The Stardust Goes Boom
posted by on March 16 at 13:23 PM
And it’s done totally Vegas-style:
I spent a couple of nights at the Stardust while attending the Porn Awards for The Stranger in 2000, and it was a trip: super-low ceilings, odd smells, and the hotel’s few guests spread out all over the vast and empty-ish grounds (the one and only reason I chose the Stardust over any other Vegas hotel was its stature as the setting for Showgirls.)
Now it’s gone. RIP Stardust; your name has been fulfilled.
(Thanks to my beloved Towleroad for the link.)
For old-style Vegas obsessives like myself, there's no better site to wallow in nostalgia than the Vegas Death Watch - a good place to get the scoop when these beautiful old ladies are coming down.
Gah, that's depressing. You can keep your Mandalay-Venetian-Bellagio garbage. The only non-sucking hotel left on the strip is the Tropicana, with their fantastic pool. Slated for the wrecking ball, according to Switzerblog. I have no reason to visit Vegas again.
My father worked as a senior-level bartender at the Stardust for 29 years. From the early 70's to the late 90's, if you went to the bar shack by the pool to get yourself a drink on a hot afternoon, he was the guy pouring your drink.
I was surprised when I found out it closed... but so it goes in Vegas. Some places put history in a glass case. Vegas blows their history up. I find it strangely progressive and forward thinking. "The past is gone. Let's look to the future."
I never went out by the pool at the Stardust, so I probably never got a drink from your father. But have you SEEN what the future looks like in Vegas? It's all bogus upscale glamor -- gilded plastic. And no style. They're even shitting on their famous neon heritage. It's all Jumbotron TVs everywhere now.
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