(20 Oct 2024)
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Las Vegas – 2 April 2024
1. People outside the Tropicana
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Las Vegas – 2 April 2024
2. Tropicana entrance
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Las Vegas – 9 October 2024
3. Implosion of Tropicana
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Las Vegas – 25 May 2024
4. Kitchen items
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Las Vegas – 04 June 2024
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Frank Long, International Content Liquidations:
“You take this hotel-casino and you turn it upside-down, shake everything out of it until it’s empty."
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Las Vegas – 25 May 2024
6. Items for sale with signs
7. Man looking at TV’s
8. Woman with lamp
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Las Vegas – 2 April 2024
9. Tropicana Doors
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Las Vegas – 2 April 2024
10. Tropicana sign being lit
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Aaron Berger, The Neon Museum:
“Las Vegas has a reputation of build it up. Then blow it up, right. And then build it up again.
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12. SOUNDBITE (English) Aaron Berger, The Neon Museum:
“What I’m proud of and what is not well known is the Neon Museum is actually right there, hand in hand, working with properties to preserve as much of history as we can while still allowing progress to take place.”
13. People looking around neon museum
14. Woman looking at hotel sign
15. Sign for Stardust
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16. SOUNDBITE (English) Aaron Berger, The Neon Museum:
“So that sign being lit is very much going to kind of keep that story alive.”
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Las Vegas – 23 September 2024
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17. SOUNDBITE (English) Sarah Quigley, UNLV Special Collections and Archives:
“Our mission is to document the history and culture of southern Nevada and Las Vegas, including the gaming industry. “
18. Unrolling a diagram
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Sarah Quigley, UNLV Special Collections and Archives:
“This item here are the post-COVID reopening guidelines”
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Sarah Quigley, UNLV Special Collections and Archives:
“which I think are really interesting. I find business records to be particularly fascinating,
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21. SOUNDBITE (English) Sarah Quigley, UNLV Special Collections and Archives:
“And because Covid is such recent history also, we don’t have much at all that shows how hotels on the Strip really coped with the pandemic or being closed for so long.”
22. COVID-19 paperwork
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Las Vegas – 8 March 2024
23. Display of planed ballpark
24. A’s logo
STORYLINE:
THE TROPICANA HAS BEEN A STAPLE OF THE LAS VEGAS STRIP, BUT AFTER 67 YEARS, IT WAS DEMOLISHED. BUT WHAT HAPPENS TO ALL THE ITEMS THAT MAKE UP A CASINO WHEN THEY SHUT DOWN?
SOUNDBITE (English) Frank Long, International Content Liquidations:
““You take this hotel-casino and you turn it upside-down, shake everything out of it until it’s empty,”
THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS OF ITEMS WERE SOLD OUT OF THE TROPICANA, SOME TO MAJOR CORPORATIONS AND OTHERS TO LOCALS WHO ARE JUST LOOKING FOR A GOOD DEAL OR TO TAKE A PIECE OF THE FAMED CASINO HOME. OTHER ITEMS WERE DONATED TO LOCAL MUSEUMS AND ACADEMIA
SOUNDBITE (English) Frank Long, International Content Liquidations:
““You take this hotel-casino and you turn it upside-down, shake everything out of it until it’s empty,”
SOUNDBITE (English) Aaron Berger, The Neon Museum:
“Las Vegas has a reputation of build it up. Then blow it up, right. And then build it up again.
SOUNDBITE (English) Aaron Berger, The Neon Museum:
SOUNDBITE (English) Aaron Berger, The Neon Museum:
“So that sign being lit is very much going to kind of keep that story alive.”
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