The Legendary Las Vegas Tropicana Hotel Is Imploded Accompanied By a Fireworks and Drone Show

The legendary Tropicana Las Vegas hotel was imploded on October 9, 2024 in true Sin City style, accompanied by a shower of colorful fireworks and lighted drones. The legendary hotel was razed after 67 years to make way for a new stadium for the Oakland A’s, who are relocating to Las Vegas. The plan is that the team can begin playing ahead of the 2028 baseball season.

Sin City blew a kiss goodbye to the Tropicana before first light Wednesday in an elaborate implosion to clear land for a $1.5 billion baseball stadium for the relocating Oakland Athletics.

This implosion now leaves The Flamingo as the only original hotel on the Las Vegas Strip, albeit it looks quite different than it did when it opened.

As for the Las Vegas Strip, there now is one only one hotel remaining — the Flamingo — from the city’s mob era. However, the Flamingo’s original structures are long gone as part of a complete rebuild in the 1990s.

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1440 and others shared some of the fascinating history behind the hotel.