Built in the mid-1940s from 20-year-old plans, the Mapes' art deco style was already becoming nostalgic. It opened as ...

Mullen, originally appeared in the Reno Gazette-Journal on Jan. 30, 2000, the date of the Mapes Hotel-Casino's implosion. Since its publication, Nevada lost three of its great keepers of local ...

Veteran casino executive Ferenc Szony, whose dad used to perform at the Mapes, remembers his time at the hotel as a kid and ...

An old black-and-white photograph of downtown Reno from 1954 shows a sign with two cowboys standing side by side, their billowing chaps forming the “M” in Mapes Casino. Just below the sign ...