It also stumbled and what had been the El Rancho became a decaying eyesore. Occasional buyers would stop by, talk about big plans - hotel towers shaped like cowboy boots, casinos with the look of flying saucers. Then these prospective buyers would disappear into various black holes. The plan now is to implode the El Rancho. Probably turn it into a parking lot or a potential building side for the new owners who are developing a luxury high-rise condo on the El Rancho's back forty.
Life goes on.
Keeping the Las Vegas legend alive and well leaves little time for nostalgia.