An above-ground swimming pool was added in 1955, and included large porthole windows that allowed outsiders to peer inside.

To compete against hotels further north on the Las Vegas Strip, the Rosoffs believed that the motel needed something to attract tourists arriving from southern California.

[2] In 1987, Allen Rosoff filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against the newly opened La Mirage hotel and casino, alleging that the resort was costing him customers who were confusing the two properties.

[11] By May 1999, Susie Rosoff had filed a formal complaint against police officers, alleging that they were repeatedly harassing customers and employees at the motel.

[1] In August 1999,[12] Allen and Susie Rosoff sold the motel and its 1.5-acre property for $5.5 million to developers Howard Bulloch and David Gaffin.

[13] In 2000, Bulloch, Gaffin and their partner Tom Gonzales transferred ownership of the property to their group, known as New World, with plans for a megaresort.

[2] New World purchased several other nearby motels to accumulate a 77-acre parcel located on the Las Vegas Strip and east of the Mandalay Bay.

[14] In January 2001, plans were announced for World Port Resorts, a megaresort consisting of hotel-casinos, a convention center and a fine arts facility.

[6] The motel was closed in mid-September 2003,[4] after Gonzales' TG Investments took control of 46 acres of the 77-acre parcel, including the Glass Pool Inn property.

[20] The Glass Pool Inn was later used for a scene in the 1993 film Indecent Proposal, in which characters portrayed by Woody Harrelson and Demi Moore check into the motel.

[21] The pool was used in the 1995 film Leaving Las Vegas, in which actors Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue kissed underwater for a scene.

[23] The pool was once used by scuba divers who played poker underwater to encourage donations to The Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon.

[4] The Las Vegas tourism board also filmed an advertisement involving bikini-clad women playing a slot machine while submerged in the pool.

[2] The Glass Pool Inn and Allen Rosoff appear in the opening montage of ABC's short-lived series The Man in the Family, which premiered in 1991.

[16] Cindy Crawford also filmed an episode of her MTV television series, House of Style, in a motel suite that was once used by Allen Rosoff's parents as an apartment.

[27] In the 1990s, a local photographer organized weekly photo contests at the pool which allowed aspiring models to receive portfolio pictures of themselves for free.

[4] Photographer Annie Leibovitz also shot pictures of actor Brad Pitt at the motel for an edition of Vanity Fair.