Opened in 1957 with three stories and 300 hotel rooms, it had ties to organized crime, largely through reputed mobster Frank Costello.
The Tropicana is imploded early in the morning while viewed from the Foundation Room at the Mandalay Bay on Wednesday, Oct. 09, 2024, in Las Vegas. @Left_Eye_Imagesbefore first light Wednesday in an elaborate implosion that reduced to rubble the last true mob building on the Las Vegas Strip.
From then on, Schumacher said, there was a sense in Las Vegas that destruction at that magnitude was worth witnessing. Behind the scenes of the casino’s grand opening, the Tropicana had ties to organized crime, largely through reputed mobster Frank Costello.
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