On this night, Lake Tahoe felt like it was back as the vacation destination. Hard Rock created 500 jobs, its hotel has 539 rooms, the casino includes a sports book, and there will be four live music venues on the property. In a scene as crowded as New Year’s Eve in South Shore’s Stateline Casino Corridor, thousands of people packed to capacity the new Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Lake Tahoe on Wednesday while several hundred more waited to get in at the front entrance next to a monstrous guitar sculpture.

Susan Riley places Michael Jackson’s glove in a glass case. But with the help of a mild early start to winter, more than 700 men at work met the Jan.

Close enough for rock ’n’ roll.Ĭompletion of a $60 million remodel of a huge, historic Lake Tahoe Casino in less than six months seemed like a long shot. Striking an Elvis pose, a Hard Rock Hotel Lake Tahoe employee readies for the opening.