3 days ago · RENO, Nev. (News 4 & Fox 11) — Thursday marks 25 years since the downtown skyline changed forever when the iconic Mapes Hotel in Reno was imploded, a significant event in the city's history. The ...

6 days ago · This article, written by then-investigative reporter Frank X. 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 lore: Harry Spencer in 2022, Sen. Bill Raggio ...

In light of all the evidence, and in the face of much local protest, the City of Reno contracted for the demolition of the Mapes on Super Bowl Sunday, January 30, 2000. [1] Nothing was done with the Mapes lot until the winter of 2001, when an winter ice rink was put in at the site.

Jan 30, 2015 · Fifty-two years of Reno history were erased in a few seconds early Sunday as the famed Mapes Hotel came crashing to the ground in a cloud of dust. More than a dozen blasts from 75 pounds of...

Feb 20, 2015 · The Mapes Hotel, on Virginia and First streets, is imploded in 2000. The hotel’s demolition came 18 years after it was closed. In 2005: The ice rink at the Mapes Plaza takes shape on the land...

4 days ago · From the day the Mapes Hotel-Casino closed in 1982 until the day of its implosion on Jan. 30, 2000, ... Three years after the Mapes demolition on Jan. 30, 2000, Reno officials still had no idea ...

Aug 4, 2016 · The “Believe”-adorned plaza in downtown Reno, where once stood the Mapes Hotel in all its glory and demise, or “The Queen of Virginia Street” as Hagen Sandoval calls it, is empty on a recent Sunday morning.

Jan 31, 2000 · Thousands gathered downtown as dynamite leveled the 12-story Mapes Hotel. The demolition, challenged in lawsuits all the way to the Nevada Supreme Court, occurred …

Dec 19, 2001 · The Mapes Hotel stood its ground for many seconds, its windows rattling furiously in the final moments for the art deco high-rise that launched the modern age of hotel-casinos.

Jan 31, 2000 · RENO -- In the end, nothing -- not petitions, protests, lawsuits nor even Lady Luck herself -- could save the historic Mapes Hotel. On Sunday morning, 75 pounds of explosives tucked into the...