Hotel guests watch fireworks seconds before the implosion of the Stardust Resort & Casino in Las Vegas on Tuesday, March 13, 2007. The property, which opened on July 2, 1958, was imploded to pave. The Stardust Hotel and Casino opened in 1958 in Las Vegas. It's best known for its signature neon sign, made popular by mid-20th century pop culture. Women sit and pose on a rocket outside the Stardust Resort and Casino in Las Vegas in 1958. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images. The Stardust opened July 2, 1958, as the world's largest hotel and catered to middle America with $6-a-night rooms and low-minimum stakes gambling. But as bigger, classier casinos sprung up around it in the late 1980s and '90s and patrons began shelling out more for rooms, food and drinks, its luster began to fade.
The Stardust will always hold a special place in our heart.
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Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Vintage LAS VEGAS STRIP Photo STARDUST CASINO IMPLOSION Photo 8x10 Casino at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! From Stardust to just dust. The Las Vegas Strip's first mass-market casino-hotel was imploded early Tuesday in a hail of fireworks to make way for Boyd Gaming Corp.' S $4.4 billion megaresort.
It was the first hotel we stayed in during our first Las Vegas visit. Our first craps game happened at Stardust.
We can still remember the sounds, the decor, the smells.
Not going to lie, we sometimes fantasize about engaging in sinful acts with this Stardust postcard.
The Stardust was imploded 10 years ago, on March 13, 2007.
The quintessential Las Vegas resort opened on July 2, 1958. It was purchased by Boyd Gaming in 1985. Stardust closed on Nov. 1, 2006.
Think it's weird we still have our Stardust players club card? We just told you we have sinful thoughts about postcards! You are messed up.
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Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Vintage LAS VEGAS STRIP Photo STARDUST CASINO IMPLOSION Photo 8x10 Casino at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! From Stardust to just dust. The Las Vegas Strip's first mass-market casino-hotel was imploded early Tuesday in a hail of fireworks to make way for Boyd Gaming Corp.' S $4.4 billion megaresort.
It was the first hotel we stayed in during our first Las Vegas visit. Our first craps game happened at Stardust.
We can still remember the sounds, the decor, the smells.
Not going to lie, we sometimes fantasize about engaging in sinful acts with this Stardust postcard.
The Stardust was imploded 10 years ago, on March 13, 2007.
The quintessential Las Vegas resort opened on July 2, 1958. It was purchased by Boyd Gaming in 1985. Stardust closed on Nov. 1, 2006.
Think it's weird we still have our Stardust players club card? We just told you we have sinful thoughts about postcards! You are messed up.
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Before it was acquired by Boyd Gaming, Stardust had a reputation for being mobbed up. It eventually became the inspiration for the movie 'Casino.'
One of our favorite parts of the Stardust was the sign. The iconic sign, designed by Kermit Wayne, was made up of dozens of Googie stars. The sign also featured 7,100 feet of neon and 11,000 bulbs.
This is the postcard we call when the other postcard is on its period.
The implosion of Stardust is bittersweet because it was taken down to make way for another construction project, Echelon Place, which never materialized. Construction at the Echelon site was halted in 2008, a victim of the economic downturn.
This Stardust homage by Leroy Neiman can be founding hanging in The California, owned by Boyd Gaming.
Here's a look at the implosion of the Stardust.
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Today, a new resort is slated for the Stardust site, Resorts World. While Resorts World officials claim construction will pick up soon, it remains to be seen if the Asian-themed hotel-casino will actually come to pass.Even if it does, our memory of Stardust will loom large over the site.
It's difficult to express the breadth of our love for this sign at the Neon Museum.
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The implosion of Stardust led to our creation of the only iron-clad rule in Las Vegas: If you knock something wonderful down, you have to replace it with something even more wonderful.
No pressure, Resorts World.
