...but not just any other one. The Stardust hotel & casino in Las Vegas got imploded: NYTimes.
A frequent haunt of Sinatra and the Rat Pack, it also welcomed a group of Yale students and their professors who went to learn from Las Vegas and stayed at the hotel. The Stardust featured prominently in the seminal book that followed and served as a basis for a study on the physiognomy of a typical casino sign.
“Unlike most other cities, we in Las Vegas reinvent ourselves all the time” said the developer of a new $4 billion hotel that will take its place. Or like Marx and Engels famoulsy put it in the manifesto of the Communist Party: "All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned"
LeavingLV (not a Sheryl Crow site...) has videos of the sign dismantling and the implosion. Flickr has more
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The photos in the article are gorgeous.
I wondered why they held the demolition at 2AM. In most cities, at 2AM the streets would be empty, so demolition would be safe. In Vegas, 2AM is prime time.
Then I realized they invited guests and made a party of it - so Vegas!
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