavirus.

23, 1963, the day after JFK was assassinated. That's because the last time Sin City closed up shop was on Nov. Las Vegas casinos are famously short on locks.

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