For Las Vegas, 2020 is in the past, but 2021 doesn’t look any different
By Howard Stutz, Executive Editor, CDC Gaming Reports
January 2, 2021 at
5:00 am
Somewhere out in the dark and empty desert around midnight on New Year’s Eve, Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority officials oversaw the spectacular implosion of a 2020 sign.
Maybe they were channeling the scene from the 1995 film, “Casino.” Gangster Nicky Santoro described Las Vegas as having “a lot of holes in the desert, and a lot of problems are buried in those holes.”
Via a live stream broadcast on New Year’s Eve, the implosion signaled the end of 2020 – the destination’s most catastrophic year on record. Maybe they buried the remnants in a hole.