The women all wear pants, and if you see a man in a suit, he's probably a floorwalker. Maybe the working girls hang on the fringes. They come in droves by car and tour bus from as far away as Chicago. One old lady was seen maneuvering around the casino floor with a walker. Another was playing the slots with a tube leading from her nose to a portable oxygen tank, even though people were smoking all around her.
Casinos have no no-smoking areas.
By law, Tunica's casinos are riverboats, but they're boats in name only. They sit on barges floating in slips cut into the river flats near the Mississippi. Their ancillary hotels, restaurants and other buildings are on dry land. Walking from a hotel or souvenir shop into a casino, it's hard to tell where the land stops and the riverboat begins. There is no motion.