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319 N 3rd Street | Cranfills Gap, Texas | 254-597-1100

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Here at the Toad we are just a family bar and grill. We don't try to stand out, we just want everyone in The Gap to have a good time. However, People, the Music, food and yes even Vegas has made our little place a stopping point on the map. Enjoy our clippings and videos!

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Residents of tiny Cranfills Gap, Texas, win free Vegas trip

12:00 AM CST on Saturday, December 6, 2008
Angela K. Brown, The Associated Press 

The tiny town of Cranfills Gap, Texas, really needs a vacation.

At least that's the opinion of Las Vegas tourism officials, who've decided to fly nearly half of the 350 residents to the desert playground as part of a five-day getaway and publicity stunt.
Up to 120 people – those who could get off work and were over age 21 – will fly in one jet to Sin City next weekend and stay in swanky hotels, eat at fancy restaurants and see glitzy shows – all for free. The catch: They'll be followed the entire time by video cameras for tourism commercials to air early next year.
They won't get any spending money to gamble or shop during their few hours of free time each day. But for many in the town about 75 miles southwest of the Dallas-Fort Worth area, it's a perfect pre-holiday getaway.
"It couldn't have come at a better time," said Tanya Davidson, 33, who plans to marry her fiancé in a drive-through wedding chapel there. "We had decided to get married at the end of the year or early next year, and when we heard about this trip, we said, 'Let's do it there.' "
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority is spending $2.5 million for the trip and marketing campaign. Officials looked at small towns nationwide and, after several visits, chose Cranfills Gap – a farming and ranching town with one gas station, one bank, a bar and grill, and few other businesses.
"It really is the quintessential American town," said Doug Finelli, one of the creative directors of R&R Partners, the advertising agency doing the marketing campaign. "The people are really welcoming, and everyone works really hard. Most people work multiple jobs, and many people without kids even volunteer at the school."
Cranfills Gap Mayor David Witte said the trip planned for Dec. 13-17 has been the talk of the town. 
"It'll give people an opportunity to go somewhere they wouldn't have had a chance to go to normally," he said.
This campaign will supplement the memorable "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas" commercials and will target middle America, said Terry Jicinsky, senior vice president of marketing for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.

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