How well do you know Las Vegas Strip history? — QUIZ
Fireworks explode over the Stardust hotel-casino moments before the iconic casino was imploded early Tuesday morning, March 13, 2007, on the Las Vegas Strip. (Jeff Scheid/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The Aladdin hotel-casino collapses under its own weight as it is imploded on the Las Vegas Strip, April 27, 1998. (Jeff Scheid/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Behind an expanding cloud of dust the Stardust hotel-casino falls in on itself as it is imploded early Tuesday morning, March 13, 2007, on the Las Vegas Strip. (John Gurzinski/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Properties located to the west of the Strip, from left, Trump International, the Rio, the Orleans, Wyndham and the Palms, are see from the Stratosphere Tower Friday, Feb. 6, 2015. (Sam Morris/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
This is a view of the Strip looking south from the Stratosphere Tower Friday, Feb. 6, 2015. (Sam Morris/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The Las Vegas Strip has become a new animal from how it was in 1950. With more than a dozen properties closed, imploded or transformed, the four-mile strip of road has seen a lot in the last hundred years.
How well do you know the Las Vegas Strip’s history? Test your knowledge below.
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Contact Kristen DeSilva at 702-477-3895 or kdesilva@reviewjournal.com. Find her on Twitter: @kristendesilva
