All Hotel Implosions in Las Vegas 2020

Every hotel implosion in Las Vegas history.

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The Dunes South Tower: (1:03)

[kirk.kang]

Imagine your hard work being blown up just to get replaced by a parking lot

[ginnymiller]

I read somewhere in a LV guide book: “Las Vegas is an anomaly. It’s the only city on earth that destroys its own landmarks to build copies of other cities’ landmarks.” I hung out in LV a lot in the early 2000s. Spent a lot of time in the Stardust, the Frontier, and Riviera. They were cool because they WERE old, and so different from everything else on the strip. They had old marquee signs out in front, not big giant LCD screens like everyone else does now. Walking into those places it was like walking into an old Frank Sinatra movie. Was very sad to see them go, but LV is constantly reinventing itself, so I get it.

[bribread]

*"Nothing stands in its place."*

ouuuu the chills that just ran down my spine..

[bluerubyshadow]

damn vegas really did decide to rebrand the strip in the 90s-2000s

[bellilovesu]

there's something kinda cool and dystopian feeling about massive buildings falling followed by clapping and cheering

[portersorensen]

I must admit, that first one was really creative

[justintofull]

I know the engineers who designed these masterpieces, died inside when they exploded.

[clearlyblurry]

There’s something sentimental about the final light flickering before the Stardust building collapsed.

[hgprtheman]

The Tropicana was just officially imploded this morning October 9, 2024 at 2:37 AM Pacific Daylight Time

[Katseye]

What’s incredibly sad about this is Vegas doesn’t or hasn’t learned how to keep our history alive by saving historic buildings. I grew up here and saw most of these built. I cried when they imploded them. A lot of history gone to dust. 😢😢

[nutbruh]

Kind of sad, the one building earlier in the video fell revealing Stardust and I thought “wow that’s a cool building”, only to see it get destroyed too.

[AverytheCubanAmerican]

I actually stayed at the New Frontier a year before it was demolished. We were supposed to stay at the Circus Circus (I was a kid then so the Circus Circus appealed to us), but my dad insisted on Frontier...the hotel was REALLY showing its age, it smelled SO bad. It smelled worse than the NYC sewer, which coming from New York...that's saying something. So safe to say, the demolition was a good thing. A shame nothing replaced it though

[angelobkoljenovic]

I'am sad all of this was built during 45 years and destroyed in a minute ..

[firstnamelastname]

So what did we learn kids? That if you put the right amount of explosives in the right areas, you can send a million dollar investment tumbling to the ground. People might even cheer as a bonus.

[toob]

"Old" is a matter of perspective. In Vegas, a 50-year-old building is considered a historical landmark. My house is more than 60 years old, and that's not anything here.

[andycheng]

0:10 Dunes- Now Bellagio
1:03 Dunes (South Tower)- Now Bellagio
1:16 The Landmark- Now a parking lot
1:50 Sands- Now Venetian
2:33 Hacienda- Now Mandalay Bay
3:09 Aladdin- Now Planet Hollywood
3:53 El Rancho- Now The Drew
4:15 Desert Inn- Now Wynn & Encore
5:22 Castaways- Now the Showboat Parks Apartments
5:43 Bourbon Street- Now a parking lot
6:20 Boardwalk- Now Waldorf Astoria
7:18 Stardust- Now Hilton Resorts World
8:16 The New Frontier- Now nothing
9:16 Clarion- Now nothing
9:49 Riviera (Monaco Tower)- Now nothing
10:37 Riviera (Monte Carlo Tower)- Now nothing

*FUTURE*
The Mirage- Now the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino

[jrangel]

I was there when the Stardust was taken down, I wish they never took it down.

[PositiveRateAv]

Imagine looking at the tower and then going "OH SHIT I LEFT MY PHONE IN THERE"

[marinemartin]

It’s kind of weird that Stardust watched the fate that Augusta Inn had a couple years earlier.

[mazda]

Kind of a shame that a lot of those classic and iconic buildings were taken down only to be replaced by generic modern buildings or nothing at all.