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New Frontier Hotel and Casino

LC control no.no2019009714
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Corporate name headingNew Frontier Hotel and Casino
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Variant(s)Frontier Hotel
New Frontier Hotel
The Frontier (Las Vegas, Nev.)
See alsoPredecessor: Frontier Hotel and Casino
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Beginning date1998
Ending date2007-07-16
Associated countryUnited States
LocatedLas Vegas (Nev.)
Found inUNLV special Collections and Archives, viewed February 6, 2019: Guide to the Frontier Hotel and Casino Collection (Historical Background: The Frontier Hotel and Casino opened originally as the Hotel Last Frontier in October of 1942; reopened as the New Frontier with an outer space theme in 1955; newly built Frontier Hotel and Casino was purchased by Howard Hughes in 1967 just before its grand opening; rebranded as the New Frontier in 1998)
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Wikipedia, accessed January 4, 2019: New Frontier Hotel and Casino article (The New Frontier (formerly Last Frontier and The Frontier) was a hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. It was the second resort that opened on the Las Vegas Strip and operated continuously from October 30, 1942 until it closed on July 16, 2007; History: It was subsequently rebuilt and renamed the Hotel Last Frontier in 1942. On April 4, 1955, it was renamed the New Frontier, following a modernization of the resort)
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Online Encyclopedia Nevada website, accessed January 18, 2019: Last Frontier Hotel (Days before it was scheduled to reopen in July 1967, billionaire Howard Hughes bought the New Frontier. Hughes renamed his acquisition the Frontier...In 1997, Elardi sold the resort to Kansas businessman Phil Ruffin...who changed its name back to the New Frontier)