{"id":39683,"date":"2024-04-02T17:04:15","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T00:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/?p=39683"},"modified":"2024-04-05T15:10:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T22:10:52","slug":"tropicana-las-vegas-closes-after-67-mostly-awkward-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/tropicana-las-vegas-closes-after-67-mostly-awkward-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropicana Las Vegas Closes After 67 Mostly Awkward Years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tropicana Las Vegas opened April 4, 1957. It closed at noon on April 2, 2024.<\/p>\n

That’s a solid run in Las Vegas, despite the fact most of Trop’s years were spent struggling financially.<\/p>\n

For many, the closure is evidence an Oakland A’s move to Las Vegas is a done deal, as the stated reason for the Trop closing is to demolish it to make room for an MLB ballpark. These people are misguided. But this story isn’t about the A’s or Bally’s Corp. or that whole debacle. This story is a perfunctory recap of the shuttering of a classic Las Vegas casino. LFG, as the kids say.<\/p>\n

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Tropicana, a few hours before her plug was pulled. Yes, it was a “her.” Trop was a “they” back in college, but that was just a phase.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What can we say about the Tropicana that hasn’t already been said? A lot, because traditional media has no original ideas about anything.<\/p>\n

Here’s the bottom line: The people waxing poetic about the glorious history of the Tropicana, and gnashing their teeth about the closure, are people who don’t really know the history of the Trop and didn’t particularly visit.<\/p>\n

Had more people visited, the Trop wouldn’t be closing, plain and simple.<\/p>\n

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