The Mapes Hotel in Reno had a lot of history associated with it. It was the first high-rise hotel built in the U.S. after World War II when it was finished in 1947 and was considered the prototype for hotels that had casinos in the same building. It was the major hotel in Reno in its day, attracting entertainers such as Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Sammy Davis Jr., Judy Garland, the Marx Brothers and many more. The hotel went into foreclosure in 1982 when Charles Mapes Jr. was unable to repay a $15 million loan he had taken out on his namesake hotel and the Money Tree, and it was eventually sold to the Reno Development Agency in 1996. It was imploded by the city of Reno on Super Bowl Sunday 2000, the only casino implosion I've seen in person.

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