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The John Batchelor Show

#PacificWatch: #VegasReport: Foot traffic hopping. Park Fire surging.@JCBliss

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

News, Books, Society & Culture, Arts

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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0:00.0

This is a

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the world. I'm John Bachelor.

0:03.0

Jeff Bliss is here.

0:04.0

Jeff Bliss is Pacific Watch

0:06.0

and Vegas Report.

0:08.0

Jeff, live from Las Vegas.

0:10.0

There is a missing piece of Vegas history the Tropicana. Jeff, where did it go? What's happened to the Tropicana? Good evening to you.

0:21.0

Good evening to you. This great old resort, which has been here since I believe it was

0:25.4

1957, slated for demolition, which

0:28.9

they're going to replace with the new Major League Baseball

0:31.7

Stadium that the Oakland A's will one day fill up in

0:34.7

2028 they believe. You know they're right on schedule and taking this place

0:39.2

apart and they're looking at an implosion of the two remaining towers there sometime in mid-October they believe they don't have an exact date yet

0:47.5

But it'll be a big spectacular thing people come from all over to watch it. It will be filmed and probably used in future movies.

0:55.1

But it's, I went by the site yesterday.

0:58.2

And really all you have is these two gutted towers

1:01.8

that look like anything from a bombed out war zone in a third world country.

1:05.8

It's just two massive concrete structures.

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Nothing left that would tell you it's the Tropicana unless you knew it was the Tropicana. Where are the parts?

1:14.0

They were selling seats and windows and ailed carpet?

1:19.0

Where is it?

1:20.0

Well, I will say the items of historic significance were removed from the property and had been

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