Three decades ago, the Strip had a few new additions to its skyline: a pyramid, a pirate ship and a theme park on the land of Oz.
Three new megaresorts opened their doors on the Strip in the last three months of 1993. Then-Circus Circus Enterprises opened the Luxor on Oct. 15. Not two weeks later, Steve Wynn’s Mirage Resorts opened Treasure Island to a big boom. And by the end of the year, Kirk Kerkorian’s MGM Grand Inc. opened its eponymous, record-breaking hotel-casino on Dec. 18.
Each of the developments were part of a pivotal time for the Strip. Megaresort predecessors The Mirage and Excalibur opened several years earlier and proved to casino moguls that an attraction-based concept would bring a new crowd to Las Vegas.
