Approaching the end of an era: Las Vegas edition

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The Riviera closed yesterday after 60 years. There is now only one of the old-time Vegas Strip hotels remaining - the Tropicana stands alone.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/05/travel/riv...index.html

[Paul F.]

I stayed at the Riviera last year.
I can see why it closed. Shabby, really run down, the hallway I was in smelled like urine, and nobody that worked there seemed to give a crap.
Sad, yes... but it was probably time.

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Paul F. wrote:
I stayed at the Riviera last year.
I can see why it closed. Shabby, really run down, the hallway I was in smelled like urine, and nobody that worked there seemed to give a crap.
Sad, yes... but it was probably time.

I agree with all of the above - the Riv's been in that state of disrepair for a good while now, actually. Still a sad day, though.

[Paul F.]

Yup...
Las Vegas has become a city with no history. They tore it all down.
Some of it needed to go, but it's still sad that it's virtually all gone now.

[testcase]

The Riviera was shabby 15+ years ago the one time I stayed there. :boink:

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testcase wrote:
The Riviera was shabby 15+ years ago the one time I stayed there. :boink:

Yup. That was approximately the last time I stayed there, also.

[colonel panic]

There's still Circus Circus. Not from the same era but cheap and scary.

[GGD]

Isn't Caesars Palace from pretty close to that era, early 1960s instead of late 1950s.

[Manlove]

"Las Vegas has become a city with no history. They tore it all down."
Are you implying it had some, ever? You young Americans!

[Paul F.]

Manlove wrote:
"Las Vegas has become a city with no history. They tore it all down."
Are you implying it had some, ever? You young Americans!

History's gotta start somewhere!