The Trop is dropped: See the implosion from every angle
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- The seconds ticked away early Wednesday morning until the husk of the Tropicana Las Vegas resort, deserted since its April 2024 closing date, would meet a final and spectacular end, bringing to a close the era of the 67-year-old structure once a bastion for visitors from across the country.
The Las Vegas classic was set to come down in style with a seven-minute celebration involving 550 drones and 150 “pyrodrones” counting down to the controlled demolition of the resort originally erected in 1957.
Phil Grucci, CEO and president of Fireworks by Grucci, previewed the celebration ahead of the demolition, revealing that the show will feature images of the Tropicana logo, the iconic “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign, and a tribute to the Athletics franchise, whose proposed $1.5 billion, 33,000-seat ballpark could open in the footprint of the former Tropicana in time for the 2028 season.
What else will occupy the 35-acre site, aside from the 9-acre stadium, is a mystery. In July, Bally’s, the company that controlled most of the site, entered into a merger agreement with its top stockholder, Standard General.
A total of 917,400 square feet will be imploded with the use of nearly 2,200 pounds of explosives. The demolition sequence will begin with the implosion of the 23-story Paradise Tower and end with the implosion of the 23-story Club Tower. It’s expected both buildings will collapse within 22 seconds after the implosion button is pressed, according to the Bally’s Corporation news release.
A historic presence on the Las Vegas Strip, the iconic resort served as Michael Corleone’s Las Vegas casino business in the 1972 film “The Godfather” and hosted a stay in the entertainment capital of the world for James Bond, portrayed by Sean Connery in 1971’s “Diamonds Are Forever.”
Wednesday morning’s implosion will be the first since 2016, when The Riviera was imploded in two separately controlled demolitions, one on June 14 and the other on Aug. 16. Other long-gone Las Vegas hotels include The New Frontier, The Stardust Resort and Casino, Castaways Hotel and Casino, Boardwalk Hotel and Casino, Bourbon Street Hotel and Casino, Desert Inn, El Rancho, Aladdin, Hacienda, Sands, Landmark, and The Dunes.
Goodbye Tropicana from a teary Brit. First trip to the USA was November 2002 to get married. First night we left our hotel (Excalibur) to go exploring the four hotels on our interchange, Excalibur, New York, MGM and ended up at the Trop late at night (about 2am). The only bar open was full of a wedding party for a US Marine and the group were intrigued as to who these 2 Brits were and how we were enjoying LV. Once we told the we were UK military and had recently returned from the gulf it was like we had been best friends forever. What a night and what a start to our marriage. Kept meeting some of the group throughout our stay and just had the best time ever, great memeories.
Ok?
Stupid story. Pathetic
Here for well over 30 years. As people cheer, this breaks my heart in so many ways. The memories, the stories and so much more. A true icon is gone. They will never get it.
Still have the Tropicana ashtray mom and dad brought home in 1967.
It's behind the bar in the basement.
That's cool!
What a cool relic!
Aw that's sweet
So your parents were cheap, petty thieves.
That's pretty cool !!! ..at first I'm like why are these people acting like it's their home than I genuinely sat and thought about it .. its just honoring a place they have memories it's not my business to judge
So sad to see The Tropicana go. 😢
Been here for 37 years....lots of memories at the Trop... Farewell to a Vegas staple.. 😢
This sucks...another piece of vegas history blown up.
and for the A's, really, lol
Looks like September 11
It’s a trash casino and was gross
@@brandonschenk815 many people only can pay a trash casino.
@brandonschenk815: All Casino-Hotels start out new and fancy. They depreciate just like an old car. With your mentality, all 1957 Chevy's would be sent to the crusher.
My daughter had the most beautiful wedding there in their Chapel in 1991. Her father in law was a dealer there for nearly 40 years. So many memories for so many people. It will be missed! The skyline has changed forever.
damn homie is shaking the people more then the building is look at him rofl lmfao
First time ever trip out of Arkansas.
@@dvader3263 i bet it was fun fam
I painted backlit signage for the Trop in 1987.
Thanx for the memories😢😢😢
😢 all the great memories. Makes me remember my best Vegas trip.
The world is changing quickly
An end of an era, cheers 🍻
Thanks to all the workers that helped to keep that place going for so long.
🎲♥️♠️♦️♣️
Stayed at the Tropicana a couple of decades ago. Returning the first evening I was trying to puzzle out which was the right tower / elevator when a woman in a sharp business suit asked me if I needed help finding my room. I said yes, gave her my room number, and she took me directly to the right elevator and up to my floor. I thanked her and went into my room, thinking how nice it was that the hotel had staff on hand to help guests find their rooms... then it dawned on me... she wasn't wearing a hotel ID. She was indeed "working" that evening, just not for the hotel! (Nice disguise!)
😂😂😂
"I thought it was really particular when she showed me to my room, then started taking off her clothes. I gave her the best tip I had."
This makes me sad
So much history gone in a matter of seconds… amazing job to all involved
That drone show going on and the really cool countdown... so cool.
This is like watching a Execution
Like a abortion ?
Great compilation without any BS.
except the awful music
I spend so many memorable vacations in Tropicana ❤❤
As a kid ran around the trop had a great time in 1975
Another Major street now named after a bygone glorious landmark of a bygone era. It was a beautiful town once in a more elegant time. Now it's becoming a consumerist dystopian landscape every passing day. Unrecognizable to those who once loved its charm and charisma. RiP Tropicana. May we all follow You soon to The eternal Hot country.
Well put
I lived in Vegas from 1998 till 2014. I saw it go from an adult playground where a king's buffet cost 5 bucks to a grifter town populated by drug addicts, hookers, homeless, losers, shucksters, shysters, corrupt cops, corrupt local government, and a Mayor lawyer who used to defend the Mob.
RIP Las Vegas. The whole place is a big tourist trap toilet.
Ummm….. that’s what Las Vegas has always been and always will be. The city never had any charm. It will always be most well known for it’s paradise of trashy and hopelessly addicted gamblers.
@@RevAlSharptonz shut up fucktard and no one ever asked you
Sad to see an end to an era ☹️☹️☹️
Good Times ❤ dam them were the best days and the new generation is lame 😂
Looks like a mini 911
Always went to the Trop when in LV. Great pool!
I am always impressed with the dust clouds from these demolitions.
asbestos
Silicosis
Sad see the building that held so many memories both good and bad but, protected everyone while they slept while gave others employments, wealth of winning and the sadness of leaving broke.
Great recap, best coverage of what's out there! The Trop was something else....!
I'm so sad... my wife and I have so many great memories... Missing my great friend Mike,he lived in vegas for 15 years...rip Mike and Tropicana. 😢
My honeymoon at the Tropicana 😮😮😮
I remember the Tropicana Country Club that was across the street behind the Marina!
Thank you! Totally awesome
That guy was trying so hard to rock the womans world that he even tried shaking her to make her think the explosions were bigger than they really were.
Looks like a day I viewed on television just over 23 years ago.
Really??? That's a comparison worth making?? Not to mention that, no it doesn't. That disaster looked entirely different. Sorry not sorry
@@leaarinwarkentine A comparison worth making? I truly think so. However - I am confused. What prior 23 plus "disaster" do you think I am referring to? I am simply asking because I don't know how you would infer anything at all as a result of my extremely vague comment. Please elaborate with regards to all. Thank you, and remember - tons of thermite are a helluva wake up. But, I digress.
Definitely reminds me a well.... looks very, eerily similar.
Juat think. That hotel was built and was standing 2 years before Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper were killed in the airplane crash in Febuary of 1959. Tropicanna has been standing a very long time.
The car alarm at the end was priceless lol
I don't get the celebration of the destruction of an icon?
Mew beginnings 🤡
Pew pew.
its complicated
Because it was an icon.
Now, wait for the building 7 comments.
I agree!
It did look exactly like the 3 towers "going down."
I came to comments looking for WTC 7 comments lol
Waiting for the comments to load thinking "Cmoooon building 7!" 😂 but really all 3 towers if you're really woke #NanoThermite
@@Raulsta1985 "Truth lives a wretched life, but never dies" -Yiddish proverb (paraphrased)
@@pleaseunderstand6669 “the FBI found the hijacker’s passport nearby if you can believe that.” News reporter barely believing the teleprompter.
I got to visit that hotel several months before the door was closed permanently. Unfortunately I didn’t even notice the glass ceiling at the time but glad it was saved.
Sad to see it go!
The new generations and all the young people don’t care about iconic buildings or nostalgic places, outside of their social media, cell phones, tablets, TikTok, RUclips, they have no feelings or emotions for what the majority of general public cares about.
Sad but probably true, they are only cheering because they got to attend the event, but probably don’t have a clue of what that building was or what it represented.
I wish you weren't right about this. As someone who's apart of the younger generation the whole thing just broke my heart even though I never set foot in the Tropicanna. There's plenty of places they couldve picked to build the new A's stadium but they picked the Trop and we (nevadian tax payers) are the ones stuck funding it. So sad
That was that last hotel I stayed in on my last visit..It was one of the few of the originals still around.. Good Bye :(
My parents used to go there for brunch on their honeymoon. It's unfortunate that it's now gone for good
Never stayed there, but I sure liked the casino,, old school. Shame these are gone
Never knew what a spectacle an implosion is, to the point that it needs fireworks and such. It's so bitter AND sweet
1990, Tropicana was the first Vegas hotel I ever stayed in. RIP Trop.
Goodbye to a grand old lady, last of a bye gone era. Would off been nice to see an overhead Ariel from a drone advantage. Waiting to see the NEW HOME of the Las Vegas Athletics in the next few years. 👍
I have fond memories of the Tropicana with my family in the 70's. I'll miss her.
Ashes to Ashes, dust to dust 🤧 time marches on!
I met my wife there for the first time and saw my ex for the last time all in the same day. That was a crazy day at the Tropicana.
I'm glad I can say I stayed at the Tropicana a few times. Sad to see it go. Vegas will forever be my second home.
And they'll change Tropicana Ave to some other dystopian name. Las Vegas is slowly transforming into a smart city..
Gosh, looks just like Bldg 7
I guess if that's what you want it to look like? geez
Isn't it time for you to give Laura Loomer the daily screw? Aren't you on call for that purpose?
building 1+2+7
😬
Vegas is not the town for those who have sentimental feelings. Buh-bye to an icon.
No place is.
@@kauaihawaii5836 not true. Many cities have buildings marked on the National Register of Historic Places. Downtown Chicago has many skyscrapers from the 1930's that aren't going anywhere.
Dam I got goosebumps Vegas is my second home I lived out there for seven years and still go back to visit almost every other month ❤😢good bye Tropicana
Thanks for the great views of the demolition of the two towers. You showed it from several angles and it was great to see. I did visit the Tropicana one time but did not stay there. It is just one more of the original strip casinos that made Las Vegas great. Hopefully the new development will be something that Las Vegas can be proud of and will continue the tradition of growth.
You do not want to breathe this !
I loved in Las Vegas for 16 years. I was one of the comstruction workers who built the Mandalay Bay. It saddens me to see a huge structure like this destroyed. Most people have no idea how much work there is in building a structure like this.
Making way for another Corporate Enterprise that will legally steal from the misguided fools of the world! 😂😂😂😂
all these casinos should be illegal to even begin with. 😂
These corporations for years have basically taken advantage of people's addiction to gambling.
If drugs are illegal because they can make you an addict and ultimately kill you, then how come casinos are still operating if the gambling industry can also addict someone and kill them?
Many people die of suicide because of huge amounts of loss
Fell kinda like another building. 🧐
Nobody does demo like Vegas
check out the world trade Center
Last of the og buildings when Vegas was a special place today its not and it shows by what's replacing this once great place
The guy standing in the middle has a kind heart ❤️ he continuously checked on his two friends, patting them on the back in support. So sweet
New memories will born.
Man, makes me wish I grabbed something from the Tropicana living here. Missed my chance.
The city is growing so fast, but our education system in nevada has not made any progress for decades.
Cuz if became proficient in math Noone would be at casinos
Farewell my first Vegas casino jobsite! 1990-Jr year@Valley High-Buffet Busser and it rocked! First implosion since that I missed... It cut too deep. Viva Las Vegas!
WolfmanVegas!!!
I went there in the late 80s. Actually seems kind of sad to lose it. Lot of history
K dude... chill out. Shaking those people like they're about to witness Jesus returning or some shit.
Give it to Vegas to make a show out of everything!
Truly something when the Vegas Trop is being torn down, the other is being used as shelter during a disaster.
They're so good at it!
Goodbye Tropicana thank you for being a part of vegas
Sad
We stayed there in October 2000. It was a wonderful hotel. I'm very sad to see it go. There's not too many hotels from "yesteryear" left, and it's sad!!
I can barely breathe right now and I'm inside my home thousands of miles away!
crapped out in Vegas once back in the day.Had a day to kill with virtually no cash. Tropicana passed out free coupon booklets. A few free hot dog and coke coupons held me over until my flight home.
Thanks for sharing
Awesome
Goodbye Tropicana i will go back and not seeing you anymore next year
Was there a reason why they did this at 2:30am in the morning? Vegas is never a quite town, they couldn't of done it at 11pm or midnight?
Goodbye 👋 Tropicana Hotel Casino.
Rest In Peace Tropicana Hotel Casino 😢😢😢
The demolition companies sign is kinda genius. All you see is GG. As in good game.
Farewell Tropicana Hotel, we'll miss you!
Another one bites the dust!
Liked the video
This is beyond sad!An era gone!
Not to mention the fact they did it at 230 in the morning and I heard it at my house
It woke me up scaring me
And these idiots are applauding!
It’s almost like the buildings melt. It’s kind of trippy.
Ah my favorite memory of the Tropicana was laying by the pool and the staff announcing that they were closing the pool due to a biohazard. Turned out some guy didn't want to leave the swim-up blackjack table, so he just dropped a deuce at his seat. 😅
There is an MLB venue in Tampa called Tropicana 😳😳😳
All disappears eventually, everything and everyone. Enjoy while you can, make good memories.
The Vegas I knew growing up doesn’t exist anymore. Sad to see the old hotels with so much history be destroyed
And here I thought I clicked on a collab of Tropicana FIELD getting it’s “roof” ripped off. Thought it might have been an inside job….😂
Bummer, I got to see the Titanic exhibit and the Bodies exhibit at the Tropicana around 20 years ago. I was too young to gamble and it was an easy way to waste time while the adults gambled.
building seven comes to mind
I’m a musician. I played at the Tropicana many times over the years. I don’t play music anymore, but I think the Tropicana had become one of the ugliest resorts on the Strip. I say, GOOD RIDDANCE! Bring on the Athletics!!!!!!
"And there ain't nothing nobody can do about it"
I've been in and out of Vegas for the last 30 years or so.
Never once set foot in the Tropicana.
Still sad to see a landmark go.
And do my friends well day good night for time hath claimed its prize. But tonight can always last as long as we keep alive the memories of paradise......and the tropicana
Should start building Vegas like Saudi Arabian style city in the desert, instead of hulking Suburbs in the heat 😅 either way Vegas on a come up!
Fell like a...House Of CARDS