The Garden City Casino Construction Webcam

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This is the view outside the window at my office. Sort of. The site of the new hotel and cardroom that they are building is about half a mile away, so I had to MacGyver a telephoto webcam togeether from a Chatcam HD and half a pair of cheap binoculars. The image quality isn't spectacular, but considering how little I spent on it I'm pretty happy with how well it actually works.

The webcam only updates from 7 AM to 7 PM. There isn't much to look at after hours when it's dark outside.

It went online on the first day of summer, serving its very first image at 7:35 AM on June 21st.

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