The Tropicana

Opened 1957  ·  Card no. 9590

The most expensive hotel ever built in Nevada, sold as the Tiffany of the Strip. Five weeks after it opened a gunman missed Frank Costello in New York, and the police found the Tropicana's casino receipts in his coat, to the dollar.

Send this card free

Every card in this collection is an original painting, free to send by email or by link, with no account and nothing to install. The full history of these places is in Painted Postcards: Las Vegas.