Yesterday the iconic Riviera Hotel and Casino shuttered for the very last time.
For sixty years she sat mid-strip, slowly losing her best mates The Stardust, The Desert Inn and The Frontier. Progress encroached and she was the last of that kind of "Fabulous Las Vegas". Down The Strip, still in the middle of the action, lie her two remaining peers The Flamingo (forerunner of them all) and The Tropicana. These last two were given new life through deep-pocketed owners, a feat The Riviera was unable to match. She was, in many ways, the faded Hollywood starlet who kept at it, trying for a renewed fame which never came.
Goodbye old girl.
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