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One <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/las-vegas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">of Las Vegas'</a> longest-standing and most historic hotels is shuttering its doors after nearly 67 years to make room for a new Major League Baseball stadium.Tropicana Las Vegas closed on Tuesday, just shy of its 67th. anniversary.Demolition is slated for October to make room for a $1.5 billion Major League Baseball stadium.The hotel, which opened on the iconic Las Vegas strip on April 4, 1957, was nicknamed the "Tiffany of the Strip" <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/travel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">for its opulence</a>. <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/pinball-hall-fame-offers-25-cent-family-fun-las-vegas-strip-donated-charity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PINBALL HALL OF FAMES OFFERS 25-CENT FAMILY FUN ON THE LAS VEGAS STRIP, DONATED $1.2M TO CHARITY IN 2023</a>When it was built in the late -1950s, the Tropicana cost $15 million to build. It was three stories with 300 rooms split into two wings, creating a footprint shaped like the letter "Y."Later, the Tropicana underwent two major hotel expansions: <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/travel/general/travel-tips" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Tiffany Tower</a> opened in 1979 with 600 rooms. It was renamed the Paradise Tower. In 1986, the Island Tower opened with 800 rooms.Behind the scenes at the opulent Tropicana opening, the hotel had close ties <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/sean-diddy-combs-sons-hire-mob-lawyer-mother-blasts-feds-releasing-video-mansion-raid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">with famed mobster</a> Frank Costello. Weeks after Tropicana debuted, Costello was shot in the head in New York. He survived, but police found in his coat pocket a piece of paper with the Tropicana’s exact earnings figure. The note also mentioned "money to be skimmed" for Costello’s associates, according to <a href="https://themobmuseum.org/blog/tropicana/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">a post</a> on The Mob Museum’s website looking back on the Tropicana’s storied past.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/remains-lost-alaskans-sent-oregon-mental-hospital-century-ago-recovered-returned-home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">REMAINS OF ‘LOST ALASKANS’ SENT TO OREGON MENTAL HOSPITAL A CENTURY AGO ARE RECOVERED, RETURNED HOME</a>By the 1970s, federal authorities investigating mobsters <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/us-regions/midwest/kansas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in Kansas City</a> would charge more than a dozen mob operatives with conspiring to skim nearly $2 million in gambling revenue from Las Vegas casinos, including the Tropicana. Charges connected to the Tropicana alone resulted in five convictions.In 1959, the Tropicana debuted a risqué show which featured topless feathered showgirls.The cabaret was featured in the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/elvis-presley-rock-and-roll" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1964 Elvis Presley</a> film "Viva Las Vegas." Magicians Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn got their start in the show, as did Lance Burton.A portion of "The Godfather" was filmed at the Tropicana and in the 1971 film "Diamonds Are Forever," James Bond stays there."I hear that the Hotel Tropicana is quite comfortable," Bond said.The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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title: Famed Tropicana Las Vegas resort closing to make room for new baseball stadium
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content: 'One <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/las-vegas" target="_blank"
 rel="noopener">of Las Vegas''</a> longest-standing and most historic hotels is shuttering
 its doors after nearly 67 years to make room for a new Major League Baseball stadium.Tropicana
 Las Vegas closed on Tuesday, just shy of its 67th. anniversary.Demolition
 is slated for October to make room for a $1.5 billion Major League Baseball stadium.The
 hotel, which opened on the iconic Las Vegas strip on April 4, 1957, was nicknamed
 the "Tiffany of the Strip" <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/travel" target="_blank"
 rel="noopener">for its opulence</a>. <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/pinball-hall-fame-offers-25-cent-family-fun-las-vegas-strip-donated-charity"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">PINBALL HALL OF FAMES OFFERS 25-CENT FAMILY
 FUN ON THE LAS VEGAS STRIP, DONATED $1.2M TO CHARITY IN 2023</a>When
 it was built in the late -1950s, the Tropicana cost $15 million to build. It was
 three stories with 300 rooms split into two wings, creating a footprint shaped like
 the letter "Y."Later, the Tropicana underwent two major hotel expansions:
 <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/travel/general/travel-tips" target="_blank"
 rel="noopener">The Tiffany Tower</a> opened in 1979 with 600 rooms. It was
 renamed the Paradise Tower. In 1986, the Island Tower opened with 800 rooms.Behind
 the scenes at the opulent Tropicana opening, the hotel had close ties <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/sean-diddy-combs-sons-hire-mob-lawyer-mother-blasts-feds-releasing-video-mansion-raid"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">with famed mobster</a> Frank Costello. Weeks
 after Tropicana debuted, Costello was shot in the head in New York. He survived,
 but police found in his coat pocket a piece of paper with the Tropicana’s exact
 earnings figure. The note also mentioned "money to be skimmed" for Costello’s
 associates, according to <a href="https://themobmuseum.org/blog/tropicana/" target="_blank"
 rel="nofollow noopener">a post</a> on The Mob Museum’s website looking back
 on the Tropicana’s storied past.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/remains-lost-alaskans-sent-oregon-mental-hospital-century-ago-recovered-returned-home"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">REMAINS OF ‘LOST ALASKANS’ SENT TO OREGON
 MENTAL HOSPITAL A CENTURY AGO ARE RECOVERED, RETURNED HOME</a>By
 the 1970s, federal authorities investigating mobsters <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/us-regions/midwest/kansas"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">in Kansas City</a> would charge more than a dozen
 mob operatives with conspiring to skim nearly $2 million in gambling revenue from
 Las Vegas casinos, including the Tropicana. Charges connected to the Tropicana alone
 resulted in five convictions.In 1959, the Tropicana debuted a risqué show
 which featured topless feathered showgirls.The cabaret was featured in the
 <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/elvis-presley-rock-and-roll" target="_blank"
 rel="noopener">1964 Elvis Presley</a> film "Viva Las Vegas." Magicians Siegfried
 Fischbacher and Roy Horn got their start in the show, as did Lance Burton.A
 portion of "The Godfather" was filmed at the Tropicana and in the 1971 film "Diamonds
 Are Forever," James Bond stays there."I hear that the Hotel Tropicana is
 quite comfortable," Bond said.The Associated Press contributed to this
 report.'
summary: The iconic Tropicana Hotel on the Las Vegas strip will close its doors to
 make way for a new $1.5 billion Major League Baseball stadium.
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