CRYSTAL chandeliers that once glimmered above a swanky lounge, bright blue costume feathers that cloaked shimmying showgirls, and fake palm trees that evoked a desert oasis – these are just some the artifacts making their way from the latest casino graveyards of Las Vegas into Sin City history.
The kitsch comes from the Tropicana, which was demolished in a spectacular implosion on Oct 9 to make room for a new baseball stadium; and from The Mirage, the Strip’s first mega resort, which dealt its last cards in July and is set to reopen as a new casino nearly 40 years after it originally debuted.
