Strip hotel implosion set for Oct. 3

Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2000 | 9:25 a.m.

The El Rancho hotel-casino, a longtime eyesore on the Las Vegas Strip, will go out with a bang Oct. 3.

The developers of the upscale Turnberry Place condominiums plan to implode the El Rancho at 2:30 a.m., company spokesman Matt Levinson said.

"For security reasons, we don't want to make a big deal out of the implosion," he said. "We don't want 100,000 people out there causing a big commotion.

Construction on Turnberry Place's first tower is expected to be finished by the end of the year.

The last implosion witnessed in the city was when the original Aladdin was brought down in 1998.

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