UPDATE: Whiskey Pete’s closed to the general public on Tuesday, Dec. 17. Proprietor Affinity Interactive issued an announcement characterizing the closure as solely “momentary,” explaining its function as “to characteristic new and ongoing investments at Primm Resorts and Buffalo Invoice’s.” It didn’t say how lengthy the on line casino could be closed.
Nonetheless, this straight contradicts what Important Vegas was instructed by an government who oversees the on line casino lodge. And in 2019, “momentary” was additionally the best way Affinity characterised the closure of the Buffalo Invoice’s amusement park, which by no means reopened.
It is a creating story…
Whiskey Pete’s, which has 777 lodge rooms, 31 desk video games, and 1,360 slots, is positioned 40 miles southwest of Las Vegas in Primm, Nev. (Picture: trackame.com)
Whiskey Pete’s, which opened in 1977, will shut by 12 months’s finish. That’s in accordance with On line casino.org’s Important Vegas, which confirmed the unhappy however anticipated information with an government who oversees the property. The on line casino’s lodge is now not accepting on-line reservations.
Whiskey Pete’s is a part of the Primm Valley On line casino Resorts model owned by Affinity Gaming, the Las Vegas-based firm that additionally owns Buffalo Invoice’s and the Primm Valley Resort in Primm, and the Silver Sevens a mile east of the Strip. Affinity acquired Primm Valley Resorts in August 2007 from MGM Resorts for $400 million, again when Affinity was often known as Herbst Gaming. (It emerged from chapter as Affinity in Could 2011.)
Grimm, Nev.
Primm has skilled a gentle decline in enterprise for the previous 20 years, however the pandemic was a demise blow. Since then, its 371K square-foot outlet mall, which opened because the Vogue Shops of Las Vegas in 1998, has misplaced all however considered one of its tenants.
Primm’s once-popular amusement park at Buffalo Invoice’s, that includes the world-famous Desperado curler coaster, closed in 2019 and by no means reopened.
And, Primm Valley Resort & On line casino was so empty on July 18 that Lydia Salmen, 70, was in a position to enter its unstaffed cage and make off with $625K in foreign money and $27K in on line casino chips. She and her husband, John, have been solely caught as a result of their Nissan hatchback was videotaped by a police physique cam throughout an unrelated go to to the property on June 25.
The Primm Valley Resorts empire in higher instances. (Picture: Primm Valley Resorts)
In line with Important Vegas, Whiskey Pete’s will likely be adopted into oblivion by Buffalo Invoice’s. Though that on line casino resort remains to be accepting reservations by means of subsequent 12 months, it’s now closed Monday by means of Thursday.
Affinity will now focus all its consideration on Primm Valley Resort & On line casino, which Important Vegas reviews would be the recipient of “further funding and adjustments,” together with a brand new Denny’s.
The Whiskey Pete Story
Sure, there was an actual Whiskey Pete, and no, he didn’t should have a on line casino resort, or anything, named after him.
This creepy memorial to Peter McIntyre, that includes a duplicate of his unlawful whiskey nonetheless, decorates the foyer of Whiskey Pete’s in Primm, Nev. (Picture: bp.blogspot.com)
Peter McIntyre, a former miner and bootlegger, ran a gasoline station with two pumps — named State Line Station after the city’s unique identify — on the longer term web site of Whiskey Pete’s from the late Twenties till 1932.
In line with newspaper accounts on the time, he was a violently delinquent ex-con who served two months in jail for working an unlawful speakeasy, then six months for bootlegging whiskey initially of Prohibition.
In line with a 1928 story within the Las Vegas Evaluate newspaper, the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce acquired a number of complaints from vacationers about McIntyre. In line with one, he shot at them as they exited his gasoline station.
If gasoline was how McIntyre deliberate to show over a brand new leaf, doing it in State Line, Nev. (renamed Primm in 1996 to keep away from confusion with one other Stateline, Nev.) wasn’t an excellent plan as a result of few automobiles stopped to gasoline up there again then. So Whiskey Pete fell again into his previous unlawful methods. He distilled whiskey and offered it at his station on the down low.
An article about McIntyre within the March 28, 1931, version of the Las Vegas Age famous that “Pete resents the dangerous identify given to him by a portion of the general public and the press, alleging that he’s not so dangerous as he’s painted.” The event of the article was McIntyre’s launch on bail after capturing Rube Bradshaw, the Elgin, Nev. postmaster.
In 1932, McIntyre’s spouse had him dedicated to a sanitarium, the place he died the next 12 months. His coffin was supposedly buried upright, going through what was then known as the Arrowhead Trails Freeway, to honor McIntytre’s request to “see all these sons of bitches going by.” (That’s a fantasy we busted in 2022, by the best way.)
Ernest J. Primm, State Line’s eventual namesake, bought State Line Station, which by then had change into State Line Bar-Slots, in 1936. He opened his new on line casino, which he named in McIntyre’s honor, on the property in June 1977. A lodge tower was added in 1993.
