One of Las Vegas' longest-standing and most historic hotels is shuttering its doors after nearly 67 years to make room for a new Major League Baseball stadium. Tropicana Las Vegas closed on Tuesday, ...
The iconic property opened on April 4, 1957 and was home to the city’s longest-running cabaret Ethan Miller/Getty The Tropicana Las Vegas Hotel has closed its doors after more than six decades of ...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — In the 1971 film “Diamonds are Forever,” James Bond stays in a swanky suite at the Tropicana Las Vegas. “I hear that the Hotel Tropicana is quite comfortable,” Agent 007 says. It was ...
Louis Armstrong and Benny Goodman performed there. Gladys Knight and Wayne Newton had residencies in its theatre. Magicians Siegfried & Roy made their Las Vegas debut there. And James Bond checked ...
The Tropicana Las Vegas closed its doors for the final time on Tuesday, just two days shy of their 67th anniversary. Just before 1 p.m. on Tuesday, guards began to lock up the doors for the final time ...
The Tropicana Las Vegas hotel — famous as both a Rat Pack haunt and a monument to mobster lore — was imploded at 2:30 a.m. local time to make room for a baseball stadium. “Tonight we bid farewell to ...
The iconic building, which first opened on April 4, 1957, officially closed its doors to the public on April 2 The Tropicana Las Vegas is officially no more. On Wednesday, Oct. 9, the iconic building, ...
The Tropicana’s hotel towers are set to be imploded in early October to ready a portion of the site for the Oakland Athletics’ planned Las Vegas ballpark. Tropicana Las Vegas owner Bally’s Corp. and ...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — In the 1971 film “Diamonds are Forever,” James Bond stays in a swanky suite at the Tropicana Las Vegas. “I hear that the Hotel Tropicana is quite comfortable,” Agent 007 says. It was ...
When the Tropicana opened on Las Vegas Boulevard in 1957, it was the most expensive resort that had ever been built in the city. Glamorous and ritzy, the Tropicana was then Las Vegas' crème de la ...
Sin City blew a kiss goodbye to the Tropicana before first light Wednesday in an elaborate implosion that reduced to rubble the last true mob building on the Las Vegas Strip. The Tropicana’s hotel ...
Ethan Miller / Getty Images When the Tropicana opened on Las Vegas Boulevard in 1957, it was the most expensive resort that had ever been built in the city. Glamorous and ritzy, the Tropicana was then ...