Brokedown Palace.

Nevada Palace, just before closing last week.



Nevada Palace, today. They've started taking the sign down now, and there's a huge metal fence around the whole property. The place still lights up at night, or did last night anyway...eerie and ghostlike, as if there are still phantom gamblers inside, playing blackjack with the dealer from Hell. Or something. Maybe I'm just high. I suspect that there won't be an implosion on this one. It'll be a lot like the Stardust. Some guys will come by and just start knocking crap over with a bulldozer. Very anti-climactic.



The Las Vegas sign. Not the famous Las Vegas sign on Las Vegas Boulevard, but the other one. This one is on Boulder Highway as you enter the city limits, more or less. Looks pretty much identical to the real sign, and for all I know they put duplicates on all major roads entering Vegas, but this one is in front of an Albertsons and a Burger King less than a block from where I live. Keep driving for many, many miles and Boulder Highway becomes Fremont Street. Just behind the sign you can see the former Nevada Palace and the much larger Eastside Cannery Casino being built behind it.