Toscano's take-out serves up grub right next door. The mascot of the casino is a Carmen Miranda rip-off named Rio Rita who mambas around the casino with fruit on her head. While I was here, I saw many young women with teased hair and tourists in leisure wear. I also observed a first-grade field trip touring the joint. Employee costumes Inexplicably, dealers wear Hawaiian-style shirts with palm trees and neon colors.
Cocktail waitresses wear ruffly bathing suits in aqua, pink, and black.
I used to have a bathing suit just like that when I was six. The Rio consists of large mirrored towers in party-down hues of blue, violet, and red. These towers are surrounded by lots of palm trees, but otherwise the landscape is very dry, evoking the deforested sections of the Amazon basin. Carpet is festooned with colorful confetti and streamers. If it had a few splotches of vomit and some broken bottles, it would be just like a post-Carnival street.