Beyond the inner suburbs she could see the Great Hara's Tower . We must set out to find a heart at the centre of that city. So Dorothy and her merry band set forth on that golden road Dominion. When they came upon a gate house, they found the Queen of Hearts playing Wheel of Fortune with Alice, a sultry croupier from Vegas. Alice welcomed Dorothy to the royal court, requesting that she put on tinted glasses, because the Good Witch of Waitakere insisted that all visitors to Emeraldland must believe that everything is green.
Towers are what fairytales and fantasies are made of.
Casino' is also laden with meaning . Symbolically complementary to 'tower', casino denotes opportunity, risk, hope and desire, of fortunes being won and lost. In Auckland it was a stroke of genius to combine the elements of tower and casino . By bringing them together, the aura and mystic of both are raised. The construction and marketing of tower casino is engulfed in unconscious and implicit references to 5000 years of mythology.