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 * This article is about the casino on the Boulder Strip. For the casino on the Las Vegas Strip see Castaways (casino).
 * This article is about the casino on the Boulder Strip. For the casino on the Las Vegas Strip see Castaways (casino).
 * This article is about the casino on the Boulder Strip. For the casino on the Las Vegas Strip see Castaways (casino).

The Castaways hotel and casino was a hotel and casino located at the north end of the Boulder Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada. The hotel consisted of a 19 story tower containing 445 rooms, an 80,000 square foot casino, and an adjacent RV park.

History
The property opened in 1954 as the Showboat Hotel & Casino, a locals casino with a riverboat theme. The hotel was successful until the 1990s when it suffered the same fate as the downtown casinos, which were losing business to the new megaresorts on the Las Vegas Strip. Many visitors also believed that this casino was located on the Strip since the exterior of Harrah's Las Vegas resembled a showboat.

The Casino complex also was home to the Showboat Sports Pavilion, famous worldwide during the mid to late 1980s as the home to ESPN broadcasts of American Wrestling Association (AWA) Wrestling and International Roller Derby matches. The Pavilion would later be converted to a bowling alley.

The Showboat was sold in March, 2000 and took on the Castaways name along with a south seas theme. The new owners never did well and according to the Associated Press, the facility was crippled by a downturn in tourism that occurred in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks. They lost the hotel to the mortgage company when they could not make the required payments. The mortgage company finally sold the hotel at auction to Station Casinos.

Castaways closed for the last time in 2004.

Demolition began in July 2005. On January 11, 2006, the structure was fully demolished in a controlled implosion.

In order to comply with state gaming regulations to retain the gaming license for this location, a trailer with 16 slot machines was opened on the site for 8 hours on January 8, 2008. The casino, licensed and operated by United Coin Machine Co. took a single #1 bet with a $2.50 payout.

History
The land that the Castaways was built on was first used in 1931 for the Red Rooster Nite Club. That structure was destroyed by a fire in 1933 and it was rebuilt. In 1942, the San Souci Auto Court was built next to the Red Rooster. Later it was absorbed by the Sans Souci Hotel, Inc., which in October 1957 opened the Sans Souci Hotel. In 1963, the property became the site of the Castaways Hotel & Casino. The latter experienced financial trouble and was sold and renamed Oliver's New Castaways Casino. During the 1960s, the hotel had a 15,000 gallon aquarium behind the front desk. Three times a day a show was put on by three naked women in the aquarium.

In February of 1970, the Castaways was sold to billionaire Howard Hughes for $3 million as part of his spree of buying Las Vegas properties. The resort operated until July 1987, when it and the surrounding property were purchased by Steve Wynn. Wynn then proceeded with his plans to develop a new resort on the Castaways' former grounds using the working name Golden Nugget on the Strip. The resort became Mirage and opened on November 22, 1989. A few years later, the Treasure Island was built on more of the land that had been used as the Mirage's parking lot and additional adjacent undeveloped land.