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The Mount Airy Casino Resort (formerly Mount Airy Lodge) is a casino and hotel located in Paradise Township, Pennsylvania. The casino resort has 188 hotel rooms, a 〔(Mount Airy gets table games approval )〕 casino with 1,800 slot machines and table games, four restaurants, a spa and salon, a nightclub and an 18-hole golf course. Mount Airy Casino and Resort is one of two AAA 4 Diamond Casino Resorts in Pennsylvania, the other being the Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem. ==History of the Location== Mount Airy Casino Resort is located on the site of the former Mount Airy Lodge, which closed in 2001. The original lodge was constructed in 1898 as an eight-room inn and was re-constructed in the 1950s into the Poconos' largest resort. In the Lodge's heyday in the 1960s and 1970s, Mount Airy had more than 890 rooms, indoor/outdoor pools, skiing, snowmobiling, ice skating, hiking, biking, horseback riding, archery, an 18 hole golf course, and paddle ball courts on over of property. The resort was known for being America's premier ''honeymoon hideaway'', with floor-to-ceiling mirrors, velvet-swagged canopy beds, and heart-shaped bathtubs. The artificial lake in front of the building (currently unused) served as a beach and boating venue. Mount Airy Lodge was also known for its top entertainment. The Crystal Room, Mount Airy Lodge's 2,000-seat auditorium had hosted headliners like Bob Hope, Milton Berle, Connie Francis, Red Buttons, Tony Bennett, Paul Anka and Nipsey Russell.〔(New York Times: Nov. 1, 2001 )〕 During the 1980s the resort saw a great decline in numbers of customers. Due to the loss of interest by consumers and increasing competition from cruise ships and Caribbean tourism, as well as increasing interest in vacations in areas such as Atlantic City and Las Vegas, Mount Airy went into foreclosure in November 1999.〔(Poconos Hot Spot Hits Skid Row )〕 Mount Airy Lodge closed for business on October 29, 2001. An investment company, Oaktree Capital Management, who had previously purchased the resort in 2000, sold it to developer Louis DeNaples in 2004.〔(DeNaples timeline )〕 The resort's contents were sold at an auction in March 2005 and the resort was torn down later that year to make way for the casino. Mount Airy Casino Resort officially opened in 2007.〔(First Pennsylvania Casino with Lodging Opens )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mount Airy Casino Resort」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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