The Stardust, the hotel where I got my first big Vegas gambling win back in 1994 (a few hundred bucks playing screaming-hot nickle blackjack), is being torn down. Here’s the ‘before’:

…and here’s the ‘after’:

It’s part of the endless ‘progress’ in Vegas, although I hate to see it go. The ‘Dust had cheap gambling, good craps, some real characters and Wayne Newton in the showroom. That’s all gone now.