The Associated Press reports that the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City was demolished today. The venue was the billed host of Wrestlemania IV and V, although they were actually held next door at the Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall, formerly known as the Historic Atlantic City Convention Hall.
The venue originally opened in 1984 and ran until 2014, although it had periods of financial hardship prior to that and filed for bankruptcy multiple times (2004, 2009, 2014). It had fallen into such a state of disrepair since then that pieces of the building were peeling off and falling to the ground. The building was imploded this morning around 9 AM with 3,000 sticks of Dynamite. It took less than twenty seconds to complete.