Sin City said goodbye to the Tropicana with a flashy implosion in the early hours of Wednesday, marking the end of its mob era and making way for new construction on the Las Vegas Strip. The ...

The Tropicana Las Vegas hotel — famous as both a Rat Pack haunt and a monument to mobster lore — was imploded at 2:30 a.m. local time to make room for a baseball stadium. “Tonight we bid farewell to ...

LAS VEGAS — 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 ...

On October 9, the historic Tropicana Las Vegas hotel, which opened on April 4, 1957, was imploded to make room for a new baseball stadium. The third-oldest casino on the strip, Tropicana Las Vegas ...

The last remaining buildings of the Tropicana Las Vegas hotel and casino will be imploded in the wee hours of Wednesday morning. Only two hotel towers of the old resort remained standing Tuesday, six ...

The historic Tropicana casino-hotel on the Las Vegas strip was reduced to rubble on Wednesday, Oct. 9. The demolition lasted 22 seconds. The hotel was an iconic site for nearly seven decades and was ...

Built in 1957, the Tropicana Las Vegas was the third-oldest casino on the Strip before it was demolished Wednesday morning to make way for a new stadium for the former Oakland Athletics. In 22 seconds ...

The end of the Tropicana is also a new beginning. Channel 13's Ryan Ketcham spoke with the demo team to get answers on what will happen to the remains of the Trop. LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — The historic ...

LAS VEGAS — Sin City blew a kiss goodbye to the Tropicana before first light Wednesday in an elaborate implosion that reduced to rubble the last true mob building on the Las Vegas Strip. The Tropicana ...