Just south of the Strip and stumbling distance from the Troubadour, the Tropicana Motel was the palm-trees-and-Astroturf answer to New York’s Chelsea Hotel. The flophouse of choice for hookers, pimps, groupies, runaways, drug dealers and assorted burnouts, the horseshoe-shaped motor lodge was also the favoured dive of some of the biggest names in rock’n’roll history; what the Tropicana lacked in clean towels and functioning plumbing, it made up for with cheap weekly rates,…
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