The Tropicana, a landmark hotel and the last true mob-era casino in Las Vegas, was reduced to rubble on Wednesday. The legendary haunt of the Rat Pack and the place James Bond said he had heard was quite comfortable in the 1971 film Diamonds Are Forever, was destroyed in an elaborate implosion accompanied by a firework displayTropicana casino, relic of Las Vegas’s mob era, is brought tumbling down Continue reading...