I've really enjoyed reading through all the nostalgic comments on this video. I'm only 18 so I will never experience the golden days of Vegas. At least I can still read reminiscences of it and listen to the great music of the time.
Vegas is still a great place to go and have fun. For those of us who miss the old days, I can only say that you can't retain the "Golden Era" when the class of entertainment is what it is now. When Carrot Top is the reining king of Vegas...well, there you go. My wife and I are going back and plan on staying at The Golden Nugget. We make our own fun and still enjoy ourselves alot.
I'm with a lot of you. There is absolutely NO respect for history here. If it's more than 30 years old, they blow it up. I probably have a bomb under my seat now...
I grew up in Vegas (finally getting out soon!), and I was pissed when they did this. I don't think they even let anyone know they were doing it because people like me probably would have chained themselves to it.
It's in an Elvis movie! The Rat Pack started at the Sands (another destroyed monument)! C'mon people...
@SenecaHighlander . don't take it personally, it wasn't getting money because it wasn't modeled as nice as the venetian or wynn or bellagio, so they demoed it and now a new and better one will come in its place, thats how vegas, and the world goes.
The city of Vegas has a CRIMINAL lack of respect for history...
I used to travel there all the time and even lived there for a couple of years. No more!! I haven't been back in nearly 10 years and have no intention of returning!
I was just in Vegas two weeks ago, staying downtown. I tell you, all the magic of classic Vegas is long gone---those great 60's era atomic buildings, the kitsch. Watching this demolition video now saddens me.
Any trace of history in Vegas is virtually nonexistent. So sad.
The whole point of Vegas is that there is little visible history. It's the city that is always demolishing and building anew. Vegas is now more than just slot machines, cheap hotel rooms, and big name stars like it used to be.
I worked there for ten years. It was the best job and most fun I ever had in my whole life. I wish I could walk in, look around and reminisce. But it's gone. Along with the Dunes, Sands, Stardust. Sad. I hate what this town's become. I miss the real Vegas.
OH please, the way you talk it was falling apart!! Granted it did have a flaw in it's design, but that was all. That's why it split in two when it was imploded.
Vegas is a mere ghost of it's old days. Fricken kids everywhere and Disneyland attractions all over the place. Yuck! My late father Bill Rogers was the arranger and concuctor of the Frank Sinatra Orchestra and the Frank Sinatra Jr. Orchestra. He also did the Jerry Lewis Telethon arrangements for 20 years. He wrote for scores of people in Vegas including the Rat Pack guys and was a monster in his field. R.I.P. Dad. :) Bring back the MOB days when a musician could at least make a living there.
@MarcW23 Still does Biggest MOB on Earth which gets 40 cents on every single dollar called US Government or IRS...forced mobsters to go corporate so as to control TAXES...Feds on the take.
Great comment. What a mistake to knock down the old Vegas landmarks. They're knocking down history. Are there any old Vegas buildings left? If so, will they be saved? I haven't been to Vegas, yet, but when I do go, I'd like to see some of the old haunts of the Rat Pack, etc., but I guess they're all gone, now.
In the name of progress, American culture is being turned into one big, bland shopping mall.
@HouseOfGroove..... I agree with you. I remember the Vegas with the Sands, the Dunes, the Stardust long before these mega casinos and hotels. Vegas was better then. Progress doesn't always make things better.
so much tax money is spent on shitty public art, then they go & blow up a perfectly exquisite artistic timepiece like this. shameful. i remember this beautiful building from many trips to the convention center. i think it should have been restored like '57 cadillac. the first frames of this video look like a classic postcard. someone used a photo of this tower falling on a cd cover. who was it?
I like seeing different opinions on here. My only problem with your comment is comparing the old downtown section with the old strip casinos. Just like these new monster homes I don't find anything about them pretty. It is like seeing a pretty woman wearing way too much makeup and gold jewelry, it's just gauche. But that is my opinion. The old Landmark to me was gorgeous. Space age and clean lines. There is nothing clean about these new casinos.
That's your opinion. Fremont St. had nothing like the Stardust, the Sands etc. The new ones ARE UGLY as hell, they lack charm, and we ALL know the general public has no taste. Most are from the mid west where they think Hometown Buffet is gourmet dining.
That's sad to see so much of the good Las Vegas be destroyed like that, only to be replaced with this overpriced, overrated crap like the Wynn and City Center, and soon Echelon Place. The StarDust was way better than that place ever will be, if it ever gets built!
That building was TEN times prettier than the god awful butt ugly shit they call casinos now. These new buildings are overdone gaudy messes that look like women with too much makeup on. Steve Wynn is an a hole who should get rectal caner for what he has done to that city.
PRETTY? That ugly fucker looked like a Martian warship! Still sad though. And the new ones are overdone, of course they are. I mean, that's the POINT. The people that WANT the classic Vegas should stay on Fremont street. That's where the classic hotels are SUPPOSED to be. The Strip is completely different, though. That's where the TOURISTS go. TOURISTS want new and fancy, not old and retro. If you want old and retro go to FREMONT STREET.
So much better when they fall sideways, what are they bitchen' about!?!
jbrabec22 2 weeks ago
im thinking of mars attacks
awesome10443 1 month ago
Ok, Who destroyed the Lucky 38?!? (FNV Rerence)
SSAirsoftowns 2 months ago
Wow. I don't think that went down as planned.
gethsenamane 3 months ago
I was taking a bath in my room when the SoBs blew the place away from under my feet!But,I lived to tell this tale!
Squarerig 4 months ago
Too bad as it was a unique architecture.
patsaxon 4 months ago 2
:34 LOL now they run.
MrAngryGorilla2000 5 months ago
I've really enjoyed reading through all the nostalgic comments on this video. I'm only 18 so I will never experience the golden days of Vegas. At least I can still read reminiscences of it and listen to the great music of the time.
jman3267 6 months ago
If anyone has played Fallout: New Vegas the lucky 38 was based on the Landmark hotel.
jman3267 6 months ago
Wow, I remember this. My uncle, dad and myself went to go see it. Poor old building, now most if not all of the old beautiful places are gone :(
aaronpapanos 6 months ago
thumbs up if you thought of Mars Attacks
Dannyboy2k6 6 months ago 5
"Didya see that, dad?" LOL funny kid
Adawg4008 6 months ago 2
@Adawg4008 hahaha that kid was actually me :P I was right under the camera as my father filmed it. I was 6 years old at the time.
MarcW23 6 months ago 9
I grew up in the old Las Vegas, and was there to see the Landmark come down......sad day.
MrVoodoodog 6 months ago 3
I miss old Vegas. Agreed house Of groove. Friggin Disney Land the place is now....
DET832 7 months ago
The Landmark Hotel is better than the Stratosphere.
hoteliwinshowcases 8 months ago 4
5:41 AM? imagine like "ZZzzZZzzZZZzzz >>BBBUBUBUUUUMMMMM<< WTF?! - OMG fucking building just crashed" xD
crackmaster88 8 months ago
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It looked pretty cool
DavinR16 8 months ago
The Landmark died hard, like the sonovabitch of a hotel it lived as. -:)
Calbeck 9 months ago 2
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"Lets get out of the asbestos cloud" 0:39 THUMBS UP!
JonTheChron 9 months ago
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JonTheChron 9 months ago
i think the stratospere is better
jackknife001 10 months ago
Always wonder what it must have been like to stay in that Hotel?
deltaalpha21074 10 months ago
Vegas is still a great place to go and have fun. For those of us who miss the old days, I can only say that you can't retain the "Golden Era" when the class of entertainment is what it is now. When Carrot Top is the reining king of Vegas...well, there you go. My wife and I are going back and plan on staying at The Golden Nugget. We make our own fun and still enjoy ourselves alot.
kbear1955 11 months ago
this nice hotel will be replaced with some ugly shit, i am sure....
KAESEPEITSCHE 1 year ago 2
@KAESEPEITSCHE - So far, it's just a parking lot for the Convention Center.
As usual, the taxpayers pay and someone else profits.
KutWrite 11 months ago
Sands best buffalo wings & ice cold Beer!
wandoX 1 year ago
Vegas is run by GREED ...And it is dying by it. A overbuilt crowded wasteland.
BOBYBY2424 1 year ago
@BOBYBY2424 Wake up.. the whole world is run by greed.
scaremengaviation 1 year ago
I'm with a lot of you. There is absolutely NO respect for history here. If it's more than 30 years old, they blow it up. I probably have a bomb under my seat now...
I grew up in Vegas (finally getting out soon!), and I was pissed when they did this. I don't think they even let anyone know they were doing it because people like me probably would have chained themselves to it.
It's in an Elvis movie! The Rat Pack started at the Sands (another destroyed monument)! C'mon people...
SenecaHighlander 1 year ago
@SenecaHighlander . don't take it personally, it wasn't getting money because it wasn't modeled as nice as the venetian or wynn or bellagio, so they demoed it and now a new and better one will come in its place, thats how vegas, and the world goes.
lakerstrufan24 1 year ago
And another of the great ones bites the dust...
The city of Vegas has a CRIMINAL lack of respect for history...
I used to travel there all the time and even lived there for a couple of years. No more!! I haven't been back in nearly 10 years and have no intention of returning!
tsloverlarry 1 year ago
"lets get out of the asbestos cloud"
Ginger6259 1 year ago
Looks kinda fimiliar. i dunno something with the name of 9/something. OH YH 9/11
TheLiquidSolid 1 year ago
I don't think it was supposted to tip over... :-/
kamratframjandet 1 year ago
There goes history.. My fav hotel gone :,(
JFAwx 1 year ago
Haha, no one remembers this unless they were grown folk. I was in third grade goin 2 school in vegas, and i remember seein it. Great post! :)
accentplaya18 1 year ago
why did they have to tear down the "first" futuristic hotel in Vegas to make way for a stupid parking lot?!?!?
TheORLYTV 1 year ago
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Looks like the botched it. If you want to see how the professionals do a demolition do a YouTube search for WTC7.
sivartretrac 1 year ago
it split in two!
trackmaniakid27 1 year ago
I was just in Vegas two weeks ago, staying downtown. I tell you, all the magic of classic Vegas is long gone---those great 60's era atomic buildings, the kitsch. Watching this demolition video now saddens me.
Any trace of history in Vegas is virtually nonexistent. So sad.
JimmBailey 2 years ago 3
@JimmBailey
I SO agree. I live here in Vegas and everything is just...BLAH these days.
MustHaveKandy 1 year ago
@JimmBailey
The whole point of Vegas is that there is little visible history. It's the city that is always demolishing and building anew. Vegas is now more than just slot machines, cheap hotel rooms, and big name stars like it used to be.
3rkid2 1 year ago
why the people "bomb" that building????from Malaysia...
AD99242 2 years ago
lol that was on a scene on Mars Attacks
Devinfilms6679 2 years ago 4
let me tell you something about timeshare location location location
jck7111 2 years ago
why they just sitting there like nothin happening!
jefhardy09 2 years ago
i wish it would have hit that little bulding
diperboy1 2 years ago
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Just like 9/11! Aside from the deafening controlled demolition explosions....
paintedbishop 2 years ago
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@paintedbishop I think you mean: Just like 9/11 with the controlled demolition explosions!
speckyprick 2 years ago
I practically lived at the Landmark in 1982!! It was my all time favorite place to go! I especially loved the pool in the shape of a whale.
bodyvegas 2 years ago 3
I worked there for ten years. It was the best job and most fun I ever had in my whole life. I wish I could walk in, look around and reminisce. But it's gone. Along with the Dunes, Sands, Stardust. Sad. I hate what this town's become. I miss the real Vegas.
theoldmaninvegas 2 years ago 2
Wow cool!
Treadstone1231 2 years ago
They used the explosion for the movie Mars Attacks..
in the movie A UFO shoots it to crap
13Psycho13 2 years ago
You people have to understand, that building was extremely decayed by the time it went down.
It was an underfunded rotting corpse ever since it opened in 1969. However, a nice $100 million renovation could have brought it back to life
Bartels92 2 years ago
OH please, the way you talk it was falling apart!! Granted it did have a flaw in it's design, but that was all. That's why it split in two when it was imploded.
bodyvegas 2 years ago
Why are people cheering for seeing a building destroyed?
ShinyRayquaza2 2 years ago
'Cause they're dumb?
spavatch 2 years ago
mars attacks xDD
LAPA89lbc 2 years ago
look carefully and you can see the earth shaking when the building falls down
VREDFOX 2 years ago
Vegas is a mere ghost of it's old days. Fricken kids everywhere and Disneyland attractions all over the place. Yuck! My late father Bill Rogers was the arranger and concuctor of the Frank Sinatra Orchestra and the Frank Sinatra Jr. Orchestra. He also did the Jerry Lewis Telethon arrangements for 20 years. He wrote for scores of people in Vegas including the Rat Pack guys and was a monster in his field. R.I.P. Dad. :) Bring back the MOB days when a musician could at least make a living there.
HouseOfGroove 3 years ago 23
It pains me to say this, but Vegas was better when the mob ran things...
MarcW23 2 years ago 27
@MarcW23 Still does Biggest MOB on Earth which gets 40 cents on every single dollar called US Government or IRS...forced mobsters to go corporate so as to control TAXES...Feds on the take.
deltaalpha21074 10 months ago
Great comment. What a mistake to knock down the old Vegas landmarks. They're knocking down history. Are there any old Vegas buildings left? If so, will they be saved? I haven't been to Vegas, yet, but when I do go, I'd like to see some of the old haunts of the Rat Pack, etc., but I guess they're all gone, now.
In the name of progress, American culture is being turned into one big, bland shopping mall.
life54321 2 years ago 3
@life54321 i heard the only historic hotels left are the mirage & mgm grand
godzillaisbeast1 1 year ago
@HouseOfGroove..... I agree with you. I remember the Vegas with the Sands, the Dunes, the Stardust long before these mega casinos and hotels. Vegas was better then. Progress doesn't always make things better.
werksdesign 1 year ago 2
@HouseOfGroove This post reminds me of The Casino.
Ktallica 1 year ago
so much tax money is spent on shitty public art, then they go & blow up a perfectly exquisite artistic timepiece like this. shameful. i remember this beautiful building from many trips to the convention center. i think it should have been restored like '57 cadillac. the first frames of this video look like a classic postcard. someone used a photo of this tower falling on a cd cover. who was it?
flyingfishsurf 3 years ago 2
I like seeing different opinions on here. My only problem with your comment is comparing the old downtown section with the old strip casinos. Just like these new monster homes I don't find anything about them pretty. It is like seeing a pretty woman wearing way too much makeup and gold jewelry, it's just gauche. But that is my opinion. The old Landmark to me was gorgeous. Space age and clean lines. There is nothing clean about these new casinos.
DA90027 3 years ago
That's your opinion. Fremont St. had nothing like the Stardust, the Sands etc. The new ones ARE UGLY as hell, they lack charm, and we ALL know the general public has no taste. Most are from the mid west where they think Hometown Buffet is gourmet dining.
DA90027 3 years ago
I know that's my opinion, but that doesn't mean yours is fact. I hope you realize that.
LeoRoy1902 3 years ago
sad :-(
implosions1098765432 3 years ago
That's sad to see so much of the good Las Vegas be destroyed like that, only to be replaced with this overpriced, overrated crap like the Wynn and City Center, and soon Echelon Place. The StarDust was way better than that place ever will be, if it ever gets built!
UtahImplosion 3 years ago
That building was TEN times prettier than the god awful butt ugly shit they call casinos now. These new buildings are overdone gaudy messes that look like women with too much makeup on. Steve Wynn is an a hole who should get rectal caner for what he has done to that city.
DA90027 3 years ago 2
PRETTY? That ugly fucker looked like a Martian warship! Still sad though. And the new ones are overdone, of course they are. I mean, that's the POINT. The people that WANT the classic Vegas should stay on Fremont street. That's where the classic hotels are SUPPOSED to be. The Strip is completely different, though. That's where the TOURISTS go. TOURISTS want new and fancy, not old and retro. If you want old and retro go to FREMONT STREET.
LeoRoy1902 3 years ago
Nice building
RedikCZE 3 years ago
MARS ATTACK!
andreshawk13 3 years ago 4
O_O It split in half!
Gigacorn 3 years ago
woot
thelandmarkwhy1995 3 years ago