![]() Now I’m very leery about making projections about Laughlin’s growth or the character of that growth.”Ī skimpy patch of history is in order here.Ī mere 18 years ago, an enterprising ex-Minnesotan named Don Laughlin (today’s town is named after him) piloted his private plane over this remote spot across the Colorado River from the drowsy little recreational backwash of Bullhead City, Ariz. ![]() ![]() “All the demographics I did have been blown to smithereens. “Every projection I’ve made about Laughlin since I bought my land here in 1978 has taken half the (predicted) time to happen,” said Robert Bilbray, a Las Vegas lawyer turned Laughlin developer who owns 80% of the private land available here for residential development. And the Laughlin of yesterday was a poor bedraggled thing for which only the most optimistic of visionaries would have predicted survival. In fact, the only guarantee that can be attached to this mini-Baghdad-by-the-Colorado River is this: Propelled by the infusion of still more gambling-related investment than already exists, the Laughlin of tomorrow won’t resemble the Laughlin of today any more than the Laughlin of today approximates the Laughlin of yesterday. To call this a boom town is an outrageous understatement.
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