Thursday, Nov. 10, 2005 | 8:30 a.m.
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Up high, construction workers populated scaffolds at the soon-to-be Hooters Hotel & Casino just east of the Strip on Tropicana Avenue. Below, women hoping to be chosen as Hooters Girls sashayed into the hotel's main entrance.
There didn't appear to be a lot of construction happening.
Tuesday was the day in which several hundred young women applied and auditioned to work as servers at the new Hooters hotel, which is expected to open the first weekend in February (which in 2006 is Super Bowl weekend). The hotel management team has already hired Hooters Girl No. 1, a sprightly woman named Ashley Day.
Day was on hand to provide a morale boost and advice for those hoping to strut the snug white tees and tangerine shorts, the Hooters uniform since the chain opened in 1983. Day tells prospects, "Don't be so nervous. Be yourself, let your personality shine through and show that you're enjoying yourself."
A total of 200 -- or, 199 after Day -- women will be hired as servers; the total hotel staff will be 1,000, said Hooters Senior Vice President of Marketing Richard Langlois. The hotel, which today is the old Hotel San Remo, will have 711 rooms, a 30,000-square-foot casino and restaurants including (of course) a Hooters and Dan Marino's Fine Food and Spirits, which is based in Florida and owned by the former Miami Dolphins quarterback.
Room reservations are being taken for dates beginning Feb. 13, but if construction is delayed by one day, we'll know where that day came from.
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Franky goes to Celebrity: If anyone could write a book about Las Vegas concert venues, it would be Franky Perez. The local rocker has performed at the Railhead at Boulder Station, the Orleans Arena, Barbary Coast, House of Blues and the Suncoast Showroom. He now has a standing Friday night gig downtown at Celebrity; he's booked there this week and Nov. 18 at 9 p.m. "Having grown up here, downtown is where it's happening," Perez said Wednesday. "We're trying to make (Celebrity) a really cool rock venue."
Also at Celebrity this weekend are the Comets, five of the surviving members of Bill Haley's '50s rock 'n' roll band, who perform on Saturday (Haley himself died in 1981 at age 55) ...
Life's rich pageant: Visitors to the Imperial Palace this week will notice an inordinate number of women wearing tiaras and sashes while milling about the casino. They are contestants in the 25th Annual Ms. Senior America Pageant, which takes place today through Saturday's finals (set for 1 p.m.). The Nevada entrant is Las Vegas' own DeLois La Delle, 68, a 25-year Las Vegan who owns Creative Enterprises dance studio and is a former lounge performer ...
Live to laugh: Legendary comic George Carlin has been added to the lineup for the "Vegas Founders of Comedy," show which is part of The Comedy Festival, on Nov. 19 at Flamingo Las Vegas. The "Founders" show, hosted by Larry King, will feature vintage performance clips and appearances by Shelley Berman, Norm Crosby, Phyllis Diller, Shecky Greene and Jerry Lewis. Carlin has most recently headlined at the Stardust ...
Ruffled feathers: Not to give the impression I spend my days tailgating unsuspecting Las Vegas motorists, but I'm noticing some funny (and occasionally hostile) messages out there. A license-plate frame spotted Wednesday on a Mini Cooper convertible read: "My African Grey Parrot Is Smarter Than Your Honor Student."
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