It’s sad and ridiculous that Las Vegas Tears Down Everything Historic. There is plenty of room around that Desert to build New Junk I’d rather have the old stuff than this new Junk!
Its Kinda sad to see something that has been there since almost day one...And they sold out for a stadium. Also with over 1800 rooms what the heck does a demolition company do with all the beds, furniture and stuff? its almost mind blowing to think about all the garbage
I don’t know why they can’t build that stupid stadium where the Hotel Last Frontier used to be, that land has been empty for nearly two decades now. The last of old Vegas falls.
Bob I put that molding up. That was my first union construction job when I moved to vegas. We had to drill holes in the concrete and hammer wooden plugs into the ceiling to secure the molding to. We also put rolled up notes under the center medallions for people to find in the future. Crazy to look at after all these years.
@@RobertMoseley It was 77 or 78 . I worked on those towers from the ground up. When they were starting to put the bedding in the rooms we use to steel blankets and stuff them in our tool boxes. Bob the cooking show and the restaurant reviews are a winner. Hey sense you love cars, what is the best way to send you a picture. I want to show you my extremely custom van that I have been working on for 50 years. I've done things no one has ever seen. You'll get a kick out of it.
I enry you sir! Being the last person who stayed at the Tropicana Hotel & Casino is quite a thing to do. I'm a former 29 year resident of Las Vegas. I was the last person to do something like this in Las Vegas. I knew they were closing down Fremont Street to make it a walking mall. I went down there in my car and hung around Fremont Street and Las Vegas Blvd. I parked on a nearby street until I noticed they were about to close down Fremont Street. I asked one of the LVMPD officers if I could travel down it one last time. He waved my through. As I turned right onto Fremont Street the LVMPD were closing the street at Las Vegas Blvd. I was the LAST car to drive down the new closed to vehicle traffic. I felt VERY lucky to be the last person to drive there.
It was sad seeing your video. I’m glad you took a last day tour so we can all see the last of the Tropicana Vegas casino. Thank you for sharing last moments of the Tropicana 💔
What a sad day. I remember seeing that hotel back in 1994. I just put a video up on my UA-cam channel of the whole Las Vegas strip from 1994. The Tropicana is on the video. I was 9 years old when I saw that hotel.
What are the oldest, I usually stay further out, stratosphere, but I had a bad experience last time I was there, the waitress refused to serve me drinks even tho I had 50$ in the slot, she said I was on my phone to much, was her reason for not serving me, I was texting the wife for 5 mins and got this treatment 😅, unbelievable, I did complain tho, they apologized, but it's kinda to late after making me feel so insignificant 1:52
My gracious.. could you imagine the stories they could tell from the 70’s and 80’s?? Holy crap!! Like how many other people wondered how much “blow” was done off those bathroom sinks?? Lmbo!! Geez!! If walls alone could talk.. What a piece of history that’s gonna be taken away for a crazy ball park.. As if Vegas didn’t have enough desert out there to build it elsewhere.. So sad!! Stay blessed @VideoBob!!
I READ about you in our Honolulu Star-Advertiser. I couldn't help but think, "Hey...I know that dude!" This was the way to see out the Tropicana! Well done!
I appreciated you documenting the very last night and last day. The end of an era. I remember me and my son who just tragically passed away in March went to an exotic bird show there back in 2005 when he was just 12. The memories. Old Vegas is gone. Very sad. 😢💔😭
Its crazy how the MLB managed to piss off 2 cities in one swoop lol. Obviously Oakland and now Vegas where a lot of people have made it known that they dont want baseball.
It’s time….I’ve been to Vegas 7 times in the last 20 years and only stopped in for the bodies exhibit…paid $18 for a lemon drop drink and left. It wasn’t a hotel most people even considered anymore. Thanks for the vid Bob.
I'm so sorry this place was demolished. Love room so far. Just nice area. In its heyday late '50"s right through the 2000's this was a wonderful hotel.
I went to high school with Zowie, a class assignment I had back then. Preserved a good memory for him. It is sad to see another piece of Vegas going away. I'm just old enough to have to experienced, the last remnants of the Mob run Vegas. Nothing illegal, but the food was far superior.
$600 for a $50 room. Well…all things must pass…time marches on…nothing is forever… Another casino bites the dust. I’m sure there will be still be multiple opportunities to blow $$$ all over that town…
true, eh, this isnt some run down old dump like Excalibur; Tropicana had a lot of history going back to the 1950s, Elvis Viva Las Vegas, the last Sean Connery official Bond movie. One of the Strip survivors that had more than forgettable 90s family movies run through it. It's what it is, but i can understand why some people are peeved.
I stayed at the Tropicana a few times in the 80"s and then after MGM opened i stayed at the Trop as it was cheaper but i mainly played at MGM and other casinos along the Strip. I have been going to Vegas since the late 70"s, which only consisted of the Hacienda, the Trop, the Marina (which was built into the MGM (i stayed at the MGM in the Marina section.) Ever since Vegas has unthemed most of the current casinos, or imploded great Hotels like The Dunes, Riviera, Desert Inn, Stardust etc., i rarely visit Vegas anymore. Too expensive now. But i still have memories of Vegas as it was, including the Trop, and that stained glass ceiling overlooking the Trop Casino.
I was there the last weekend also. The trick to getting the $5 chips was when he cashed me out with $25 chips I said how am I going to tip you? I need some $5s… he reluctantly gave in. This was Sunday morning the 31st and they were already strict on $1 & $5 chips when I checked in on Saturday 30th. Was a great final night though! I agree on the somber part
Stayed there last August for the last time... 4 days 3 nights comped ... we had the King Bed room in the same Tower. That area by the pool used to have a Cafe Restaurant. Sorry to see the old Hotel give way to a Baseball Park. Thank you for the Tour Brother!
Seems like a waste of a perfectly good hotel to replace with a ballpark. Sure it could use some updated carpet and paint but it would last at least another 67 years.
we were guilty of stealing signs on this day too lol. not any of the ones on the boards throughout the floor though, we got into the bungalow hallway (easy, there’s a sign that said “no guest entry”-which we took btw-but the doors were completely unlocked) and took down some of the room plaques (numbers, exit route, staff only, etc), they were only held on by sticky tacks lol. should i be sharing this? probably not, but this was around 11am on closing day, what are they going to do? i also had the pleasure to be in the very front during the closing ceremony, i was standing right next to the loud guy you can hear in every video. he was the one starting the chants
So sad. I stayed there back in the early '90's for a friend's wedding. I stayed in the "old part". Sad that a seemingly profitable hotel will be demolished for a stadium, on the strip. It appeared for the most part they kept it up until the end. The carpets weren't thrashed, the rooms looked clean and all the lighting was working.
It's too bad that you couldn't acquire a set of the Tropicana letters off the side of the building. That would be something worth preserving. It's just sad that everyone keeps trying to be restart HISTORY. Once even sadder is that they're building a baseball park for a baseball team that the fans and even the team doesn't want to move it's just a stupid owner.
What a hotel without a note pad & envelope w/ the Tropicana Hotel printed on top ? ( they didn't leave you something to snitch, for memories sake !! ) An no Gideons Bible, Oh forgot they can't have those any more ! Really, its sad to see the Tropicana be demolished, it was part of Las Vegas history !
You might keep an eye out for hotel closeouts. I got some nice drapes from a closeout for my living room. Those plantation shutters are beautiful. If I were you, I'd keep an eye out for sales such as that. Thank you for the tour down memory lane!
Thank you so much for doing this. I've enjoyed your thorough explorations and I've subscribed. My wife and I often spend Christmas in Vegas (from Phoenix) because our families are scattered turds. But it's been at Westgate, later Bally's/Horseshoe. We married in LV and love the history. On a curious whim, I chose Tropicana this past December, not knowing any of this. Really just for the change of being on that end of the strip and I'd walked through the Trop before. But when we checked in we learned of the impending closure. The staff, employed by Doubletree, hadn't even been told when yet. We not only got a great rate, she bumped us up to a suite near the top of the Club Tower. It had a separate living room with a bar, a bedroom and huge bath area. Also, and this made this hotel so special - a set of protruding Bay windows in each room, ours' overlooking McCarren. Beautiful, quiet room. But as you observed, the mood was very somber. On our way to the room we met a housekeeper carrying towels, probably in her late 50's and she told us she had never worked anywhere else. Tropicana was her whole life. I worked in hotels as Guest Services/Concierge for years after college. I know what it is to believe in your property and do anything within reason for your guests. I also know the lies, omissions, betrayal of management or ownership changes, and destructive aquisitions. The walk along that long Trop corridor back was the same in December - a neglected, empty, dying place. I now understand the original cabana rooms were already closed. I'm so glad we had that experience but it was so depressing it also ruined our holiday. Other than riding the NY NY rollercoaster, we just stayed in the Tropicana getting hammered, talking to staff. I tipped far far more than I should have, much like you splurging on that room. Watching the videos of the demolition has been jarring because that would have been our new Christmas choice. I lived in the Bay Area for years and I hate the f'n A's. They aren't going to missed there. I still have my key cards somewhere but I wish I remembered what room # so I could look at that gutted shell and see which concrete frame we spent our Christmas in - and Tropicana's last Christmas. I have a vague idea. There are so many horrid, dumpy hotel/casinos in LV, this isn't right. And now the rumors finances aren't yet secured for the stadium, the A's are demanding an absurd number of Away Games and this surprise aquistion of cash strapped Bally's. So, instead of views, a comedy club, stained glass, tropical motif with pools and a water fall, be prepared for this to be hot, dusty dirt for years like the Stardust lot, a giant parking lot like Riviera is, or an unfinished eyesore Founainbleau lingered as. BTW, there is history here in victims of the Country Music Festival massacre jumping fences and barriers desperate to reach Tropicana, where staff selflessly cared for them with blankets, pillows, medical attention, and safety in their main ballroom on that side. All while not knowing where the shooter or shooters were (Mandalay Bay). Officers down on the sidewalk outside. Google for pictures, it's shocking. The property and staff deserved a bit more reverence here. Anyway, your last night of celebration there just became ours'. Thanks for taking us along.
My wife and I were going to stay at the Tropicana last August, but we ended up staying at the Flamingo. I tried to get a reservation at Tropicana for this year back in January, but the website was basically dead. Sad I missed it.
Ayyy I can see myself nice man I’m miss working at the Trop even though I was there only a year I just feel like I was there with the rest of the guys for a life time!!
I am not surprised many in Vegas are not happy; Hotels and Casinos are that cities history; and seeing on that wouldn't look out of place in the early 70s theme Fear and Loathing movie getting demolished? More so one that featured in James Bond and Elvis movies from the era; is a real tragedy for posterity.
If people actually cared to visit the place more often in recent years: its fate undoubtedly would have been different now, would it? Flamingo, Caesars Palace and Golden Nugget still draw heavy foot traffic and they're vintage Vegas, so it isn't that people are conspiring to destroy all of vintage Vegas. It's that other places like the Tropicana fell out of favor and hardly anyone cared to visit anymore and, thus, their fates were sealed.
Bob I really thank you for sharing this time with us. It truly was a sad ending for such a nice place. I hate Baseball at times like these. Have a wonderful day.
It's not $600 for the overnight stay, they expect you to treat it more like àn all you can eat buffet as they expect you to take over 600 in "souvenirs" as in practically gut the room to the studs as many folks will
Museum may take it, it's just a matter of costs and upkeep if it were to be reinstalled in a museum. There's articles about the glass going back 5 years. Hope it gets saved. 👍
So the Oakland A's are building a spring training facility? I mean... When I lived out in Vegas... The rule was there were no professional sports teams allowed in Nevada due to potential influence. AFAIC, there are still no real sports teams in Vegas other than UNLV.
@@dethangelsshadow1722 the Oakland Raiders have already moved there. The Oakland A’s are moving once their new stadium gets built at the site of this hotel.
It’s sad and ridiculous that Las Vegas Tears Down Everything Historic. There is plenty of room around that Desert to build New Junk I’d rather have the old stuff than this new Junk!
Agree
😢 Another historic piece of Las Vegas history soon to be destroyed and lost forever !.So sad 😔 really.....
Thanks for this. Goodbye Tropicana Las Vegas.
Its Kinda sad to see something that has been there since almost day one...And they sold out for a stadium. Also with over 1800 rooms what the heck does a demolition company do with all the beds, furniture and stuff? its almost mind blowing to think about all the garbage
I don’t know why they can’t build that stupid stadium where the Hotel Last Frontier used to be, that land has been empty for nearly two decades now. The last of old Vegas falls.
It seriously pisses me off they're removing a piece of history for baseball
There is plenty of land out there outside of the strip for a baseball stadium. It would be more scenic out there instead of at the strip.
It's a common thing
@@Cantpasslevelcandycrush nobody is guna wana watch a game in the Las Vegas desert 🏜
@@nickpatrick1636 yeah I can tell 😩💔
Are you kidding me for baseball….
Bob I put that molding up. That was my first union construction job when I moved to vegas. We had to drill holes in the concrete and hammer wooden plugs into the ceiling to secure the molding to. We also put rolled up notes under the center medallions for people to find in the future. Crazy to look at after all these years.
What year was that?
@@RobertMoseley It was 77 or 78 . I worked on those towers from the ground up. When they were starting to put the bedding in the rooms we use to steel blankets and stuff them in our tool boxes. Bob the cooking show and the restaurant reviews are a winner. Hey sense you love cars, what is the best way to send you a picture. I want to show you my extremely custom van that I have been working on for 50 years. I've done things no one has ever seen. You'll get a kick out of it.
@@RobertMoseley Peter Griffin did stay there before it closed.
I enry you sir! Being the last person who stayed at the Tropicana Hotel & Casino is quite a thing to do. I'm a former 29 year resident of Las Vegas. I was the last person to do something like this in Las Vegas. I knew they were closing down Fremont Street to make it a walking mall. I went down there in my car and hung around Fremont Street and Las Vegas Blvd. I parked on a nearby street until I noticed they were about to close down Fremont Street. I asked one of the LVMPD officers if I could travel down it one last time. He waved my through. As I turned right onto Fremont Street the LVMPD were closing the street at Las Vegas Blvd. I was the LAST car to drive down the new closed to vehicle traffic. I felt VERY lucky to be the last person to drive there.
It was sad seeing your video. I’m glad you took a last day tour so we can all see the last of the Tropicana Vegas casino. Thank you for sharing last moments of the Tropicana 💔
What a sad day. I remember seeing that hotel back in 1994. I just put a video up on my UA-cam channel of the whole Las Vegas strip from 1994. The Tropicana is on the video. I was 9 years old when I saw that hotel.
Did the same thing, had a double gin and tonic. 37.00. Trop mgt, greedy bastards till the end
Tropicana is what, the 3rd oldest operating hotel on the strip? Wow it's one of the OGs from the Mafia days.
What are the oldest, I usually stay further out, stratosphere, but I had a bad experience last time I was there, the waitress refused to serve me drinks even tho I had 50$ in the slot, she said I was on my phone to much, was her reason for not serving me, I was texting the wife for 5 mins and got this treatment 😅, unbelievable, I did complain tho, they apologized, but it's kinda to late after making me feel so insignificant 1:52
New Vegas stinks😢
"we look forward to welcoming you back in the future"? Did anyone proof read that? How could that be possible?
Of all the casinos we've lost, I think this one hurt the most. Seen it my whole life growing up here. Just too sad.
Emotional farewell and you could see it and feel it. Thanks for the memories.
Bribe a contractor to get you some of the fittings from the Tropicana
Hope you grabbed a small sign or something off one of the hallway walls 😂
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ bless you all....i was there 1972😢
Seriously Bob, thank you that ride, one of kind when knowing the history of this place!😢😢😢
My gracious.. could you imagine the stories they could tell from the 70’s and 80’s?? Holy crap!! Like how many other people wondered how much “blow” was done off those bathroom sinks?? Lmbo!! Geez!! If walls alone could talk.. What a piece of history that’s gonna be taken away for a crazy ball park.. As if Vegas didn’t have enough desert out there to build it elsewhere.. So sad!! Stay blessed @VideoBob!!
That's the point of Wall Street Greed, to tear down history, Americana.
@@Tee19691 agreed!!
Thanks for documenting this before she comes down. An absolute staple of Las Vegas history
I READ about you in our Honolulu Star-Advertiser. I couldn't help but think, "Hey...I know that dude!" This was the way to see out the Tropicana! Well done!
Thanks for this. It's so sad to see another one of the great icons being destroyed....that gold ceiling :(
Such a sad moment in time....I feel a lot of people don't realize what Las Vegas just lost.
I appreciated you documenting the very last night and last day. The end of an era. I remember me and my son who just tragically passed away in March went to an exotic bird show there back in 2005 when he was just 12. The memories. Old Vegas is gone. Very sad. 😢💔😭
R.I.P. Tropicana and Jerry Abbott (Dime and Vinnie’s Dad)
Its crazy how the MLB managed to piss off 2 cities in one swoop lol. Obviously Oakland and now Vegas where a lot of people have made it known that they dont want baseball.
Oh how I long for the $1.99 shrimp cocktail, and the $2.89 breakfast at the Westward Ho.
the bum sleeping on the sidewalk is a fitting good bye to the old vegas and welcome to the new vagas vagrants.
It’s time….I’ve been to Vegas 7 times in the last 20 years and only stopped in for the bodies exhibit…paid $18 for a lemon drop drink and left. It wasn’t a hotel most people even considered anymore. Thanks for the vid Bob.
I'm so sorry this place was demolished. Love room so far. Just nice area. In its heyday late '50"s right through the 2000's this was a wonderful hotel.
I went to high school with Zowie, a class assignment I had back then. Preserved a good memory for him.
It is sad to see another piece of Vegas going away. I'm just old enough to have to experienced, the last remnants of the Mob run Vegas. Nothing illegal, but the food was far superior.
$600 for a $50 room.
Well…all things must pass…time marches on…nothing is forever…
Another casino bites the dust.
I’m sure there will be still be multiple opportunities to blow $$$ all over that town…
true, eh, this isnt some run down old dump like Excalibur; Tropicana had a lot of history going back to the 1950s, Elvis Viva Las Vegas, the last Sean Connery official Bond movie. One of the Strip survivors that had more than forgettable 90s family movies run through it.
It's what it is, but i can understand why some people are peeved.
Lol, you cant stay anywhere on the strip for 50 bucks! Even the 6 motel is over that.
Thanks for doing this video, very interesting & well done.
This is so sad. I stayed at the Tropicana on my first trip to Las Vegas in 2002. Seems like a horrible location for a ball park but, what do I know?
I stayed at the Tropicana a few times in the 80"s and then after MGM opened i stayed at the Trop as it was cheaper but i mainly played at MGM and other casinos along the Strip. I have been going to Vegas since the late 70"s, which only consisted of the Hacienda, the Trop, the Marina (which was built into the MGM (i stayed at the MGM in the Marina section.) Ever since Vegas has unthemed most of the current casinos, or imploded great Hotels like The Dunes, Riviera, Desert Inn, Stardust etc., i rarely visit Vegas anymore. Too expensive now. But i still have memories of Vegas as it was, including the Trop, and that stained glass ceiling overlooking the Trop Casino.
For $600/night, its too much standard furniture
probably because of resort fees, which none of the pool/gym etc are even open
This was only the price for the last night. It's normally less than $100
*12:28** "Got some Elvises over here."*
*That's one of the most Vegas sentences I've ever heard.* 😂
Are they selling anything
first casino I ever entered June 1973 where did the time go.
Thanks Bob for the video. It will be on your channel when the Hotel is long gone. Kudos.
Good video. This will be watched years from now.
I was there the last weekend also. The trick to getting the $5 chips was when he cashed me out with $25 chips I said how am I going to tip you? I need some $5s… he reluctantly gave in. This was Sunday morning the 31st and they were already strict on $1 & $5 chips when I checked in on Saturday 30th. Was a great final night though! I agree on the somber part
Realized I’m in this video @ the 22:35 mark haha.
This made me cry my parents went there and seen Johnny Carson
I'm staying at the Excalibur next week. Hoping to get some in person photos, at least as close as I'm allowed. 👍
Such a shame to see the grand lady close.
Stayed there last August for the last time... 4 days 3 nights comped ... we had the King Bed room in the same Tower. That area by the pool used to have a Cafe Restaurant. Sorry to see the old Hotel give way to a Baseball Park. Thank you for the Tour Brother!
Seems like a waste of a perfectly good hotel to replace with a ballpark. Sure it could use some updated carpet and paint but it would last at least another 67 years.
I never thought they would get rid of the Tropicana!!!
Good things come to those that wait.
Now we're going to have a beautiful ballpark.
i also stayed the final night. i checked out later than you at 11:19 am 😅
we were out the doors a little after 11:30 lol
Sad to see it go 😢
Where is fake Elvis gonna go now? You'll have to have him over 😅
wow, Elvis, was there Legendary Tropicana. Thanks for sharing.
This looks like the Back To the Future Pawn Stars guy
It is him
I get that a lot.
we were guilty of stealing signs on this day too lol. not any of the ones on the boards throughout the floor though, we got into the bungalow hallway (easy, there’s a sign that said “no guest entry”-which we took btw-but the doors were completely unlocked) and took down some of the room plaques (numbers, exit route, staff only, etc), they were only held on by sticky tacks lol. should i be sharing this? probably not, but this was around 11am on closing day, what are they going to do?
i also had the pleasure to be in the very front during the closing ceremony, i was standing right next to the loud guy you can hear in every video. he was the one starting the chants
My wife and I stayed there for our honeymoon in 2002. Many great memories there. Thank you for showing it one last time.
I am from Oklahoma have you taken any more photos of the entrance of the Tropicana. Is the front enterence still there as of may 1St 2024.
So sad. I stayed there back in the early '90's for a friend's wedding. I stayed in the "old part". Sad that a seemingly profitable hotel will be demolished for a stadium, on the strip. It appeared for the most part they kept it up until the end. The carpets weren't thrashed, the rooms looked clean and all the lighting was working.
It's too bad that you couldn't acquire a set of the Tropicana letters off the side of the building. That would be something worth preserving. It's just sad that everyone keeps trying to be restart HISTORY. Once even sadder is that they're building a baseball park for a baseball team that the fans and even the team doesn't want to move it's just a stupid owner.
If Casino Royale ends up closing, please film that also, if possible
Not If, it is closing
What a hotel without a note pad & envelope w/ the Tropicana Hotel printed on top ? ( they didn't leave you something to snitch, for memories sake !! ) An no Gideons Bible, Oh forgot they can't have those any more ! Really, its sad to see the Tropicana be demolished, it was part of Las Vegas history !
You might keep an eye out for hotel closeouts. I got some nice drapes from a closeout for my living room. Those plantation shutters are beautiful. If I were you, I'd keep an eye out for sales such as that. Thank you for the tour down memory lane!
Thank you so much for doing this. I've enjoyed your thorough explorations and I've subscribed. My wife and I often spend Christmas in Vegas (from Phoenix) because our families are scattered turds. But it's been at Westgate, later Bally's/Horseshoe. We married in LV and love the history. On a curious whim, I chose Tropicana this past December, not knowing any of this. Really just for the change of being on that end of the strip and I'd walked through the Trop before. But when we checked in we learned of the impending closure. The staff, employed by Doubletree, hadn't even been told when yet. We not only got a great rate, she bumped us up to a suite near the top of the Club Tower. It had a separate living room with a bar, a bedroom and huge bath area. Also, and this made this hotel so special - a set of protruding Bay windows in each room, ours' overlooking McCarren. Beautiful, quiet room. But as you observed, the mood was very somber. On our way to the room we met a housekeeper carrying towels, probably in her late 50's and she told us she had never worked anywhere else. Tropicana was her whole life. I worked in hotels as Guest Services/Concierge for years after college. I know what it is to believe in your property and do anything within reason for your guests. I also know the lies, omissions, betrayal of management or ownership changes, and destructive aquisitions. The walk along that long Trop corridor back was the same in December - a neglected, empty, dying place. I now understand the original cabana rooms were already closed. I'm so glad we had that experience but it was so depressing it also ruined our holiday. Other than riding the NY NY rollercoaster, we just stayed in the Tropicana getting hammered, talking to staff. I tipped far far more than I should have, much like you splurging on that room. Watching the videos of the demolition has been jarring because that would have been our new Christmas choice. I lived in the Bay Area for years and I hate the f'n A's. They aren't going to missed there. I still have my key cards somewhere but I wish I remembered what room # so I could look at that gutted shell and see which concrete frame we spent our Christmas in - and Tropicana's last Christmas. I have a vague idea. There are so many horrid, dumpy hotel/casinos in LV, this isn't right. And now the rumors finances aren't yet secured for the stadium, the A's are demanding an absurd number of Away Games and this surprise aquistion of cash strapped Bally's. So, instead of views, a comedy club, stained glass, tropical motif with pools and a water fall, be prepared for this to be hot, dusty dirt for years like the Stardust lot, a giant parking lot like Riviera is, or an unfinished eyesore Founainbleau lingered as. BTW, there is history here in victims of the Country Music Festival massacre jumping fences and barriers desperate to reach Tropicana, where staff selflessly cared for them with blankets, pillows, medical attention, and safety in their main ballroom on that side. All while not knowing where the shooter or shooters were (Mandalay Bay). Officers down on the sidewalk outside. Google for pictures, it's shocking. The property and staff deserved a bit more reverence here. Anyway, your last night of celebration there just became ours'. Thanks for taking us along.
My wife and I were going to stay at the Tropicana last August, but we ended up staying at the Flamingo. I tried to get a reservation at Tropicana for this year back in January, but the website was basically dead. Sad I missed it.
It was all an April Fools Day joke. They're back open. :/
Sad. Thanks for sharing...
Cheer up baseball is coming.
Stayed there in November 2022 went to MJ Live when I was there also went to Robert Irvines that was a nice bar crazy that it is all gone now.
Regards from Athens Greece...❤
Ayyy I can see myself nice man I’m miss working at the Trop even though I was there only a year I just feel like I was there with the rest of the guys for a life time!!
I was the last person to stay at The Tropicana!
I was the last person to stay at The Tropicana!
@@anandguruji83no i was the last person stay at that dive😂
$600/night to stay at the same room Motel 6 offers...alrightythen!
Never known a city getting a major sports team to give less fks than Vegas gives about the A's
Yes it is sad ! I think some other ones have been torn down in the past also ! I don't know which ones ! Do You !
Please no A's. 😢
Great to see you there, Bob.
Ty Bob we enjoyed this one! On this landmark of a place & on it's last night. 💯 Luv&Peace Bob,Rachael ⚘. Sean&family. 💛✌🏼💫
Will the entire building be imploded?
unfortunately
Just like the three in N.Y.
Those wall stains could tell some stories 😂 old Vegas is quickly dead.
Hope you video when they dismantle it thanks bob
Thanks for sharing your experience with us
Oh c'mon you still got Fremont Street to experience "old" Vegas the Horseshoe the Nugget and a few other legendary old casinos
The Sahara as well, but it’s unrecognizable due to the renovations over the years.
Great video Bob, thanks for the tour we appreciate it. I wonder what casino is next to be torn down.
I am not surprised many in Vegas are not happy; Hotels and Casinos are that cities history; and seeing on that wouldn't look out of place in the early 70s theme Fear and Loathing movie getting demolished? More so one that featured in James Bond and Elvis movies from the era; is a real tragedy for posterity.
If people actually cared to visit the place more often in recent years: its fate undoubtedly would have been different now, would it?
Flamingo, Caesars Palace and Golden Nugget still draw heavy foot traffic and they're vintage Vegas, so it isn't that people are conspiring to destroy all of vintage Vegas. It's that other places like the Tropicana fell out of favor and hardly anyone cared to visit anymore and, thus, their fates were sealed.
Bob I really thank you for sharing this time with us. It truly was a sad ending for such a nice place. I hate Baseball at times like these. Have a wonderful day.
Something tells me the baseball stadium will not turn out the way the proponents are all promising.
I would have played the last slot machine! You could have won the big one!
It's not $600 for the overnight stay, they expect you to treat it more like àn all you can eat buffet as they expect you to take over 600 in "souvenirs" as in practically gut the room to the studs as many folks will
I hope they found a buyer for the stained glass. So sad.
Museum may take it, it's just a matter of costs and upkeep if it were to be reinstalled in a museum. There's articles about the glass going back 5 years. Hope it gets saved. 👍
@@ViliamJakubek Thanks.
False Dan from What’s inside was. Proof from the staff
On the plus side I won’t have to deal with A’s fans on BART anymore. Enjoy your forever sun.
So the Oakland A's are building a spring training facility? I mean... When I lived out in Vegas... The rule was there were no professional sports teams allowed in Nevada due to potential influence. AFAIC, there are still no real sports teams in Vegas other than UNLV.
@@dethangelsshadow1722 the Oakland Raiders have already moved there. The Oakland A’s are moving once their new stadium gets built at the site of this hotel.
All these poor people about to lose their jobs for a baseball team that nobody wants
It was nice in the 70's, they gave you a bottle of champagne if you hit a jackpot.!
Someone has a Tropicana bottle of water listed on eBay for $1k.
They dreaming, ain't nobody gonna pay more than 20$
I was just in Vegas one week prior to closing, thanks for sharing Bob!
Great video to remember the Tropicana. Another sad day when history meets the future 😢
at the exact time you said it i said, 'no Bible'
Wish they would have just fixed it up
Sad day man O man sa
Should have took the Tropicana front door mat!