The New Frontier Hotel and Casino was located in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA but was demolished in 2007 after lying abandoned for 6 months.
Opened in 1942, the Hotel Last Frontier, as it was originally called, was the second resort built on the Las Vegas Strip. It had started life as the Pair-O-Dice nightclub in the 1930s before becoming The Ambassador Night Club and the 91 Club. The original club was demolished for the construction of the hotel. In 1955, it was renamed the New Frontier after work was done to modernize.
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-Abby
This is a "say that reminds me" post,
ReplyDeleteI have a few late 1960 pics of me and my family in Vegas while traveling from Ohio to the west coast (in the 67 Impala with three kids, summer, and no AC, pussies) I'll send them if I can find them.
We had a fucking mattress on a borrowed roof rack. You heard right. Dad would pull over in the boonies for the night after finding White Castle and Hires for dinner. Mom and Dad got the mattress and the three of us got the "comfort" of the car. Great times. He was serious about escaping the cold.
But did they rock you to sleep every night?
DeleteI call your '67 Impala with no A/C and raise you my Dad's first new car (he was 37 years old!), a '56 Ford 'station wagon' with NO HEATER! Sure he bought it in Fresno, but it snowed in Fresno that year! And my Mom never complained a bit about being cold. We all just bundled up and got happy.
DeleteFond memories.
I was 12, no rocking, more like fighting with my two sisters for the back seat. Bitches and their nails, man. I camped out. Mom and Dad making funny noises I didn't understand until later...
DeleteDang!
ReplyDeleteI remember staying at the Frontier the second time we went to Vegas.
My other half fell down and broke both her wrists in the parking lot of a shopping mall.
She spent two nights in Desert Springs and when it came time to go back to the Frontier, I asked them if they'd send a car.
Crickets.
Bitches!
Wasn't sad to see it taken down.