The Stardust Resort and Casino, the model for the Scorsese film Casino and the site of the best neon sign on the Strip, officially closed down today, to be replaced by the much fancier Echelon Place. Implosion date, if at all, still unknown. I just hope that the beautiful sign is preserved somehow, perhaps at the Neon Graveyard.

And the last long lap is the hardest,
And I shall be dumped where the weed decays,
And the rest is rust and stardust. -Nabokov

(Photo by David M.)