If you ever lost money at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas and dreamed of seeing someone blow the place up, now's your chance. This site has all sorts of footage of this morning's explosion/implosion.
The Frontier was the first hotel I ever stayed in during a visit to that town. This was back in the eighties. It was a dump then and it never got any better. Despite a great location and cheap rooms, a lot of people shunned it as a place to stay and once Siegfried and Roy moved over to the Mirage and the Frontier closed its showroom, most folks saw no reason to even venture inside. The few times I did, I never found one. It's sad seeing yet another part of Vegas history disappear but it was sadder to see this one rotting away there the last few decades.
In its place will go a multimillion dollar mega-resort…which is much-needed since they haven't built a new multimillion dollar mega-resort in Vegas for almost a month now and the nearest one is all the way across the street. The developers are promising "one of the most beautiful, luxurious hotels in the world" and that's fine. But I can't help think that they would do just fine if they built a place that looked like the Frontier or the Sands in their heydays, called it "Old Vegas" and had the dealers in tuxedos and the spirit of Frank, Dean and Sammy hovering over it all.