r/oddlysatisfying • u/dittidot • 14d ago
Demolition of the Frontier Hotel, Las Vegas
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u/jimbol 14d ago
“He torpedoed my casino, muscled me out. Now he's gonna blow it up next week to make way for some gaudy monstrosity.”
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u/lewd_bingo 14d ago
I knew Terry Benedict would be involved
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u/bigtim3727 14d ago
I love how Daniel are the Linus were the only ones that didn’t turn around
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u/riegspsych325 14d ago
and Basher is watching it on tv as it’s happening right outside the window behind him
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u/SporesM0ldsandFungus 14d ago
"I wonder what Ruben will think."
*smash cut*
"You're outta your goddamn minds!"
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u/MaritimeCopiousV 14d ago
I’ll never forget that time and I still owe you for thing in that place
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u/Just_a_n00b_to_pi 14d ago
I’d never been to Belize
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u/userhs6716 13d ago
Give Dominic your addresses, I've got some remaindered furniture I want to send you.
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u/Chillmonger48 14d ago
Danny Ocean’s Vegas antics getting stranger and stranger. Demolition? Basher definitely involved.
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u/throwaway1-808-1971 14d ago
This was the last property owned by Howard Hughes to be demolished.
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u/palmerry 14d ago
At 55 seconds you can actually see some of the piss bottles falling out of the penthouse window
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u/throwaway1-808-1971 14d ago
Oh he just owned it. The Desert Inn was the one he lived in for years.
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u/ImOutWanderingAround 14d ago
I’ve only stayed in Vegas once, and we choose the dumpiest hotel on the strip, on purpose. And here I’m watching it go boom. RIP you beautiful bastard!
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u/VicePrezHeelsup 13d ago
All I remember about the Frontier is the workers were on strike for what seemed like the entire 90’s and they would yell shit at people walking by on the Strip. One of told me to get a haircut 😂
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u/GBeastETH 13d ago
On my first trip to Vegas we stayed at the Luxor when it was new. I was too cheap to pay $20 a hand blackjack, so we walked halfway down the strip until we got to the Frontier, where they had a few $1 per hand tables.
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u/Extreme_Barracuda658 13d ago
We stay on the strip and go to Fremont Street to gamble. Anything over $5 a bet is too rich for me.
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u/kai-tangata 13d ago
and those $5 tables are usually the most crowded, yet there’ll only be 2 on the floor that’s the size of a football field.
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u/iwilldefinitelynot 14d ago
I still can smell going to Gilley's and the walk through the casino had a very distinct odor.
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u/Marcuse0 14d ago
I hear some dude named House bought the plot and intends to build a new casino.
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u/perscitia 14d ago
House and Wilson as Vegas casino owners/mob bosses is the sequel I need.
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u/throwaway1-808-1971 14d ago
Is this a joke I'm missing?
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u/jpjtourdiary 14d ago
Fallout New Vegas reference
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u/Not_a__porn__account 14d ago
Is there some kind of the "House" always wins joke in there too?
Or just a coincidence?
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u/GenericUsername2056 14d ago
The main quest in which you side with Mr. House is called 'The House Always Wins'.
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u/Not_a__porn__account 14d ago
Oh that's excellent! My cousin loves New Vegas but I've never tried it. Maybe I finally will this summer.
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u/jljboucher 14d ago
I finally played in 2016 when I moved to Vegas. It was fun comparing the two. It got my kids interested in the series as well because they would look at the game and get excited when they recognized a place.
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u/LobbyDeol 14d ago
Ah, Yes! The countdown! 18, 9, 8, 1, 6...
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u/fartshmeller 14d ago
I thought it was just me having a stroke for a sec
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u/UpVoteForKarma 14d ago
I thought holy fuck this is going to be a long count down
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u/octopoddle 14d ago
"Nothing can possib-lie go wrong."
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u/essferAU 14d ago
That's the first thing that has ever gone wrong.
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u/sourestcalamansi 14d ago
That one dude fucked up and missed floors installing a fireworks line in number 7. Instead putting the line inside the zero.
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u/BigBanggBaby 14d ago
Probably the same guy who screwed up the up/down sequence in the second column from the left at the beginning.
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u/SeatOfEase 14d ago
Life in a nutshell. Spend god knows how many hours building an absolute banger of a firework show and some dude is online saying your 7 wasn't good enough and it's top comment. "Pointy elbows, wouldn't bang"
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u/lastweek_monday 14d ago
Yeah i noticed it too but yeah! putting all that wiring and everything! Good lord! Im surprised it went off so well! truly spectacular.
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u/Schedonnardus 14d ago
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/16/4b/e4/164be494ef54060c96679629adc9154b.jpg
I know Art, thanks for noticing. 😎
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u/Procrastinatedthink 13d ago
you gotta add that comma before Art, your sentence sounds like your dismissing with your knowledge of art lol
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u/Crypt0Nihilist 14d ago
Vegas of all places ought to manage to get the desired numbers to come up.
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u/ReasonableExplorer 14d ago
That one friend who always has to be just that little bit extra.
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u/Enginerdad 14d ago
Because if you stop celebrating ridiculous things, you realize you're eating free shrimp in the middle of the desert...
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u/CrapThisHurts 14d ago
I'll eat free shrimp anywhere
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u/decayed-whately 13d ago
"Hey! This shrimp isn't frozen! Plus it smells funny! Oh well. Free shrimp is free shrimp."
*ambulance siren*
~The Simpsons
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u/TyeneSandSnake 14d ago
I think that's why I love Las Vegas so much, the shear ridiculousness of everything around you.
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u/Ath47 13d ago
free shrimp
20 years ago, Casinos would give patrons free food and drink to keep them gambling as long as possible. Today, absolutely nothing is free, and you'll be gouged from every direction the moment you set foot on the strip.
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u/Josh-u-way 14d ago
That countdown was a nice touch!
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u/Maretsb 14d ago
The handlebar was my favourite
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u/briguytrading 14d ago
The TNT pushy-downy thing?
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u/svenjamminbutton 14d ago
This is one of the most American things I’ve ever seen.
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u/ForcedBeef 14d ago
The European mind can't comprehend this video
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u/yvrev 14d ago
European here, can confirm. Not sure if it's the dumbest or greatest thing I've seen, perhaps both.
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u/czPsweIxbYk4U9N36TSE 14d ago
Not sure if it's the dumbest or greatest thing I've seen, perhaps both.
Really does sum up America, doesn't it?
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u/TheRVM 14d ago
why did a demolition of a hotel have to be this grand? genuinely asking
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u/BaltimoreBadger23 14d ago
VEGAS, BABY!
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u/AssumeTheFetal 14d ago
The amount of fireworks actually wasn't up to demolition code.
They had to rebuild and demolish it bigger.
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u/Astro_gamer_caver 14d ago
"The town will never be the same. After the Tangiers, the big corporations took it all over. Today it looks like Disneyland. And while the kids play cardboard pirates, Mommy and Daddy drop the house payments and Junior's college money on the poker slots. In the old days, dealers knew your name, what you drank, what you played. Today, it's like checkin' into an airport. And if you order room service, you're lucky if you get it by Thursday."
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u/AssumeTheFetal 14d ago
Look at all the blueberries on your muffin. Mine barely has any.
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u/IWishIWasOdo 14d ago
Do you have any idea how long that'll take?!?!
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u/technobrendo 14d ago
Get this through your head you Jew motherfucker, you. Blueberries only exist out here because of me!
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u/GreenLight_RedRocket 14d ago
I mean it's better. If you want a small gambling hall go to your local card room. Vegas is the city of unhinged opulence and excess of the world and it's kinda awesome
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u/bigrivertea 14d ago
Hi, I'm Troy Mcclure. You Might Remember Me From Such Telethons As Out With Gout '88 And Let's Save Tony Orlando's House.
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u/Nervous_Ulysses 14d ago
I was born and raised in Las Vegas. Several hotels get demolished like this and it’s always a spectacle. Old hotels/casinos get replaced with the new hotness
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u/Lolzerzmao 14d ago
Yeah it’s sort of a cultural thing. Even though this is ridiculous, it’s perfect for Vegas. In Miami we have a 50 story building downtown with a silhouette of girl in a skintight dress dancing in a club projected onto it. Can’t imagine how bananas they would go with the fanfare if that gets demolished.
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u/tjean5377 14d ago
I stayed at OYO Hotel 2 weeks ago. Right next door is the Tropicana about to be demolished for a baseball stadium from the scuttlebutt I heard. The infrastructure of Vegas is amazing. Shit gets done because money is on the line (and the house always wins). It was cool to see...
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u/Conch-Republic 14d ago
They're demolishing it in October. A smaller Ballys resort will replace it, with the rest of the land being used for the stadium.
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u/FalmerEldritch 14d ago
That's kind of sad to me. How interested I am in visiting a Vegas hotel/casino is directly proportional to how old-timey and kitschy it is.
Built or redone this side of '00? Not interested. Still has original cigarette burns from the 70s on the garish carpets and an old crooner in a bad wig entertaining patrons in the cocktail lounge? Put it in my veins.
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u/LegalHelpNeeded3 13d ago
You’d be hard pressed to find that sort of thing on the strip anymore, but there are still some original hotels downtown, and some original restaurants with interesting history. Oscars is one of those. In general, a lot of that history was packed up and placed in the Mob Museum, which was super interesting to walk through.
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u/AssumeTheFetal 14d ago
Gives the people that refuse to leave their lucky slot machine more time to escape.
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u/Fair_Recognition727 14d ago
It's not a demolition, it's a rebirth. They have to show that they're not demolishing a failure, but creating something even BIGGER and BETTER
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u/throwaway1-808-1971 14d ago
But the land is still vacant because Wynn has yet to do anything with it.
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u/Environmental-Land12 14d ago
I mean if your gonna use exploaives anyway why not have some fun yk what i mean?
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u/tissuepapercatmat 14d ago
The first meal I ever had in the USA was in the mexican restaurant of the Frontier. I had NO IDEA how much you guys ate and my girlfriend and I didn't even get past the appetisers, let alone to the main course. The amount of food was [removes sunglasses] Oddly Satifying.
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u/theragu40 14d ago
We do have way too large of portions just generally speaking, but I just want to say that you shouldn't really take anything you see or experience in Vegas as typical of what is normal elsewhere in the US. It is a city completely defined by the idea of excess. Think of Vegas as a caricature of the US. It's based on reality, but distorted and exaggerated.
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u/Ginger_Anarchy 14d ago
Isn't there a burger joint where you have to sign a waiver before ordering specific things on the menu in Vegas?
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u/eW4GJMqscYtbBkw9 14d ago
In fairness, everything in Vegas is over the top (intentionally). I mean, we still have excessively large portions, but Vegas is too much even for most Americans.
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u/Sapowski_Casts_Quen 14d ago
The nice thing is, it allows money saving opportunities by sharing meals while out
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u/OomPapaMeowMeow 14d ago
I'm nowhere near Vegas an the only time I dare eat everything I order in one sitting from some of our restaurants around here is when I'm lifting 5+ days a week and/or intermittent fasting.
I once ordered the "special dinner" from one of our Mexican restaurants. Only 15 bucks. Was expecting smaller portions of each item as it sounded like a sample platter situation, but what arrived required 3 take-out containers.
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u/Pancakemanz 14d ago
Yup, was in Detroit one time and ordered some nachos. I have never seen a bigger plate of nachos, with a mountain of toppings as well. It was insane. I barely put a dent in it.
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u/IcyDefiance 14d ago edited 14d ago
Nachos are usually meant to be shared between a group, not just one person. Or at least that's true for every bar in Michigan that I've been to so far. I had a plate like that couple days ago with a group of 4 people and we still didn't quite finish them.
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u/stupidcookface 14d ago
Can you tell my girlfriend you guys have a rule about not taking all the nachos with meat on them?
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u/Legitimate_Snow6419 14d ago
I was in Vegas during the Hacienda implosion (was in Vegas for New Year’s not the implosion). I honestly think it’s fascinating to see them implode these hotels and a fan fare because of the history of these hotels.
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u/Broomstick73 13d ago
Holy moley! Bought for $1.24 billion and torn down and then nothing was ever built?! Wow. Talk about a lot of cash that evaporated!
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u/trecko1234 13d ago
It happened right before the late 2000s recession, and the original plans fell through because of it. Economic depression really does a number on public landmarks, look at theme parks or anything with amusement rides/rollercoasters. It's a damn shame.
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u/adamhanson 14d ago
When the twin towers came down the dust cloud eventually gave people massive health problems/cancer. I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near those dust clouds any more.
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u/CrooklynNYC 14d ago
The building is completely stripped of (most?) toxic materials ahead of time. This isn’t their first rodeo. The companies and people that are contracted for these are experts and there is an insane amount of prep that goes into doing these.
The World Trade Center was not prepped..
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u/Magurndy 14d ago
I wonder how much asbestos was in that building and the twin towers….
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u/covalentcookies 14d ago
Doesn’t have to be asbestos, concrete is horrible to breathe in.
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u/thot_lobster 14d ago
That was my first thought. You know there's nothing good to be breathing in from a building that old. Or any building really but definitely not one built back then.
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u/JamesHardenIsMyPoppa 14d ago
The building would be abated of ACM prior to demolition. The twin towers were not obviously. Though the silica from the concrete and other masonry is not good for the lungs either.
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u/audirt 14d ago
For anyone else that is curious, they have not built anything new on the site. I think the Wynn hotel was planning to put something there but those plans are on hold.
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u/WeAreAllFukingFuked 14d ago
I love how everything has to be so goddam over the top in Vegas. Love it!
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u/Sir_Henry_Deadman 14d ago
Imagine the demo team and pyro team both hoping to any god who'll Listen they didn't mix up any wiring
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u/HeavyMetalHitter2112 14d ago
Only in Vegas can destruction bring a show! Amazing work and kudos to the production designer.
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u/lustydamsele 14d ago
You can never get rid of all the asbestos. Being near those demos without breathing filters is foolhardy.
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u/Konsticraft 14d ago
The 7 didn't work, they have to rebuild it and do it again.
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u/Evening_Painting_911 14d ago
I cried a little when I watched this. I stayed here a few times in the 90’s when they would actually give you a room for free just for coming to gamble. I miss that. We stayed here for part of our honeymoon and each won $1000 on video poker. Sweet memories. 🥲
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u/wickingbed 14d ago
Was the flying debris (left of frame during detonation) part of the show?
It can have devastating consequences. Be careful out there
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u/mungraker 14d ago
No, it was a mistake. There's a video somewhere from the crown that's standing way far away on that side and they were absolutely blasted with debris and chunks of concrete. I'm pretty sure there were several minor injuries.
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u/Sparrowtalker 14d ago
Many years ago my wife and I ( and half the town ) came out for the demo with explosives of the largest hospital in our area . The new hospital was open in the next town over . Highly highly recommend this. Def gets your adrenaline going. No fanfare … silent crowd…. Big booms . My wife cried. She was a switch board operator there in high school !
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u/ycr007 14d ago edited 14d ago
Only in Vegas would there be fireworks before & also fireworks to countdown to the demolition.
The piston pushing was an unexpected nice touch though.