Thursday September 6th 1979 hello Hollywood hello at MGM Grand.
Kind of lazy day big event was going to the MGM Grand. Goldie came over to stay with kids. We left about 9- finally drove up to the landmark that can be seen wherever you are in and around Reno. Only a mountain can block it out! Everything plush in the Hollywood style- enormous crystal chandeliers the full length of the gaming floor. Slot machines from $0.05 to a dollar Bob and I played the $0.05 one and lost and went to 10 cents in one and lost and finally $0.25 last 1 and finally ended up losing $4.50. Got in line for “Hello, Hollywood Hello!” at 10:30 for 11:00 seating and 12:00 show. Herded in areas like cattle, Bob said. Ziegfeld Theater enormous. Seating in tiers and with a $5 tip we got third-tier seats just right of center. Ordered Blue Nun wine and Mumm’s extra dry champagne to make our $17.50 cover charge. Stage must be 200 feet long with wings and also high stages on either side and a floating stage above our heads. The cast arrived in a 727 mockup (real one too heavy!) San Francisco deteriorated before our eyes in the 1906 earthquake and the stage was covered with waterfalls in the space spectacular over a ton of feathers on the 1,113 costumes used. Bare bosoms on some & g-strings only on men but not suggestive. A constant changing Kaleidoscope for over 2 hours. Champagne just lasted long enough. But Bob put the sugar in the fridge and left the milk out when we had coffee before bed.