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On 2011-07-31 04:13, howlinowl wrote:
I seem to remember reading about the landmark being started earlier.....like in '61 or '62? They ran out of funds during building and or changed the plans to add floors to it because they wanted it to be the tallest structure in Vegas and something else started going up that was going to be taller? Didn't it sit dormant for a few years until they finally finished it up in '69? Been a while since I'd read up on it. That would kinda explain why it's in the window. Either that, or the Landmark was under construction at the time and they added it to the window to make sure the window stayed current after the Landmark was completed.
howlinowl
According to that website link on the history, you are right Howlinowl; "The off-Strip Landmark Hotel began as an unfinished attraction for a shopping center ....
In 1960, Frank Carroll, a successful building contractor from Kansas City, bought land on Paradise Road and Convention Center Drive..."
They same "fate" befell the Stratosphere Tower, it sat unfinished for a handful of years after Bob Stupak ran out of money. Of course, it was eventually finished (by someone else).
Note; the Landmark neon sign was reinstalled around 2009. It involved some sort of funding-for-sign swap from the Neon Boneyard. From my understanding, the Neon Boneyard gave the sign to the Convention Authority in exchange for dollars to help build the Boneyard into a museum with regular hours (and a rebuilt La Concha lobby)-something that should be finished within the year.
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