The End of the Tropicana

I woke up this morning and wrote this article in remembrance of the Tropicana for casinos.com. The famous now defunct casino will be imploded tonight on what’s known as the graveyard shift. How appropriate.

When it comes to Las Vegas and history, not much remains of the grid of famous boulevards and their original landmark locations that continue to blur the increasingly impersonal and dehumanizing latticework of where we live, work, and play.

The Hacienda — gone.
The Aladdin — gone.
The Sands — gone.
The Desert Inn — gone.

Now, those names are just congested streets.

And late tonight, the Tropicana too shall bite the dust, its crashing fall taking our memories along with it to be carried away by the wind.

Thanks to casinos.com for the platform to remember and share. And thanks to the Tropicana for serving as the host of so many memories.