MAGAZINE
February 16, 2003 | By Fred Dickey, Fred Dickey last wrote for the magazine about Levi Strauss.
It's a beautiful Sunday evening in December on the edge of Temecula. Malls nearby are packed with customers, and so is a new $262-million gambling casino and resort owned by the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians. A few years ago, California's Indian casinos were shabby and claustrophobic. But this one wouldn't be out of place on the Las Vegas Strip.