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The iconic Mirage hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip will shut its doors this summer, the end of an era for a property credited with helping transform Sin City into an ultra-luxury resort ...
The Mirage Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip, and its instantly recognizable volcano, is soon shutting down after more than three decades in business.. The 3,000-room resort will cease ...
The Mirage Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip is closing Wednesday, ending 34 years in business.
Developed by former casino mogul Steve Wynn, the Mirage opened with a Polynesian theme as the Strip's first megaresort in 1989, spurring a building boom on the famous boulevard through the 1990s. Its volcano fountain was one of the first sidewalk attractions, predating the Venetian’s canals and the Bellagio’s dancing fountains.
The Mirage's casino measures 90,548 sq ft (8,412.2 m 2). [143] It opened with 2,300 slot machines and 115 table games. [24] A high-limit area was added at the last minute, having been overlooked prior to that point. [15] The Mirage was the first Las Vegas casino to use security cameras full-time on all table games. [144]
Wynn's first major casino on the Las Vegas Strip was The Mirage, which opened in November 1989. [2] It was the first time Wynn was involved with the design and construction of a casino, and he financed the $630 million project largely with high-yield bonds issued by Michael Milken. [3]
The Mirage’s opening by casino tycoon Stephen A. Wynn in 1989 was hailed as the ushering of a new era of resorts. It was the first strip hotel to open since the MGM Grand in 1973.
Screenwriter Kate Gersten visited the Jubilee! show before it concluded and was inspired to write a play about the dancers in a similar Las Vegas show's closing. That unproduced play became the basis for the screenplay she wrote for The Last Showgirl , starring Pamela Anderson as a Las Vegas showgirl near the end of her career at the closing of ...