Discussion Groups / ESL Teaching / May 2004

Can you tell me what cartoon casinos are? I searched the google search
engine for it and looked it up in a few different dictionaris in vain.

Those words were found in the following sentence.

What I'd always liked about Biloxi was the decay, the things falling
apart, the crap along the beach, the skeletons of abandoned hotels,
the trashy warehouses and the rundown piers jutting out into the dirty
water, so I wasn't thrilled that in the last five years our dinky
coast town had been turned into an outlet-mall version of Las Vegas,
with a dozen *cartoon casinos*, lots of gussied-up Motel 6 hotel
rooms, an ocean of slicked-back hair, and a big increase in unsavory
tourists.

Thank you for your help.