image for illustration: The Tropicana, Las Vegas by Matthäus Wander, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Las Vegas — Sin City – said goodbye to the Tropicana in an elaborate implosion that demolished ‘the last true mob building on the Las Vegas Strip’, reports NPR.
NPR writes:
The Tropicana’s hotel towers tumbled in a celebration that included a fireworks display… the first implosion in nearly a decade/..’
… the implosion cleared land for a $1.5 billion baseball stadium for the relocating Oakland Athletics, part of the city’s latest rebrand…
… opened in 1957 with three stories and 300 hotel rooms split into two wings…
… ‘Old Vegas, it’s going,’ Joe Zappulla, a teary-eyed New Jersey resident, said at the time….
