To make way for a new baseball stadium, the Tropicana Hotel will have to be torn down, and with it, a bit of Las Vegas history. They were a featured act in Folies Bergere before branching out on their own. It's the show where Siegfried and Roy got their start in Las Vegas. It was featured in several movies in the 1960s, including 'Viva Las Vegas' with Elvis Presley and 'Diamonds Are Forever' with Sean Connery as 007.īut it's probably best known for hosting the longest-running show in our city's history, Folies Bergere, which played at the Tropicana Hotel for fifty years, from 1959 to 2009. Looking for exceptional deals on Tropicana Las Vegas Casino, Las Vegas Strip vacation packages Save on your trip when you bundle your flight & hotel. READ MORE NEWS 3 | State lawmakers waiting on A's stadium legislation
The Tropicana Hotel opened 66 years ago as a Cuban-themed property.
It's located at the intersection of Tropicana and Las Vegas Boulevard, which has more hotel rooms than any other intersection in the world. The Tropicana Hotel has been around since 1957. (The average high temperatures in Las Vegas during the summer is over 100 degrees.
LAS VEGAS (KSNV) - The place where officials want to build a new stadium has a lot of history in our city.
