Yet the casino still conjures up vintage ... Las Vegas casinos, including the Tropicana. Charges connected to the Tropicana alone resulted in five convictions. But there were many years of mob ...

who also serves on the board of The Mob Museum in downtown Las Vegas. Weeks after the Tropicana debuted, Costello was shot in the head in New York. He survived, but police found in his coat pocket ...

LAS VEGAS — Sin City blew a kiss goodbye to the Tropicana before first light Wednesday in an elaborate implosion that reduced to rubble the last true mob building on the Las Vegas Strip.

The Mob Museum ... matching the Tropicana’s winnings for its first few weeks — to the penny. “That sort of confirmed a lot of rumors about the mob’s involvement in Las Vegas,” Schumacher ...

Tropicana Las Vegas, a Rat Pack-era resort with a bygone history of mob ties, could see some big changes after it trades hands this year. Casino operator Bally’s Corp., which is buying the Strip ...

The Las Vegas classic came down in style with a seven-minute celebration involving 550 drones and 150 “pyrodrones” counting down to the controlled demolition of the resort originally erected ...

Courtesy of Tropicana Las Vegas - a DoubleTree by Hilton ... This storied hotel is one of the oldest in Vegas – it was built in 1957, and once had mob associations – but today it is clean ...