The hotel is also referred briefly in The Godfather Part II and a few deleted scenes take place inside the hotel. The Las Vegas sequence of The Godfather was filmed in the Tropicana.
In the 7th James Bond film, Diamonds Are Forever, 007 stays at the hotel Tropicana. In the 1960s, the Tropicana fared poorly from competition with the larger hotels such as Caesars Palace and the Las Vegas Hilton.Ī scene from Folies Bergere is featured in the 1964 Elvis Presley film Viva Las Vegas. In 1955, Ben Jaffe, an executive of the Fontainebleau Miami Beach, came to Las Vegas and bought a 40-acre parcel at the corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Bond Road (now Tropicana Avenue) Construction ran over schedule and over budget, due in part to competition for labor with the under-construction Stardust down the road. Instead, the Tropicana is linked by overhead pedestrian bridges.
Pedestrians are not allowed to cross at street level. Tropicana Las Vegas Hotel and Casino is located on the south end of Las Vegas Strip on Tropicana Avenue.Īt this location, Tropicana Ave & Las Vegas Boulevard intersection, has the most hotel rooms of any intersection in the world and is also one of the busiest.
