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

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

One of those in-between places was Charles and Gladys Mapes’ hotel-casino in Reno ... “Even as a little kid, you just looked around it and said, ‘Wow, this is pretty cool.” ...

If the bricks of the Mapes Hotel-Casino could talk, they would tell tales of people and politics, horror and Hollywood, and the stories of a cow town that grew into the Biggest Little City in the ...