Tropicana casino and hotel in Las Vegas closed its doors this week after 67 years. It was the refuge of the mafia and the Rat Pack in the sixties.
Sammy Davis Jr. was the first black person to own shares in a Las Vegas hotel. The Tropicana opened its doors in 1957, when Las Vegas barely had 100,000 inhabitants. Today it has 2.3 million. Demolition of the resort will begin in October. Then the construction of a baseball stadium for the A's will begin.