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Historic hotel scheduled to blow
RENO, Nev. — The historic
Mapes Hotel, where Mae West
and the Marx Brothers once enter
tained gamblers along the banks
of the Truckee River, has a Super
Bowl Sunday date with the
wrecking ball.
Reno’s city council on Tuesday
approved the demolition of the
52-year-old downtown hotel casi
no for 8 a.m. on Jan. 30.
Preservationists tried for years
to save the 12-story brick build
ing, which was Nevada’s tallest
building when it opened along
the banks of the Truckee River on
Dec. 17,194*7. Its unique art deco
style earned it a listing on the Na
tional Register of Historic Places
in 1984.
During the Mapes’ heyday in
the 1950s and 1960s, entertainers
such as Sammy Davis Jr., Marilyn
Monroe and Frank Sinatra were
regular visitors. But since 1982,
the Mapes has sat boarded up and
vacant, much to the chagrin of
city officials who view the prop
erty as key to the city’s downtown
redevelopment.
Some business leaders wanted
to promote the implosion of the
Mapes as a tourist attraction on
the busy Super Bowl weekend.
The city council decided Tuesday
night to set up a public viewing
area but decided to bring it down
with minimal hoopla.
“There’s no need to make a
spectacle of it,” Councilman Bill
Newberg said.
Mayor Jeff Griffin said earlier
he opposed a big promotion be
cause he didn’t want to rub it in
the face of those who lost the bat
tle to save the hotel.
“I just want to make sure it’s a
public process with a safe place
set aside to watch,” Councilman
David Aiazzi said.
The Mapes was the first in the
nation to house a casino, hotel
and entertainment under one
roof. Its window-walled Skyroom
on the top floor featured some of
the biggest names in the entertain
ment world.
Officials for a San Francisco de
veloper, Nationwide Capital Ser
vices, made a late offer in Septem
ber to refurbish the Mapes. They
said they were willing to buy the
building, pay off the city’s $2.5
million debt to the former owner,
submit plans in four months and
begin construction in nine.
But council members said they
had waited too long and were
moving ahead with the demoli
tion.
The Associated Press
Babbitt pledges no changes for Steens
BURNS — Interior Secretary
Bruce Babbitt disarmed local
groups ready to fight him over fed
eral protection of Steens Moun
tain, pledging Wednesday there
would be no presidential decree
creating a national monument.
Babbitt met with Harney Coun
ty officials, leaders of the Paiute
Tribe and members of a citizen ad
visory board which had recom
mended against his proposal to
create new legislation to provide
environmental protection for the
mountain that dominates the high
desert of southeastern Oregon.
“I expected him to really deliv
er a mandate,” said Harney Coun
ty Judge Steve Grasty/the coun
ty’s top elected official. “I was
pleasantly surprised and opti
mistic that we will have a chance
to end up with something that
keeps the mountain as those of us
who know it appreciate it.”
Steens Mounfain, a 30-mile
long, 9,700-foot tall fault block of
basalt, is one of several areas in
the West that Babbitt has pro
posed as worthy of new protec
tions. The mountain is a mix of
private and public ownerships.
Environmentalists would like
to see the National Park Service
take over the publicly owned por
tions of Steens from the U.S. Bu
reau of Land Management to
manage them as wilderness and
buy out the grazing permits from
cattle ranchers to improve condi
tions for fish and wildlife.
Many local residents fear th at
designation as a national monu
ment would draw crowds of visi
tors that would interfere with their
enjoyment of outdoor activities.
Hamey County ranchers repre
sented by The Friends of Steens
Mountain would like manage
ment of the patchwork of private
and public lands to stay just the
way it is, with BLM continuing to
allow 30,000 cow and calf pairs to
graze on it each summer.
Babbitt praised the work of the
advisory group saying he had lit
tle disagreement with the bulk of
the recommendations it had made
for the future management of the
mountain.
Babbitt added that he thought
grazing should continue on the
mountain, and pledged that there
would be no surprises, such as us
ing the Antiquities Act to desig
nate a national monument with
out going through Congress.
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