There’s rarely a tuxedo to be seen in your average American casino. The ones a long way from Vegas have a distinctly down market air.

The first few I visited on the Ohio River or the Gulf Coast reinforced the working class folks with a gambling problem, bored and/or addicted senior citizens and the like.

I’ve been pitched stories a few times about casinos and the movies. I turn them down as only one picture really gets that corner of the gambling industry right.

“Mississippi Grind” could be titled “Metropolis, Illinois Grind” or “Cairo, Illinois” or “Mobile”  in this case “Danville, VA Grind.”

The locations change, the low rollers frequenting them do not.

This is the temp tent Caesar’s located on a former textile plant property, with the actual casino finishing construction right behind it.