{"id":85554,"date":"2024-10-07T21:04:11","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T21:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/07\/ballys-donates-historical-tropicana-memorabilia-to-unlv\/"},"modified":"2024-10-07T21:04:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T21:04:11","slug":"ballys-donates-historical-tropicana-memorabilia-to-unlv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/07\/ballys-donates-historical-tropicana-memorabilia-to-unlv\/","title":{"rendered":"Bally\u2019s Donates Historical Tropicana Memorabilia to UNLV"},"content":{"rendered":"


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After it\u2019s imploded on Wednesday morning, the best way to relive memories of the Tropicana Las Vegas will be to head two miles east of the vacant lot to UNLV.<\/p>\n

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The cast and crew of the 1975 edition of \u201cFolies Berg\u00e8re\u201d poses in front of the Tropicana marquee in a photo newly donated to UNLV by Tropicana owner Bally\u2019s. (Image: UNLV Special Collections via the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nevada\u2019s largest university recently received five boxes of history from the Rat Pack-era casino resort, most of which it has processed and made available for public perusal \u2014 both in person and online.<\/a><\/p>\n

But UNLV didn\u2019t wait for the Tropicana\u2019s owner to approach them.<\/em> As soon as it heard that Bally\u2019s was planning to close and demolish the historic property \u2014 which it purchased in 2022 for $148 million from Gaming & Leisure Properties<\/a> \u2014 the university\u2019s Special Collections and Archives department contacted the casino resort\u2019s general manager.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe met with them early on to explain what we were interested in,\u201d Sarah Quigley, director of\u00a0 the department, told Casino.org.<\/em> \u201cAnd then, as they were decommissioning the building, the staff gathered things up and we went over one day and just picked it up.\u201d<\/p>\n

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As will be demonstrated on Wednesday morning, Las Vegas is notorious for looking incessantly forward at the expense of preserving its history.<\/p>\n

But universities like UNLV \u2014 even though they can\u2019t help save buildings, do their best to preserve the details of what happened inside of them, so future historians can paint more accurate pictures about the past.<\/p>\n

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The collection includes programs from several editions of the Tropicana\u2019s \u201cFolies Berg\u00e8re,\u201d including this one from 1969. (Image: UNLV Special Collections)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Its Tropicana collection consists of architectural drawings from various renovations, business reports, memos, menus, financial information, and training manuals for staff.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe training manuals are, I think, what tell us the most about how a business was operated and the impact that it likely had on the surrounding community,\u201d Quigley told us. \u201cFor example, we have the manual that they gave to their phone operators, which describes not only how they were to run the telecoms, but the expectations from them in terms of customer service.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat tells us a lot about the culture of a business, and how this one stayed in business so long.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are also more glamorous components, such as photos, programs and brochures from the most of the Tropicana\u2019s entertainment offerings.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s even a box of unseen film reels from the longest-running show in Las Vegas history. The showgirl show \u201cFolies Berg\u00e8re\u201d ran at the Tropicana from 1959 through until 2009. Shot by the Tropicana in the 1970s, this footage \u2014 which Quigley categorizes as \u201csuper cool\u201d \u2014 has yet to be digitized, so it\u2019s not available to the public at the moment.

<\/strong>\u201cI think that would be something good to put online when the time comes,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

Expect to eventually see it see it in a ton of future documentaries about Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

UNLV\u2019s Special Collections department preserves more than 11,000 linear feet of archival and manuscript collections at its main library, Lied, located at 4505 S. Maryland Parkway. While larger universities may have larger collections, UNLV is the only one in Las Vegas, which means that its gaming collection is unrivaled in the world.
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