Check out time the famed Riviera Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas is no more

 

 

LAS VEGAS: -- The historic Riviera Hotel and Casino has been demolished to make room for the new convention center expansion.

 

The last tower of the famed Riviera Hotel and Casino has been reduced to rubble after demolition on the Las Vegas Strip.

 

The destruction of the Monte Carlo wing comes two months after the taller Monaco tower was leveled the same way.

 

The 2,075-room property closed in May 2015 after 60 years hosting headliners from Liberace to Dean Martin.

 

The late Liberace cut the opening ribbon, and became the hotels first resident performer.

 

 

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I've spent a lot of time there.  Great memories.

Stayed there on my first trip to Vegas and many other times, sorry to see it go like so many others. 

 

Edited August 17, 20169 yr by khwaibah

...on a positive note....am sure they got back their initial investment by now....

Funny! I played the video and thought I was watching WTC 7. The team that did that one made an even neater job than the team doing the casino.

Storied casino once owned by Groucho Marx and Dean Martin in shares, and which Wayne Newton opened. The baccarat room was one of the places of my misspent youth, together with the craps tables at Caesars Palace. Together with the demise of the Sands and the especially the Stardust and all the others, Frankie, Dino, Sammy, and the other rat packers must be turning in their graves now.