So long, Riviera

For those of us who couldn’t be there, this was the scene as the remaining vestiges of the Riviera swooned gracefully into a pile of debris. You can see spectators scurrying to evade the dust cloud, as it threatens to engulf Circus Circus. The Las Vegas Convention & Visitors Authority‘s efforts to keep the event on the lowdown were clearly for naught. Here’s the unexpurgated, narrated version of the twilight of the Old Vegas gods: