As Las Vegas rapidly evolved in the following decades, including a building boom of Strip mega resorts in the 1990s, the ...
Las Vegas said goodbye to the Tropicana casino early Wednesday morning, bringing down the last true mob-era structure on the Strip. Accompanied by fireworks, the implosion reduced the casino ...
Charges connected to the Tropicana alone resulted in five convictions. KLAS-TV reported that the resort also served as Michael Corleone's Las Vegas casino business in the 1972 film "The ...
Oct. 9 (UPI) --An implosion early Wednesday morning reduced the Tropicana Las Vegas casino to rubble to make way for construction of the new home of the Las Vegas Athletics baseball team.
Tropicana, the Las Vegas casino once associated with the mob, closes its doors Las Vegas loses one of its classic casinos this week. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with UNLV historian Michael ...
The Tropicana’s hotel towers were expected to tumble in 22 seconds at 2:30 am.. The celebration would include a fireworks display and drone show. The city hasn’t blown up a Strip casino since ...