Red herring!
]]>They did take out quite a bit of furniture and the like, but there’s a lot still in the rooms (like draps and carpeting), as well as finds like the uniforms (valet, cocktail waitress) and lots of toilets.
]]>Great question! Asked the demolition supervisor, and no such items have been found, unfortunately. There were rooms full of toilets, however. “)
]]>18 Fremont is the placeholder name since the official name hasn’t been announced. It’s not out of the realm of possibility that’s in the running. Derek has said he hasn’t landed on a name yet, but the front runner is pretty great.
]]>I believe Grandissimo was out of the running early on, as people would shorten it to “Grand,” which could be confused with Downtown Grand.
]]>Casinos used to dispose of obsolete chips by mixing them in concrete of new construction and entombing them in thier new hotel towers. Chip finds have been unearthed during demolition at many strip properties.
I’ve got chips from The Dunes & The Sands from their respective demolitions as well as a cool chuck of concrete that I was told came from a Flamingo renovation which contains chips and tokens from neighboring casinos like MGM Grand(the old one) & Imperial Palace coming out and inbedded throughout the chunk of concrete.
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