If you love John Ascuaga’s Nugget so much that you want to bring it home with you, you are in luck. You no longer have to worry about getting busted smuggling towels or pilfering soaps from you room–you can now buy genuine casino hotel furniture for a fraction of its true worth. From the RGJ:
The Salvation Army of Northern Nevada is reaping a huge windfall as John Ascuaga’s Nugget begins a $15 million renovation of its 28-story East Tower this week.
The Nugget is giving the Salvation Army all of the current furniture in the 600-room tower, including 1,000 beds and headstands, 600 tables, desks, stools and televisions plus 1,200 lamps and night stands along with 1,800 chairs.
The donations of more than 8,000 pieces of furniture has created a problem for the Salvation Army that many other charitable organizations would love to have.
“We are very pleased, but our biggest concern is trying to find a place to put it all,” said Jason Arnold, the Salvation Army’s director of operations. “You can imagine how much space that much furniture takes up.”
The Nugget plans to send four semi-truck loads of furniture a week to the Salvation Army for the next 12 weeks, Arnold said.
Nugget gets a makeover; Salvation Army benefits
In retrospect, I think that maybe Pinnacle should have done this with the Sands. By the time I got there, at least, things were looking pretty sorry.
And what about the artwork? Are they saving that for the remodel? There’s nothing like good hotel art to spice up any interior.