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You see, across the street from The Encore is a piece of property that used to be the home of the New Frontier Hotel and Casino, which closed in July of '07 and was imploded spectacularly a few months afterward. In its place will be that Plaza Hotel and Casino we mentioned (yes, like the New York Plaza), but for now all that's left of the New Frontier was its old sign. Er, scratch that: all that was left.

According to an Associated Press article, Steve Wynn was not feelin' that sign and wanted it to be gone before his Encore opened directly across the street. We're not sure if by removing the sign he wanted to symbolically declare that his hotel was truly conquering Vegas's "new frontier" or what (actually, that could have been a cool publicity move) — but the move kind of comes off as a little bit divalicious, especially since a Wynn team went onto the property and removed the sign themselves (with permission, of course).

And just what does one do with a giant sign like that? Well, according to the New Frontier's Wikipedia page, the sign will eventually live the rest of its life at the Neon Museum. But this Wikipedia page also has the word "Paradise" in place of "Las Vegas" in a couple of spots, so...

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