It went bankrupt after three months. For those keeping score, the Riv also filed for bankruptcy protection in , and Although its showroom attracted some of the biggest names in entertainment, it often struggled at the bottom line and its management from time to time was suspected of skimming untaxed profits.
The ownership and bankruptcy merry-go-round continued thereafter. Over the years, like a lot of Strip casinos of a certain era the Riviera underwent expansions — internally and structurally. It added casino space, a hotel tower, a parking garage, a convention facility, and so on until it became a jumble of architectural themes and afterthoughts.
If it goes as expected later this year, it will join the Dunes, the original Sands, Frontier, Hacienda, Landmark and more in the pile of rubble that was Las Vegas.
Cue the Sinatra and buy a round for the house. If Mr. According to published reports, when last seen the butts were headed to Planet Hollywood Resort. John L. Contact him at or jsmith reviewjournal. On Twitter: jlnevadasmith. The Riviera's implosion marks the latest kiss goodbye to what's left among the relics to Vegas's mobster past. Most of its contemporaries have been long gone, with only the Tropicana and Flamingo casinos still in business.
The Flamingo has been rebuilt at its original location, but the Tropicana still has pieces of its original building, making it the last true mob structure on the Strip, said Michael Green, Nevada historian and a professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
When the Riviera opened in , organized crime outfits from across the country had already sunk their teeth into the casinos in a takeover that had started the decade before. Gambling profits were skimmed to send back home to pay for their gangs' illegal enterprises involving illegal betting, drugs, prostitution, murders and everything else.
The mobsters were known to have controlled the money-counting at the most famous casinos in their day, including the Dunes, Sands, Desert Inn and Stardust — all of which have already disappeared from the Strip. A classic mob joint, the Riviera's place in that seedy time is probably outranked by the Flamingo, historians said. That casino was run by Bugsy Siegel, who is regarded as the most historically significant figure from that era.
Ovation Development filed plans for a and-older apartment project behind the Henderson casino. Now another developer is moving forward with a plan for a big apartment complex there.
Las Vegas Review-Journal. Workers from All-Star Fence assemble the perimeter surrounding the Riviera hotel-casino in Las Vegas, which closed Monday, May 4, after 60 years in business.
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