#PacificWatch: #VegasReport: Mirage and Tropicana replaced by Hard Rock Hotel and MLB. @JCBliss
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 31 August 2024
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| 0:00.0 | This is |
| 0:02.0 | I on the world with John Bachelor. |
| 0:04.0 | Here's John Bachelor. |
| 0:07.0 | Jeff Bliss is Pacific Watch, Vegas Report. |
| 0:10.0 | We are watching Vegas transform itself into a baseball town in addition to a very large |
| 0:18.8 | guitar which I fancy is being watched for very carefully by the sphere. Jeff, a very good evening to you. |
| 0:27.6 | The sphere has become a favorite of mine because it looks, it's easy to anthropomorphize with that big eye that |
| 0:34.8 | watches everything including that car race that happened last year and will |
| 0:40.1 | repeat again at Formula One stuff. What I know is that the Mirage Hotel and the Tropicana |
| 0:46.3 | Hotel are no more or about to be no more. What is their status, Jeff? |
| 0:50.6 | Good to me, John. |
| 0:53.0 | Both hotel casinos are closed. |
| 0:57.6 | The Tropic Cannon, for the most part, aside from the towers, has been demolished or has almost completely demolished. Those towers will be imploded on |
| 1:07.0 | October 9th. A big ceremony with fireworks and a drone show will have all kinds of cameras |
| 1:12.1 | on it, all kinds of coverage. |
| 1:13.6 | And the mirage, they took out the volcano this past week. |
| 1:17.2 | That was a famous part of the front of it that was on the front of the strip. |
| 1:22.0 | It was a volcano that spewed fire and |
| 1:25.1 | had all kinds of volcanic eruption sounds and it would draw thousands of people |
| 1:29.9 | each hour, you know, actually every 15 minutes for these fire shows. And so those are both gone. |
| 1:36.1 | The one at the Tropicana is going to be turned into the ballpark to be used by the Oakland |
| 1:41.9 | Days, we're moving there in 2028 and the |
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