10/09/2024

Vegas Implodes Historic Tropicana to Make Room for A’s Stadium

The casino-hotel’s demolition follows a long-held city tradition

If ever there’s a sleepy time in Las Vegas, it’s 2:30 a.m. on a Wednesday. This Wednesday, however, thousands gathered in the middle of a midweek night on the south end of the Strip to witness the implosion of the historic Tropicana Las Vegas hotel and casino.

Tearing down casinos is how Vegas molts, and the Tropicana was the first such implosion since 2016. It was the first since drones became standard parts of sky shows, and the first since professional sports became part of any Vegas reinvention equation. This time, the extremely Vegas occasion was to make room for the A’s new baseball stadium as the MLB team moves from Oakland.

There were no tickets for sale nor public viewing areas set up — "for safety reasons," according to the Bally's Corporation, which organized the whole shebang, in partnership with the A's.

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