{"id":1355,"date":"2024-11-14T18:53:34","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T19:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buckinghamshire-removals.co.uk\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2024-11-21T14:11:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T14:11:51","slug":"iconic-guitar-smashing-ceremony-marks-opening-of-virginias-hard-rock-casino-bristol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buckinghamshire-removals.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/11\/14\/iconic-guitar-smashing-ceremony-marks-opening-of-virginias-hard-rock-casino-bristol\/","title":{"rendered":"Iconic Guitar Smashing Ceremony Marks Opening of Virginia\u2019s Hard Rock Casino Bristol"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\"><\/div>\n<p>Virginia\u2019s Hard Rock Hotel &amp; Casino Bristol is finally open for business, with a guitar-smashing spectacle marking the occasion rather than a ribbon cutting:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hard Rock Hotel &amp; Casino Bristol opened around noon with a guitar smash  instead of a ribbon cutting. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HCdRuvl7rC\">pic.twitter.com\/HCdRuvl7rC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Joe Dashiell (@jdashiell) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jdashiell\/status\/1857125262254833902?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s opening was four years in the making; over 200 items of music memorabilia are on display at the casino, including Elvis Presley\u2019s gold jacket and one of Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s dresses.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>almost 1,500 slot machines, dozens of table games, and a retail sportsbook<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Country musician Blake Shelton is performing at 8pm Thursday to a sold-out 2,000-seat venue at the property. Gamblers can now enjoy almost 1,500 slot machines, dozens of table games, and a retail sportsbook. Work is continuing on a 14-table poker room, as well.<\/p>\n<p>A temporary casino operated nearby during construction &#8211; its July 2022 opening marked the first time a legal casino opened for business in Virginia. The permanent property will employ about 1,400 people and hopes to surpass the $157m in net gaming revenue and $66m in gaming taxes the temporary facility generated in its first year.<\/p>\n<p>Hard Rock Bristol only became a reality in November 2020 when voters passed referendums allowing five cities in the state to develop casinos. Developers broke ground in December 2022 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vegasslotsonline.com\/news\/2024\/06\/06\/hard-rock-pushes-grand-opening-of-permanent-bristol-virginia-casino-resort-to-fall-2024\/\">changed plans from a phased opening during this summer to a full-fledged launch in late fall<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vegasslotsonline.com\/news\/2024\/11\/14\/iconic-guitar-smashing-ceremony-marks-opening-of-virginias-hard-rock-casino-bristol\/\">Iconic Guitar Smashing Ceremony Marks Opening of Virginia\u2019s Hard Rock Casino Bristol<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vegasslotsonline.com\/news\">Vegas Slots Online News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-justify mb-2\" >Virginia\u2019s Hard Rock Hotel &amp; Casino Bristol is finally open for business, with a guitar-smashing spectacle marking the occasion rather than a ribbon cutting: Hard Rock Hotel &amp; Casino Bristol opened around noon with a guitar smash instead of a ribbon cutting. pic.twitter.com\/HCdRuvl7rC &mdash; Joe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/buckinghamshire-removals.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/buckinghamshire-removals.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/buckinghamshire-removals.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buckinghamshire-removals.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buckinghamshire-removals.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/buckinghamshire-removals.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1356,"href":"http:\/\/buckinghamshire-removals.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions\/1356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buckinghamshire-removals.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buckinghamshire-removals.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buckinghamshire-removals.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}