By SEAN MUSSENDEN
Media General News Service
BILOXI, Miss.—The slot machines no longer pay off in the Las Vegas of the South.
The nine massive casino barges that line the water here sit silent and vacant, some tossed by a two-story storm surge onto a patch of sandy soil across a coastal highway.
Their new, dry resting spot foreshadows […]
From a few reliable sources, and some recent published news articles, it looks like the Biloxi Gulfport area might have temporary casinos up an running shortly after the New Years. I am not sure which casinos will be opened for business. But I am sure most of them will try to construct some type of […]
By PATRICK JOY
ST. CROIX - In a last-minute decision hours before Hurricane Katrina roared into Biloxi, Miss., Regina Harvey and her family piled into a car and began an agonizingly slow evacuation to Alabama. Across town, Kim Walston already had left but ended up in the same town as Harvey.
When they returned to Biloxi, along […]
At first, I heard that the Imperial Palace and The Palace in Biloxi both survived Hurricane Katrina without great damage. However after reading more reports and viewing the below picture, the Palace’s barge was almost completly destroyed. Looks like the IP (Imperial Palace) suffered the least amount of damage.
This is an older picture of the damage to the Hard Rock Casino in Biloxi, but still amazing to look at. Especially for those who knew this area, and can relate the mass amount of damage to the surrounding area.