Frederick Jackson Turner might have liked that headline. In any event, the New Frontier has closed. From the LVRJ:
Amid tears and hugs, the New Frontier closed its doors for good at 12:01 a.m. today.
“I hate to say bye but I must say bye,” said Helen Madison, a casino porter for 34 years, with tears in her eyes.
The hotel estimated that 3,000 people were on the property at 11 p.m. Sunday, an hour before it was to close.
Approximately 1,000 continued to mingle at 12:01 a.m. today, when an alarm sounded signaling the end of the Frontier.
Earlier, longtime employees and customers, mixed with curious onlookers, shared the final minutes as another old Strip property shut its doors to make way for another multibillion-dollar development.
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The 105-room Hotel Last Frontier opened in 1942, the second hotel-casino on the now famous Strip.
The property grew under various ownerships, most notably Howard Hughes who bought it in 1967 for $14 million.
The latest owner, Kansas-based businessman Phil Ruffin, sold the 34.5-acre property in May for $1.2 billion to New York-based El-Ad Group.
The development group, which is controlled by Israeli billionaire Yitzhak Tshuva, plans to spend $5 billion to construct a mixed-use development modeled after New York’s Plaza Hotel.
ReviewJournal.com – News – LAS VEGAS PIONEER: Frontier’s days end
Even though this is an older casino than the Stardust, this isn’t as big a news story locally. I wonder why?