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Frontier Aftermath, Sentimentality

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Posted November 14th, 2007 by Christopher - 2 comments

I was up early today, as I seem to be doing more and more lately for some odd reason, and I wanted to get out of the house. I was in the Las Vegas Strip area so I thought I should ride over by the New Frontier’s property and take a look at the aftermath from the implosion. Wow.. I know I can be a bit stupidly sentimental but there was this sort of sad pile of rubble laying there all forlorn. On the top of the pile were a couple of reflective remains of what used to be the huge letters that spelled “Frontier” on top of the structure – the only thing that’s left of the tower where so many millions of people stayed throughout the many years of its operation.

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Frontier Hotel and Casino – Las Vegas Implosion Video!

Blogs, Blogging, and Podcasts, Casinos and Gambling, Hotels, Las Vegas, Las Vegas Video Podcasts, Nevada, Sin City, Special Events
Posted November 13th, 2007 by Christopher - 7 comments

Last night proved to be a bit of a trying experience for me. As is often the case, bloggers don’t get the same treatment that mainstream media gets, and our efforts to secure the implosion of The New Frontier here in Las Vegas last night was met with some typical but ultimately funny run-ins with Las Vegas Metro.

This guy told me he could not say “officially” that it was okay to walk down the closed-off Desert Inn arterial to film the implosion from what was a good vantage point (well out of the way and behind lots of television crews below us on the ground, as well as construction/demolition workers and onlookers behind a fence.) He said that it was sort of a at-your-own-risk/knowing what is safe for you sort of thing. So we went.

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