The Riviera Hotel & Casino is no more after the last of 13 controlled implosions organised by the Las Vegas Convention brought the 50-years old property to its knees.

Las Vegas is like a third home for me, and so I am always fascinated by old movies set in Sin City because you get to see how much the landscape has changed over the years.

Another part of that scenery changed in the early hours of Tuesday morning when the Riviera Hotel & Casino crumbled within a series of controlled implosions.

The Riviera opened in 1955 as the ninth resort on The Strip. At that time Liberace was the highest-paid performer in the world, and it was Mr Showmanship who cut the ceremonial ribbon and became the first residential artist of the iconic building.