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'I hear that the Hotel Tropicana's quite comfortable,' observes Sean Connery 's James Bond as he heads off to check in after escaping death in a burning coffin in Diamonds Are Forever.
The wildly sordid history of the Tropicana casino and hotel has come back into the forefront of everyone's minds this week, as it is now preparing to shut its doors for the final time.
The Edsel was supposed to be the car of the future, Ford's gambit to capture the mid-tier auto market in the late '50s. It turned out to be their biggest flop.
The Tropicana, an iconic Las Vegas Strip establishment built in 1957, could soon be demolished to make way for a new baseball stadium for the Oakland Athletics who may move to the city.
The Tropicana Las Vegas, built in 1957, is likely to be demolished to make way for the city's first major league baseball stadium.