Chicago Steakhouse at Gold Strike has always been head and shoulders above any other restaurant in Tunica. Classic steakhouse menu. Can get expensive, but it has been outstanding every time I've been.
OT: Sam’s Town Casino Tunica closing.
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Boy it's scary to think about some of those midnight runs from Starkville to Tunica my friends and I survived... in what I would call quite an unsober state.
Just wait if and when Alabama starts allowing casinos.
A lot of the traffic they get is from Alabama. We went there once, and I ran into my nextdoor neighbor - totally at random. Neither of us knew the other was going. It's easier to get to now that the south loop in DeSoto County around Memphis is open.
Especially after dark when 61 turns into Third Street. Scary scary.
Hasn't Southwest traffic dropped off at Jackson since they returned 2 or 3 years ago?
It's not closing per say, just moving it to Starkville per the Dilly Directive.
And standing out in the big tent after paying the $20 cover at Splash while you waited for somebody to come out so you could go in.
Funny you mention Splash Casino. This is what it looks like now.
Consolidated Grain and Barge has a grain elevator in what used to be the parking lot.
Every time I’ve ever been on the early morning flight to Houston it has always been full. Can’t speak for the flights to Baltimore.
I was there in the summer. Downtown is doing fine. Fremont is buzzy. The strip has gotten insane with spiking people for every little bit of money they can get away with.
Many a lease dollar made off that property...
It did change hands, but it’s not serving Mexican food. The menu is pretty much the same that it’s been for years. Really good breakfast.
Thanks. I have not stopped the last few times I’ve been in Tunica because of that.
I really don’t see how Fitzgerald’s and Hollywood stay in business. I expect they’ll be the next to go.
I also believe that is when Northwest still had a hub at MEM and was blocking Southwest out of there. And that's when Southwest model was to fly to close, less populated airports.
At one point there were plans for an indoor ski slope just south of Sams Town.
wasn’t Tunica second only to Vegas for poker at one time? I know it was one of the stops for the big tournament circuits.
I’m in S. MS and have only been to Tunica once, years ago when it was rolling. Even then, the surrounding area to me was kind of depressing.
I’m in S. MS and have only been to Tunica once, years ago when it was rolling. Even then, the surrounding area to me was kind of depressing.
I've been there a couple of times. And yes, the area looks a little depressing, a bit like going back in time until you get to the casinos. I'd never been to the delta before, but my take was that it's as flat as a flitter (whatever a flitter is) with black dirt. I'd never been to the delta before.
Some of it is black dirt. That’s mostly Sharkey Clay (what people call gumbo or buckshot) but there’s alot of sandy loam too. It’s more tan colored. All that around the casinos is sandy loam.
It's been a while, but we went through DeSota County, I think down I-55, then maybe I-69 over to Tunica. There was black dirt somewhere along that route. It certainly contrasted with the red clay we have in north central Alabama (looks more like Mars than Mars looks like Mars).
Yes if you did that route you saw some buckshot. That’s my neck of the woods. We used to farm all that along 69 in the Delta.
My parents lived in the Arkansas delta at some point before I was born. They talked about Jonesboro, Kennet, Poplar Bluff, and Blytheville. They were in the NE corner of Arkansas near Missouri.
There used to be a sign near our shop where I-69 started that said “Begin 69”. We saw guys stopping and taking pictures with it all the time.
ETA: found a pic
Had Desoto County legalized gambling first, this story would have turned out differently.
My first time there I wondered why there was a short strip of Interstate highway essentially in the middle of nowhere with nothing on either end, not to mention it was an Interstate with an odd number running east and west. And it doesn't follow the decreased numbering from east to west like the original layout of the system. It's sort of filled in a little now around Memphis with the south loop, but I've not been there since that was completed.
It’s all part of the I-69 corridor that will probably never be completed. It runs from the Canadian border in Michigan to Texas with most of it done between Michigan and northwest Tennessee. Other than the small portion in Desoto County there is no other section done in Mississippi, Arkansas, or Louisiana.
It’s supposed to follow along US 61 from Tunica County to near Greenville where it will cross the river into Arkansas.
