Awesome Video: Vegas Held A Massive 5 Minute Firework Show Before Imploding The Tropicana

Come for the implosion of the Trop, stay for the extremely Vegas 5 minute firework show beforehand. Only Vegas could blow up a legendary property and celebrate it like it's the 4th of July. 

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AP News - This time, the implosion cleared land for a $1.5 billion baseball stadium for the relocating Oakland Athletics, part of the city’s latest rebrand into a sports hub.

That will leave only the Flamingo from the city’s mob era on the Strip. But, Schumacher said, the Flamingo’s original structures are long gone. The casino was completely rebuilt in the 1990s.

The Tropicana, the third-oldest casino on the Strip, closed in April after welcoming guests for 67 years.

Will the Trop be missed? I guess some people will miss it. Chain smoking single mothers, slot players, and the mole people likely make up 95% of those people. 

I will say this though- they added into that article that the Flamingo is the only Strip casino left from the mob era. So while it's easy for me to poo-poo the Trop…I stay at the Flamingo every summer for WSOP. It's right across the street from where WSOP is held and it's dirt cheap….and surprisingly clean! So my condolences do go out to anyone who used the Trop to stay for free when they went to Vegas.

The good news- they are building the baseball stadium on that lot. I'm a huge fan of sports in Vegas. The Knights playing on the strip has made Winter trips to Sin City so much better. It's so easy to get to from the Strip and a great way to spend a couple hours. A baseball team on the strip is going to make for a helllll of a drinking experience- there will be no place drunker per capita during a day game than that stadium. It's unfortunate John Fisher gets to reap the benefits of having a team in Vegas, though. Nobody deserves it less. I wish MLB would grab their balls and force him out of the league, but instead they are going to give him every resource he needs to move the A's to Vegas. 

All in all though, new is always better. I think all old, dusty buildings should be blown up and new shiny ones should be built. Besides the Flamingo. Keep the Flamingo forever.