{"id":41306,"date":"2024-10-25T17:41:17","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T16:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=41306"},"modified":"2024-10-25T17:41:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T16:41:17","slug":"ihbc-features-heritage-from-the-global-doorstep-implosion-brings-down-tropicana-casino-in-vegas-to-make-way-for-baseball-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=41306","title":{"rendered":"IHBC features \u2018Heritage from the (global) doorstep\u2019: Implosion brings down Tropicana casino in Vegas to make way for baseball stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Tropicana_Las_Vegas_entrance_by_Matthaus_Wander_Commons_Wikimedia.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Tropicana_Las_Vegas_entrance_by_Matthaus_Wander_Commons_Wikimedia.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41307\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n<h6><em>image for illustration: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Tropicana_Las_Vegas,_entrance.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Tropicana<\/a>, Las Vegas by Matth\u00e4us Wander, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>, via Wikimedia Commons<\/em><\/h6>\n\n<h3>Las Vegas \u2014 Sin City \u2013 said goodbye to the Tropicana in an elaborate implosion that demolished \u2018the last true mob building on the Las Vegas Strip\u2019, reports NPR.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>NPR writes:<\/p>\n<p>The Tropicana&#8217;s hotel towers tumbled in a celebration that included a fireworks display\u2026 the first implosion in nearly a decade\/..\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 the implosion cleared land for a $1.5 billion baseball stadium for the relocating Oakland Athletics, part of the city&#8217;s latest rebrand\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 opened in 1957 with three stories and 300 hotel rooms split into two wings\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 \u2018Old Vegas, it\u2019s going,\u2019 Joe Zappulla, a teary-eyed New Jersey resident, said at the time\u2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/10\/09\/nx-s1-5147436\/las-vegas-tropicana-casino-implosion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>image for illustration: The Tropicana, Las Vegas by Matth\u00e4us Wander, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Las Vegas \u2014 Sin City \u2013 said goodbye to the Tropicana in an elaborate implosion that demolished \u2018the last true mob building on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=41306\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,105,29,106],"class_list":["post-41306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog","tag-building","tag-entertainment","tag-heritage","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41308,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41306\/revisions\/41308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}