Like its ancestors on the Boardwalk, most famously the Traymore Hotel, pictured here on a postcard in its preimplosion days, the Sands Casino Hotel will soon be reduced to rubble in dramatic fashion. Pinnacle Entertainment, which bought the Sands and the adjacent former site of the Traymore and plans a ginormous resort, announced it will stage the implosion on Oct. 18th at 9:30 p.m., complete with Grucci fireworks. The company is hailing it as the first casino implosion in Atlantic City, which it would be since the others, The Traymore, sadly in 1972, but also the Breakers, the Chalfont Haddon Hall and the St. Charles, were imploded in pre-casino days. The Boardwalk is just not the same without its old beauties, and that includes the Traymore and the Miss America Pageant. The best way to watch the Sands implosion will probably be from the beach, or from a boat. The best way to watch the Traymore implosion would be to grab a few lemons and rent the Louis Malle classic Atlantic City, which shows the implosion in its opening sequence and whose star Susan Sarandon shows how best to use those lemons, then head for the still-thriving Knife and Fork, where Sarandon famously had lunch with Burt Lancaster. Here's a youtube slice of Susan and her lemons.
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