World of Hurt
A Novel of Las Vegas
Richard J Pietschmann
Chapter 10
"The Lucky was found in a neighborhood near the Strip that had sprung up after World War II as a convenient address for casino and hotel workers. Everybody still called it Naked City, the name coming from the showgirls who once had gotten their full-body tans around its swimming pools and on its rooftops. Naked City now was somewhat less glamorous: A dozen tight streets cornered against railroad tracks with worn one- and two-story buildings slumped into the desert. Anyone looking for a convenient patch of original desert where a man with a shovel, a full moon and some alone time could bury something could do worse than the needle-strewn empty lots near the Lucky."
