Built in the mid-1940s from 20-year-old plans, the Mapes' art deco style was already becoming nostalgic. It opened as Nevada's tallest building in 1947, and its Sky Room overlooked a town that ...

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Harrah's was no more than a bingo parlor. Harold's Club was the best known of Reno casinos, but it had no ... McCarthy, the anti-Communist demagogue from Wisconsin, sat in the Sky Room in February ...