Stardust Casino Imploded in Las Vegas

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Dust covers The Strip after the implosion of the Stardust hotel-casino in Las Vegas on Tuesday, March 13, 2007. The property, which opened on July 2, 1958, was imploded to pave the way for Boyd Gaming Corp.'s $4.4 billion megaresort complex, Echelon Place. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)


Stardust Casino Imploded in Las Vegas
Tuesday, March 13, 2007 6:20 AM EDT
The Associated Press
By RYAN NAKASHIMA

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The venerable Stardust casino-hotel on the Las Vegas Strip was imploded early Tuesday morning in a hail of fireworks to make way for Boyd Gaming Corp.'s $4.4 billion megaresort Echelon.

The property, known for its bargain rooms, friendly service and mobbed-up past, opened on July 2, 1958, billing itself as the world's largest resort hotel with 1,032 rooms.

It is also credited with being Las Vegas' first mass-market casino, thanks to cheap rates and loss-leading food and drinks.

The implosion of two towers, gutted to bare concrete and steel over the past three months, included a 32-story building that was the tallest ever felled on the Strip.

In its place, Boyd plans to build a new resort, Echelon, to open in late 2010 with more than 5,000 hotel rooms, a production theater, concert venue, shopping mall and more than 1 million square feet of meeting space.
 
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if they continue to bring down the old casinos, soon all the casinos are going to be pricy.... i guess i continue to stayed at stratosphere...
 
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ESCOBAR 92113 said:
old vegas is going away, shit its cheap as hell to party there too
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hell yeah....I used to post up in Westward Ho for HOURS!!

99cents for damn near everything you'd ever want.....22oz heinekens, 32oz 1800margaritas, foot long hot dogs with the works, pizza slices....

the video poker used to kick out BREAD too!!

sucks that they're tearin' all the old stuff down.
 
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ZigZagBurna said:
speaking of vegas.........has anyone visited Lake Las Vegas Resort?
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mrraskal666 said:
SHIT I WISH I LIVED HERE BUT U GOTTA HAVE LOTS OF MONEY :( :cry:

LAKE LAS VEGAS- IF YALL HAVENT BEEN HERE YALL SHOULD CHECK IT OUT LOOKS LIKE A OASIS OUT IN THE DESERT CRAZY SHIT


http://images.google.com/images?hl=...gle+Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi
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heres the official website, that community is tight ass fuck,it aint no tourist attraction but its nice to visit once in a while

http://www.lakelasvegas.com/

DAMN I MISSED THE IMPLOSION I DIDNT KNOW IT WAS THIS MORNING FUCK:eek:
 
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two things or maybe three things:

lol @ my dads wife working at the stardust. and now working nowhere.

and FUCK i shouldnt have deleted that pic of the stardust from my cellphone.

im sure theres alot of crackheads who had fucking heart attacks looking out their window when this happened.

the stardust took my money...fuck em...
viva texas station.
 
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i dunno why everyones so sad to see it go, old vegas sucks, looks all run down, if i wanted to gamble and vacation in a shithole world of casinos, id go to reno.
 
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