Gaming History - Week of November 13, 2022
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| November 13th |
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| 2022 - Sunday |
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| 2007 - Las Vegas, NV. The New Frontier closed its doors at midnight on July 16, 2007, and was demolished by implosion on November 13 2007 (Clauss Construction and Controlled Demolition, Inc.). The Atrium Tower was imploded with over 1,000 pounds of explosives. The demolition and its preparation were filmed for the National Geographic Channel and a program called Blowdown: Vegas Casino. The hotel's marquee remained standing until December 10, 2008 when it was taken down at the request of Steve Wynn prior to the opening of the Encore Las Vegas across the street.The Las Vegas Plaza project was cancelled around November 2011. Wynn said that he would not bail out the project and blamed the failure of the development on Yitzhak Tshuva and Nochi Dankner's paying too much for the property. |
| Link to: New Frontier Implosion
Link to: New Frontier Wikipedia |
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| November 15th |
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| 2022 - Tuesday |
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| 1945 - Las Vegas, NV. Club Savoy opens at 116 East Fremont, downtown Las Vegas. |
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| 1950 - Reno, NV. Frontier Saloon opens. Frontier Saloon was located in Lincoln Alley, a section of the Frontier Club that was licensed separately until May 31, 1952, for slots and 21. |
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| 1993 - Vicksburg, MS. Harrah's opens. |
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| 2001 - Paradise Nevada. Palms Casino Resort is a hotel and casino located near the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. It has 703 rooms and suites and contains 94,840 sq ft casino, recording studio, Michelin-starred restaurant, and 2,500-seat concert theater. The Fantasy Tower is also home to several nightlife venues including Moon Nightclub and The View. The tower holds what are known as the Sky Villas and Fantasy Suites, which are some of the most expensive hotel suites in the world. The two-story Sky Villa on the top floor billed at US$40,000 per night, is listed at number 5 on the World's 15 Most Expensive Hotel Suites compiled by CNN Go in March 2012. |
| Link to: The Palms Website
Link to: The Palms Wikipedia |
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| November 16th |
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| 2022 - Wednesday |
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| 1966 - Las Vegas, NV. Goldy's Casino opens at 22 East Fremont, downtown Las Vegas . |
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| 1994 - Elgin, IL. Grand Victoria casino opens. |
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| 2001 - Las Vegas, NV. Clifford Jones died in the Life Care Center of Las Vegas after a lengthy illness. He was 89. A two-term lieutenant governor from 1947 to 1954, Jones became known as "Big Juice" for having the clout and connections to get deals made. Jones was granted a 2 percent interest in the Pioneer Club in exchange for helping the club obtain its lease and gaming license. He parlayed that interest into a stake in the El Cortez -- the beginning of a gaming career that took him round the world and led him to have interests in the Algiers, Dunes, El Cortez, Golden Nugget, Pioneer, Thunderbird and Westerner casinos. |
| Link to: Clifford A Jones Wikipedia
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| Clifford Jones on the Right |
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| 2004 - Las Vegas, NV. The closure of the Desert Inn in 2000 and subsequent demolition was unpopular with many as it seemed to mark the end of old Las Vegas. Historian Michael Green stated: "To a lot of people outside of Las Vegas, these two places (the Desert Inn and the Sands) really meant Las Vegas. These were the places that represent the images of Las Vegas, in a far greater way than the Dunes, the Aladdin, the Hacienda and the Landmark". Robert Maheu, Howard Hughes's publicist for many years, remarked that the "Desert Inn was the gem of Las Vegas". The hotel remained popular with locals until the end, as the heavily tourism-driven modern Las Vegas emerged in the 1990s.Desert Inn Road, an east-west Las Vegas Valley roadway, still exists. It is the only major east-west surface street on the Strip that does not connect to Las Vegas Boulevard. |
| Link to: Desert inn Implosion
Link to: The Desert Inn On Wikipedia |
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| 2009 - San Juan, Puerto Rico. Metro Casino (in the Sheraton Convention Center Hotel) opens. |
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| November 17th |
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| 2022 - Thursday |
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| 1994 - Ft. Madison, Iowa. Cat fish Bend casino opened. Closed November, 2007. |
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| 2008 - Condado Beach, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Casino del Mar in the remodeled Renaissance La Concha Resort opens. |
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| 2021 - San Juan, Puerto Rico. The Foxwoods EL San Juan Casino Grand Opening in the Fairmont El San Juan Hotel, replacing the El San Juan casino that closed about 5 years earlier. |
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| November 18th |
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| 2022 - Friday |
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| 1994 - Kenner, LA. Treasure Chest casino opens. |
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| November 19th |
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| 2022 - Saturday |
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| 2016 - Las Vegas Nevada. Lucky Dragon Hotel and Casino is an Asian-themed boutique hotel and locals casino located on 2.5 acres (1.0 ha) of land at 300 West Sahara Avenue, near the Las Vegas Strip, in Las Vegas, Nevada.The Lucky Dragon is adjacent to the Allure Las Vegas high-rise condominium, opened in 2008 by developer Andrew Fonfa. The resort's property was initially planned as the site of a second Allure tower, which was canceled due to poor economic conditions. While selling units in the first tower, Fonfa decided to build a hotel and casino on the adjacent site. The Lucky Dragon was announced in February 2012, and groundbreaking began in May 2015. The resort had a soft opening on November 19, 2016. An official grand opening was held on December 3, 2016.
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| Link to: Lucky Dragon Website
Link to: Lucky Dragon Wikipedia |
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