What you’re referring to was the façade of the casino or as one blog described it, "the hotel’s much-photographed front-facing decorative protrusion thingy." It took a lot of calling and e-mailing but Caesars Entertainment eventually confirmed that the iconic glass decoration was sold at auction. So much for that.
We experienced comparable difficulty in locating the "Garden of Earthly Delights," considered the largest Tiffany stained-glass mural in the world. Thirty feet high by five feet high, it was the handiwork of the Wallach Stained Glass Studio, in Berkeley, Cal. It took 10 glass workers as many months to fashion it and it was installed in the Barbary Coast in May 1984.
According to a Boyd Gaming spokesman, the mural was relocated to the Via Veneto restaurant (now closed) at Suncoast Hotel & Casino, during the period that Michael Gaughan was an executive of Boyd Gaming, having sold Coast Resorts.
In 2006, when Gaughan bought South Point hotel-casino from Boyd and went independent, he also took with him certain decorative assets. These included the mural, as well as a glass dome that had been in Michael’s restaurant in Barbary Coast. The latter can be found in Michael’s in South Point now. As for the mural, it’s in storage at South Point. According to a casino spokeswoman, "Mr. Gaughan hasn’t decided what to do with it yet or where to put it."
