Waiting for them to implode the Frontier In Las Vegas
I am sitting here at the desk in my room in the Skyrise tower at Circus Circus waiting to see if they really are going to be imploding the frontier at 2:30 in the morning. That is the word I have been getting from the taxi drivers around here, and me and the woman in the business center looked it up online and it looked like what their plans were. Or at least the page said as long as thier plans were approved, but I think it would have been cancled by this afternoon if the plans were not going to be gone through with.
This is not just a hotel that is passing away, it is a part of America. Opened in 1942 the Wild West themed Frontier was the first themed casino on the Las Vegas Strip. More than that, I understand from what I have been reading that it was at the Frontier that Las Vegas was introduced to Elvis Presley when he performed in Las Vegas for the first time at the Frontier in 1956.
MSNBC is advertising that they will be airing the implosion live on News 3 in Las Vegas – that is channel 22 if you are at the Circus Circus tonight.
I will be recording it with my little camera from my window at Circus Circus. Should be one of the best seats in the city for viewing this event. This is my view out onto the Frontier:
It is all primed with explosives now and ready to go off into the sunset. The strip will not be the same without the Frontier being here, which makes me glad that I was able to see it one last time before it was demolished.
There are some things that can never be errased from the hearts of those who have known Vegas for decades and one of those things will be the Frontier. I for one shall be saddened to see it follow the cowboys along that dusty trail into the sunset, and hold memories of it as dearly as I hold the memories I have of cowboys.
Cowboy mourning photo courtesy of V. Fouche
