Mickey's Casino Closed
Mickey's Casino, formerly at 536 Marine Drive and more recently at 1603 E. Front St. (both locations are in Port Angeles), is now closed as of last Sunday.
The co-owners, George and Joyce Kain, moved here from Wenatchee in 2003.
They had been planning to stay open a little longer, but last Sunday none of their employees, who had heard unofficially that the casino/restaurant would be closing, showed up for work.
George Kain said: "Somebody spread the rumor we were going to close before we announced it to anybody. It was just taken out of our hands."
Mickey's was the only non-tribal casino in Clallam and Jefferson Counties.
The co-owners, George and Joyce Kain, moved here from Wenatchee in 2003.
They had been planning to stay open a little longer, but last Sunday none of their employees, who had heard unofficially that the casino/restaurant would be closing, showed up for work.
George Kain said: "Somebody spread the rumor we were going to close before we announced it to anybody. It was just taken out of our hands."
Mickey's was the only non-tribal casino in Clallam and Jefferson Counties.
posted by Tom Harper at 1:54 AM
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I didn't know that they had closed, or how good they were doing before closing but if they depended on folks like me they would have been broke years ago. I was in the old location a few times for a beer and never in the new location.
At card games I just flat suck, but I like playing slots once in a while and generally do okay.
Let's just say No to Socialism and privatize all fire departments NOW.
I question that, they have pretty damn good unions now and going private with them may end up costing us more.
I've often wondered though why police and fire departments and such other government services have unions when socialism should remove that need.
Oh, now I remember, this planet is frigging crazy.
Remember, you have the right to be left alone, after sex, except in case of an illegal entry, he he he.
Rights are interesting. They think they have the right not to hear us after screwing us.
I wonder what it would be like to privatize the hospital, I don't think I would like it one bit. At lease at this time if my hernia blows out they will have to fix it on just my medicare.
Hospitals are pretty much privatized and for-profit, run largely by Big Pharma and the insurance companies.
I know, but this is a county run hospital. There are some issues there, but all in all I'm okay with it and think they do a great job there.
One thing that bothers me though is that all kinds of bottom feeders on welfare that add nothing to society get fixed there at taxpayers expense while working tax paying folks often get the run around and are not fixed until they are reduced to bottom feeders also.
If you get my drift. I contend that the working folks should get first attention. And the older folks that worked all their lives and added to the tax rolls all those years.
Within limits, I see no point in trying too keep us aging fucks alive until we are a hundred after we as much as spent a lifetime as much as tempting death doing stupid things anyway.
Don't get me started about the bottom feeders in bars all the time that live on your money and get free care at the hospital to keep them alive while the under the table money they make goes toward more booze and gambling.
Just don't get me started, you know how I get.
I'm sorry to see it go only because it will be yet another vacant building in this town. I had some meals at the old Smitty's location a few times, but never been into the new location, and I don't gamble.
On another note, Beckett's Bike Shop downtown is also closing.
Didn't know about Beckett's Bike Shop closing. The other one down on front street seems to be doing okay. That is where I got my bike.
That's the trouble with down town!
Why didn't you buy one bike on Front Street and another bike on First Street? Surely you could have used two bikes, perhaps not simultaneously ... but still!
I kinda supported both bike shops. I originally went to by one at Beckett's, but they didn't have the style I liked in stock. Though they could have ordered it, I went to see what Sound Bikes had, and found one I liked even better, but I went back to Beckett's and purchased a helmet from them, just to support both shops.
I didn't know that Beckett's Bike Shop was closing either, that's too bad.
But they never made a penny off of me, I still own and use the 3 speed I bought about 30 years ago and it still serves me well.
It may seem cruel for me to say it but what is the difference between a 100 buck bike from Walmart and a 500 buck bike from a bike shop?
For the most part, 400 hundred bucks.
Shoot, I have a 35 speed 3 wheel recumbent I made from old discarded bikes that I made for about ten bucks.
Such a bike would cost you a ton of money in a bike shop. But I do own a metal lathe so that helps.
Sorry Becketts, I guess you will just have to find another way to make a living, that's what I always had to do as I traveled through life on this rock.
Good luck.
Oh that sucks about Becketts. I used to trade off which shop I bought supplies from and which shop worked on my bike. They're both great bike shops here, imho.
But realistically... how many Port Angeles residents bike? How many even walk a block from one store to the next rather than drive? Maybe Port Angeles residents would surprise me, but I can't believe this town can support two bike shops.
George said,"We're tapped out. It's not fun."
Now they know how all the people felt that lost their money gambling. What goes around comes around.
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