Frontier - After The Implosion

Some very recent shots of The Frontier as of one and a half days following the implosion.

Frontier Aftermath - The Front View

The buildings which surrounded the main hotel tower of The Frontier are almost all still standing. (The ex-presidential suite building in the rear is gone.)

Looking at The Frontier from across the street at Wynn, it is easy to forget precisely where the main hotel building stood. Someone visiting for the first time would not be aware that a building was missing.

These photos show the front view of The Frontier as it looked yesterday, less than 12 hours following the implosion.

What is taking so long? I have no idea.

Frontier Implosion Aftermath

Here is the first daylight look at The Frontier, following the implosion. I took these photos approximately 10 or 11 hours after the implosion.

The shorter buildings which surrounded the main hotel tower are still standing. From the front, a person who did not know that a larger tower was there, would not suspect that anything was missing.

I will likely get to posting those front view photos tomorrow. One can actually see right through the rooms, to the hallway, and to the rooms on the other side. They are not furnished, but the classic Frontier doors remain.

Frontier Implosion Fireworks

It is odd waking up early and doing a short drive to photograph an implosion at 230 AM. It is especially odd having done it a few times. Although it is the same implosion and fireworks whether one is visiting or living here, there is something about the living here which alters the perception of the event. After the event I feel as if I should be returning to a hotel room, but instead I return home.

That is okay though.

Frontier Implosion - Smoke

Four shots of the smoke and dust after the implosion of The Frontier.

Frontier - The Implosion

Sequence of shots I took of the implosion of The Frontier in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Frontier Imploded Series (Day Before Group)

Here are several views of The Frontier as I photographed it on Monday 12 November 2007, half a day before the early morning implosion.

Frontier Imploded

The Frontier has been imploded. I filmed and photographed it from Las Vegas Boulevard and Cathedral Way; the 3rd implosion I have attended at that intersection this year. [Wynn Garage, Stardust, Frontier]

There was a good fireworks show before the implosion.

When the implosion finally came, the north side of the tower blew out first, shooting plumes of smoke horizontally from the middle floors. Then the building collapsed from that side to the south side.

The area near StripBurger was heavily smoked and covered with dust.

More to come as time permits, including final daylight shots.

Las Vegas - Frontier Implosion In 25 1/2 Hours

Apparently The Frontier will be imploded in little more than a day. These photos, 12 hours old, show why I didn't think the implosion would be ready for the 13th.

I still don't think they are ready. I just don't think they care. Ready or not, The Frontier will be imploded in little more than a day.

Frontier Implosion - T Minus 90 Hours (or so they say)

Supposedly in the early hours of 13 November 2007 The Frontier will be imploded (0230 hrs.).

I have voiced my disbelief that it will happen on that date.

The building still has glass in place, and to my untrained eyes the area still looks like a mess. Imploding the building the way it looks now, seems too soon; the pre-implosion gutting and cleanup does not seem to be done.

Perhaps as with the Wynn garage implosion, there will be a giant tarp covering the entire Frontier for the implosion.

If not, ???

I will be at the implosion.

Frontier Las Vegas - Almost As It Was

This is as fresh as it gets. The Frontier as phoographed yesterday afternoon.

As with many demolitions, the front of The Frontier is being kept as untouched as possible, for as long as possible, while the majority of activity occurs on the backside.

Most visitors to Las Vegas do not venture on Fashion Show Drive, because there is obviously nothing to see there, (and the sidewalks on both sides are noncontinuous at points).

I walked up Fashion Show Drive, and got these, and many more photos of the demolition of The Frontier.

In a little while, when the building is far more gutted and bare than it is right now, it will not be as striking for me to look at The Frontier. When the building is a standing shell, awaiting implosion, it will already be dead.

Right now though, The Frontier is still alive, as it is taken apart. Take a look at the rooms which have had their outer walls removed. One of them still has a television.

The place is real. It is almost as it was.

Frontier Las Vegas - Mattresses And Windows

It is as if The Frontier was turned into an internment camp, and a riot ensued. Fenced in. Some windows out, others broken. Mattresses piled high around the perimeter. Chairs and other vaguely discernable pieces of furniture scattered about. Carpeting ripped up and piled with other trash on the ground of what was the vicinity of the main entrance valet area.

Frontier - Demolition By Clauss Construction

The demolition signs are up at The Frontier. I don't know the actual date for the implosion. My guess is that Clauss does not know it yet either.

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This is a different company than was used for The Stardust; (Controlled Demolition Of Baltimore was used for The Stardust).

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Clauss has a website:

http://www.claussconstruction.com/