Castaways Hotel Now a Heap of Rubble
From Times Wire Reports
After spending two shuttered years living up to its name, the Castaways hotel and casino in Las Vegas went out with a bang.
A series of planned explosions reduced the 19-story tower to a 20,000-ton heap of rubble and raised a huge cloud of dust about three miles from the Strip. The Castaways had been closed since changing hands in a bankruptcy proceeding in 2004.
The 447-room building opened in 1955 as the Showboat, which hosted professional bowling tour events.
It changed hands several times in the 1990s.
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