The STRAT Hotel, Casino & Tower
1,149-foot observation tower with thrill rides, a revolving restaurant, and desert-wide views.
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This guide to The STRAT Hotel, Casino & Tower follows Bob Stupak, a Pittsburgh dice runner's son who arrived in Las Vegas at twenty-two and built a tiny casino with an outsized name before rebuilding it as the space-themed Vegas World. You'll hear how a trip to Sydney gave him the idea for a tower to rival the Eiffel Tower's role in Paris, and follow the 1991 groundbreaking through a fire that tore through the half-built structure and a funding scare that nearly ended the project. It closes with Stupak's motorcycle crash weeks before the tower topped out, three weeks before opening night.
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