Las Vegas' Frontier Hotel Casino Imploded
The 65-year-old New Frontier, the second-oldest property on the Las Vegas strip, was taken down with the requisite fireworks and cheering November 13 to make room for a bigger, more palatial hotel casino.
The Frontier was the venue where Elvis Presley made his Las Vegas debut in 1956 and also featured such entertainers as Wayne Newton and Siegfried and Roy. Once owned by eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, it endured one of the longest union strikes in U.S. history.
I always feel a nostalgic twinge when one of the old casinos is moved out to make way for the new. Farewell, old friend. You went out in grand style.
Doug
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I agree, it is sad to see an historical monument demolished. But you realize that another, more spectacular, Phoenix will replace it. That is, until it, too, is demolished and the cycle again is repeated.
I don't feel the same nostalgia toward these tired, old casinos as you. They are like any other run down old dilapidated building. When due to either neglect or increasing cost of maintenance and repair, it stops attracting customers, it is time to knock it down ans start over with something new that people want to visit. I say good for them. It was time.
As for the fireworks? It gets on the news and provides a positive spin on the demolition. For the owners, it's a good thing.
Out with the old, in with the new. It has become common place on the strip. But this one was pretty old. It was time.
Was this casino even still running? I never go down that far on the strip so I don't remember seeing it in years. But 65 years is a long run. It was time.
Love the fireworks when they do this. Wish I had known, I might have driven in just to watch the show.
There are a few other casinos on and off the strip that could use this treatment. Down with the old and up with the new! Make Vegas beautiful!