With rumblings and colorful flashes, Las Vegas’ last true Mafia-era casino, the Tropicana, a landmark hotel and gambling parlor, was reduced to rubble on Wednesday.

It was no coincidence: the Rat Pack’s legendary haunt and the place James Bond said he heard was “quite comfortable” in the 1971 007 film Diamonds Are Forever, the Tropicana’s heyday, was deliberately destroyed during an extensive implosion in the early hours.

The hotel towers collapsed during a party that included fireworks. It was the first implosion in nearly a decade for a city that loves a fresh start and made way for a new baseball stadium.

“What Las Vegas has done, in classic Las Vegas style, they’ve turned a lot of these implosions into spectacles,” Geoff Schumacher, historian and vice president of exhibitions and programs at the Mob Museum, told the Associated Press.

Former casino magnate Steve Wynn changed the way Las Vegas blew up casinos in 1993 with the implosion of the Dunes to make way for the Bellagio. Wynn not only thought about televising the event, but also created a fantastic story for the implosion that made it look like pirate ships were shooting at the Dunes in his other casino across the street.

From that moment on, Schumacher said, there was a sense in Las Vegas that destruction of that magnitude was worth seeing. “Sin City” hasn’t blown up a casino on the Las Vegas Strip since 2016, when the Riviera’s last tower was razed for a convention center expansion.

That leaves only the Flamingo from the mafia era on the Strip. But, Schumacher said, the Flamingo’s original structures are long gone. The casino was completely rebuilt in the 1990s.

The Tropicana, the third-oldest casino on the Strip, closed in April after 67 years of welcoming guests, and its past under Mafia control has long cemented its place in the city’s history.

Behind the scenes of the casino’s grand opening in 1957, the Tropicana had ties to organized crime, largely through reputed gangster Frank Costello. He was shot in the head weeks after the Tropicana’s debut in New York and survived, but police found a piece of paper in his jacket pocket showing the Tropicana’s exact revenue figure, showing the Mafia’s share of the casino.

In the 1970s, federal authorities investigating gangsters in Kansas City accused more than a dozen agents of conspiring to siphon $2 million in gambling revenue from Las Vegas casinos, including the Tropicana. The charges related to the Tropicana alone resulted in five convictions.

There were no public viewing areas for the controlled implosion, but fans of the Tropicana did have a chance to say goodbye to the vintage Vegas relic in April.

“Old Vegas, it’s going,” New Jersey resident Joe Zappulla said through tears as he left the casino shortly before the locks went up on the doors.