$5. Mapes Casino Chip - 1948 - Reno, Nevada - Brown

Type: Land Based
 

Opened: 1947, Closed: 1982

The Mapes Hotel was a Hotel/ Casino located

in Reno, Nevada, next to the Truckee River on

Virginia Street.

It was built in 1947, and opened on December

17 of that year.

It was the first skyscraper built in the Western

United States

since the start of World War two. The hotel

was a unique high-rise built to combine a hotel

and casino,

providing the prototype for modern

hotel/casinos.

The hotel quickly became, for most of the

1950s and 1960s,

the premier hotel in Reno.