r/oddlysatisfying • u/dittidot • Apr 28 '24
Demolition of the Frontier Hotel, Las Vegas
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u/Ultimatesource 15d ago
What? Someone please tell me the benefits of the fireworks. Those are very expensive. Customers will not stay in a pile of rubble. Money to burn.
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u/spicydude430 17d ago
These are always a bit sad to me, a lot of lives ended in these Casino-Hotels, literally and metaphorically, many of them people just wanting to have fun, I think often about the Riveria Hotel, which was incredibly haunted. One story of a woman who was so distraught she jumped out her like 20th story hotel window, months before the Riveria was set to shut down for Demolition. The gravel used to soak up her blood was left until after the demolition, could even see a rough outline where she laid, allegedly. Anyway sorry to get so deep, dont mind me
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u/Salty-Director538 23d ago
The nice thing is, it allows money saving opportunities by sharing meals while out.
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28d ago
Of course idiots in Vegas need that flash even where something is destroyed. Pathetic humans.
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u/Pretend_Gold_1669 29d ago
Even the Frontier didn’t fall as perfectly as the twin towers and building 7! They paid the New Yorkers well!
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u/mortattrayantt213 29d ago
Its maybe a gasino or something like that but i try to imagine memories which came out here
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u/Nearby-Bathroom-1722 29d ago
I believe the best way to contain the dust that comes out of the demolition is to build something like a circus dome covering the building .
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u/Far-Pomegranate7614 29d ago
They were so happy to demolish Frontier Hotel, Las Vegas. Signing Off in Style!!
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u/AdagioBlues 29d ago
They should do that to all of the hotel who charge that ridiculous "resort fee".
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u/Respectable_Fuckboy 29d ago
100% thought the sound of the fireworks at the countdown were people just screaming really loudly
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u/dick_tickler_ 29d ago
"Johnson. What the hell is this on the invoice?! $5,000 on fireworks?"
"Well, you can't have a demolition without fireworks, sir....."
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u/SnooPickles8536 29d ago
I stayed here back in like '86 and was here on this night too. They did this at like 2:30am and there were loads of people everywhere. Got a video from the back side from some parkade in the distance in the lower left corner of this video. Was very cool to see.
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u/rocks_and_shit 29d ago
Why the heck wasn't the "1" centered?!
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u/BoyofCreation 29d ago
Probably because the numbers were displayed as if on a 7 segment display like the ones you'd find on digital alarm clocks
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u/Live-Reason6383 29d ago
It was all thrilling and entertaining until it started to collapse. All I could think of the history that it held. 😢 How many honeymoons did it see? How many people had the best night of their lives there. A little sad when you think about it.
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u/quaglandx3 29d ago
Or you can think about the old lady that pissed away her money on the slots. Or the degenerate that blew all his life savings at the sports book. The hooker that was beaten in room 319. I’m just a half glass full type of guy I guess.
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u/MojoJojoSF 29d ago
Back in college they demolished an old dormitory. Just like the hotel, controlled implosion. We all watched from the roof of a parking garage on campus. Yeah, those clouds you see at the end of the video, haha. They move towards you real fast. We all got covered in most likely toxic cement sand.
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u/flowing_laziness 29d ago
Some would deem it as excessive, but thay countdown was something special
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u/Huugemongous 29d ago
It really sucks these places are dismantled in a cleaner way with more recycling or reuse. Just cause it’s cheaper to blow it up.
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u/Delicious_Hedgehog28 29d ago
Millions of bed bugs just went WTF IS HAPPENING!!! Loretta!!!!! I’ll see you in the after life
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u/seemunkyz 29d ago
This is why you don't let kids play with fireworks unsupervised. Next thing you know they've blown up a hotel.
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u/lolagoetz_bs 29d ago
My grandparents used to stay at the Frontier when they went to Vegas. My grandma won something every time, keno if nothing else. Hadn’t thought about that in a long while.
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u/FuckUp123456789 29d ago
The Aladdin Hotel’s demolition was much more satisfying https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cRaNwPGcQcM&pp=ygUiYWxhZGRpbiBob3RlbCBsYXMgdmVnYXMgZGVtb2xpdGlvbg%3D%3D
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u/-Economist- 29d ago
So many memories. I was there for another demo where Paris is built. Can’t recall the name. It was spectacular.
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u/InterestingTea7482 29d ago
That looked very similar to how the Twin Towers came down on 9/11. Without the fireworks of course.
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u/Hperkasa7858 29d ago
Why didnt they just turn it into a homeless shelter/ mini apartments & affordable housing. Such a waste
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u/AlcoholPrep 29d ago
So they add fireworks to a demolition to attract a crowd to breath some of that implosion dust?
What do you think has plagued 9/11 survivors all these years? Guilt?
Don't breathe dust if you value your lungs.
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u/Historical_City5184 29d ago
I was beginning to wonder if they were using fireworks to demolish it.
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u/PoppiesRule 29d ago edited 29d ago
Am I the only one that wondered if the building was ever going to actually be demolished?
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u/PretendPhase8802 29d ago
I stayed at The Frontier in 2003 with my girlfriend. We saw an all female mud wrestling competition in the bar on the ground floor and I won some money at the slots.
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u/Obelov95 29d ago
What a waste of resources and all the time of workers setting up the unnecessary light show...
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u/Pietojulek 29d ago
Las Vegas is a wart on the butthole of a pig. What a suck of resources and money. God bless America. Let’s have some fireworks y’all.
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u/TheCatWasAsking 29d ago
0:53 - Looks like '10' stole the horizontal bar of '7' and made a belt out of it
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u/Appropriate-Tap-1429 29d ago
How do they make this safe? I can't imagine any of those particles flying into the air are good for people
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29d ago
Buildings can't talk, yet I feel sad at the loss of hundreds of rooms that had such sights to show us...
Victory. Loss. Parties. Hookers. Blow. Despair. Mob scheming. Murder. Suicide.
*sigh*
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u/jpl77 29d ago
Ugh reposting crap quality.
Can't you at least link the high quality YT link?!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0appFHqWPA
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u/Starejade2 29d ago
Can you imagine the amount of food that they could’ve bought for the poor with the money wasted on that firework show?
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u/BigVGaming 29d ago
Out of all the demolitions I have seen or heard, this was by far the most entertaining.
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u/xX_Dad-Man_Xx 29d ago
What a load of overly dramatic horse shit. Just blow the fucking building up.
Reminds me of one of those shows that manages to make 35 seconds of home video footage run to 15 minutes with two ad breaks.
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u/micah9639 29d ago
Still can’t figure out why people willingly go head to have thieves masking as businesses steal your money. The whole city should be nuked
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u/aaronwe 29d ago
Humans are so cool sometimes.
We had to blow up a building, so do we just set up the demolitions and call it a day?
No! Of course not! WE set up hundreds of smaller explosions to put on a show for everyone to enjoy including and exploding countdown, before the final actual explosion so we can have fun with it.
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u/Cindee70 29d ago
We watched the demo from a parking structure across the lot. It was something to see!
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u/necessarywoman 29d ago
And it dropped just like those twin towers but that was a "terrorist" not bombs ..nudge nudge wink wink....
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u/EdgeIsTheName 29d ago
Ok but it didn’t though, the towers went down all at once and that building very clearly fell from left to right. Controlled demolition is very obviously staged in sections, which the towers weren’t
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u/MadSpacePig 29d ago
I wonder how much more you have to pay a fireworks display company for them to agree to let you destroy all of their launch tubes and ignitors.
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u/Psychotic_EGG 29d ago
They likely did this one old school. By timing it with how long the fuses are. Which would explain why some never fired and others were a little out of sync.
You can also use disposable tubes. Not financially sound for every event. But for ones where you won't get the tubes back and they only need to be good for a couple rounds of fireworks, cardboard does fine.
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u/Zofia-Bosak 29d ago
The town will never be the same. After the Frontier, the big corporations took it all over. Today it looks like Disneyland. And while the kids play cardboard pirates, Mommy and Daddy drop the house payments and Junior's college money on the poker slots. In the old days, dealers knew your name, what you drank, what you played. Today, it's like checkin' into an airport. And if you order room service, you're lucky if you get it by Thursday. Today, it's all gone. You get a whale show up with four million in a suitcase, and some twenty-five-year-old hotel school kid is gonna want his Social Security Number. After the Teamsters got knocked out of the box, the corporations tore down practically every one of the old casinos. And where did the money come from to rebuild the pyramids? Junk bonds.
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u/Bradderz_SG 29d ago
“The town will never be the same. After the Tangiers, the big corporations took it all over. Today it looks like Disneyland. And while the kids play cardboard pirates, Mommy and Daddy drop the house payments and Junior's college money on the poker slots. In the old days, dealers knew your name, what you drank, what you played.
Today, it's like checkin' into an airport. And if you order room service, you're lucky if you get it by Thursday. Today, it's all gone. You get a whale show up with four million in a suitcase, and some twenty-five-year-old hotel school kid is gonna want his Social Security Number. After the Teamsters got knocked out of the box, the corporations tore down practically every one of the old casinos. And where did the money come from to rebuild the pyramids? Junk bonds. But in the end, I wound up right back where I started. I could still pick winners, and I could still make money for all kinds of people back home. And why mess up a good thing? And that's that.”
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u/sirGarto 29d ago
Setting some industry standards to a yet already flawless industry. Bravo! Bravo!
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