The RX BASH will not BE AT the trop

New look in the works for the Tropicana
<SCRIPT language=JavaScript>var wn_last_ed_date = getLEDate("Feb23,2006,3:55 PM EST"); document.write(wn_last_ed_date);</SCRIPT>Feb 23, 2006, 03:55 PM EST

Plans are now in the works for one of the most impressive implosions we've seen yet - two giant towers at once. The company that owns the Tropicana is considering demolishing the hotel and re-building it from scratch.
One clear sign that the end my be near for the Tropicana is the fact that the hotel is no longer taking room reservations past April 15. News 3 got an exclusive preview of what the new resort might look like.
Details of the project are on file with the County. The drawings aren't very flashy, but they show a massive project with a three wing hotel, like the Mirage, with nearly 3,000 rooms. If it goes ahead there would likely be a double imlosion of the old towers.
Lebene Ohene is the County Planner who sees all the mega-resort plans that get submitted. She believes this is a good time for the Tropicana to catch up with the neighborhood.
"If you look at that corner there are three major resorts that have been built there, so this will finally make everything new on that corner," said Ohene.
Aztar, the Arizona Corporation that owns the Tropicana, says no decision has been made yet on whether to go ahead with the new resort. They point out that just because the Tropicana is no longer taking reservations beyond April doesn't necessarily mean the property is about to close.
The Tropicana is one of at least five hotels on the Strip that could be demolished within the next year to make way for massive ne projects.
The next Las Vegas hotel to be imploded will be The Boardwalk. It shut down last month and is scheduled for demolition in early March.

Oh my god. The first book I hung out as degenerate for 3 years was the Trop.
After begging Bobby Davis for a year he finally gave me my first Job in the industry there. His assisant was and still is Donny Dabacco aka the fabulous one who is a wise guys wise guy from the days before the IBM series one hit the strip and changed the industry forever. I used to tell him in my baby bear days how I was going to be a wise guy one day and rule the strip. I can still hear him laughing. Mods dont laugh to hard now. He used to give me so many lectures about how things were in real world books and what I would be doing
once I got out there. Same for Bobby who started teaching me things before I worked for him. The comps he used to give us to the buffet there so we could save our 5 and 10 dollars for betting games was invaluable because we would have gone hungry otherwise.


Speaking of hunger. The Boardwalk was a true savior. Back in the days everyone the Boradwalk was really famous for about 4 things. 2 of which many who have come to this town Survived on. That was the 3 hamburgers or chicken sandwiches with cheese for a dollar or just sightly more and the dozen and a half donuts for a 1.29. I as well as many people LIVED on those things, on the real. Throw in the foot long hot dog and the all you can eat pancakes that if he was in that area of the casino Major Ripple himself would serve you when of a mind and would certainly talk to you. The Major everyone was true Las Vegas royalty and gave "little Stevie Wynn" his start in the buisness as well as several others who have Big Names, Big Money and Big Power in the world today.

In another time in place everyone it was considered a right of passage that you had to survive on the food at the Boardwalk, eat the hotdogs at the Westward Ho which you could add chili and cheese to for a little extra, you could go next door to slots of fun and wash everything down with 75 cent Heinekens and then wander back and pick up the free popcorn at the Westeard ho before wandering into the Dust or other places to settle down, make your bets and sweat things out for the night.


I am so sorry for you all that these places are not here anymore or worse yet if not just for a little time in your life you lived here in those times and did those things because thats what all who first moved here did to survive and all look back on fondly. Its tremendously sad in the end.