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#PacificWatch: Hollywood union workers said to be in a panic. @JCBlis

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 1 June 2024

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#PacificWatch: Hollywood union workers said to be in a panic. @JCBliss
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-05-28/hollywood-crew-unemployed-fewer-jobs-la-production-decline

1945 MAYA METHOT DIVORCING HUMPHREY BOGART IN LAS VEGAS

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This is

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CBS, I am the world, I'm John Bachelor. To Las Vegas.

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Jeff Bliss is Pacific Watch and right now he's watching Pacific Las Vegas.

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Jeff, a very good evening to you.

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Thank you for this.

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Walking around Las Vegas, the first thing I want to know is the Tropicana.

0:20.0

That's being sacrificed for the baseball field.

0:22.0

How's it? How's the

0:23.4

deconstruction coming? Good evening to you. Good evening, John. It appears the

0:27.5

deconstruction is right on schedule. They've been ripping out the

0:32.3

parking lots and bringing down some of the structure bit by bit.

0:35.6

But it's, you know, it's going, I don't want to say slowly but surely.

0:40.3

It's going along very surely. This is something that'll get done on or before the scheduled date in

0:46.3

2028. I guarantee it. They're eager to get this done and I think they're eager to get the A's in there as soon as possible they don't want them hanging out any longer than they have to.

0:55.8

The A's are despairing. They need a home. They need Vegas. They'll be a much better team. They'll be demand to play for the A's. Now you did send me a

1:06.5

photograph with a steam shovel falling into a hole in the ground in a tropicana.

1:11.2

What was that? Apparently the the large steam shovel had rolled over a septic tank type area in the parking lot and it was just too much weight for the steam shovel and so it sunk in and you know it

1:25.2

was probably something that went back to the 50s or 60s and they'd forgotten about

1:29.4

it but yeah it it swallowed it right up to the cab.

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Immediately I thought about all those it swallowed it right up to the cab.

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Immediately I thought about all those odd things that were turning up at the bottom of the

1:37.4

grand of the when the water was going down and the Colorado River in the storage areas. They were

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