Benjamin Lowy

EDITORIAL: WANDERINGS: West of the Sun

Travels and wanderings across America

   
  
     
  
Strippers preform at the Las Vegas based Sapphire strip club, reputed to be the worlds largest gentlemen's club. Even strippers, in an industry long considered to be recession proof, are feeling the pinch on these hard economic times. Many are making 30 percent less in tips from private dances on any given evening.
   
  
     
  
   
  
     
  
   
  
     
  
   
  
     
  
   
  
     
  
   
  
     
  
   
  
     
  
Following their retirement or casino redesign, all the neon signs taken down and thrown out, make their way to the "Boneyard," a protected area in north Las Vegas. Here the neon signs used in Ls Vegas' brighter days lie used and unlit.