New Frontier Closing Date Las Vegas Strip News- repost from Vegas
: Thanks to our good friends at Vegas Today and Tomorrow.com for letting us know the New Frontier will be closing on July 16th, 2007 at Midnight . No date yet on the Impolosion but the Oldest Lady on the strip is coming down finally . Once again if you haven't done so please check out Vegastodayandtomorrow.com ALOT of information is available there and they also have a myspace . Here also is some info on the Last Frontier .

The Last Frontier was opened on Oct 30, 1942 and was the second "Strip" resort on the famous Las Vegas Strip .

It only had at the time 105 Rooms

People who have performed there have ranged from Ronald Reagan, Frank Sinatra, Benny Goodman, Sammy Davis Jr, Judy Garland, Elvis, Mickey Rooney

The building That is Now the Last Frontier was built in 1967 and one of the owners at that time was a youngster by the name ....Steve Wynn

Because of "Mob Ties" Howard Hughes bought the Last Frontier on Sept 22, 1967 and shortened the name to "The Frontier"

The Sign in Front of the Frontier was put up in 1969

The first time the Frontier was rumored to be closing in 2000 there was talks that it was going to be a San Francisco based themed resort . Of course it never happened

The old rumor is that the "New" resort on the site will be named Montreux after a Swiss resort town known for it's Jazz Festival . It also is rumored to have a Observation tower and cater to "The High End Client's". But that has changed to Plaza Las Vegas . ELAD Properties which owns the Plaza New York bought out the area of the Frontier and will put up the Resort . It is said that the main resort will be a replica of the New York Hotel

Thanks again goes out to Vegastodayandtomorrow.com for the info.