The Mint Las Vegas
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The Mint Las Vegas was a hotel and casino in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Location | Las Vegas, Nevada, United States |
Address | 100 Fremont Street |
Opening date | July 12, 1957[1] |
Closing date | July 1, 1988; 35 years ago (1988-07-01)[2] |
No. of rooms | 300 |
Casino type | Land-based |
Owner | Del Webb |
Architect | Zick & Sharp (casino), Yesco (neon sign), Martin Stern (hotel tower) |
Renovated in | 1965 |
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The Mint was the sponsor of the Mint 400, the largest off-road race from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s.
The Mint was made famous (or infamous) as the first night's stay in Hunter S. Thompson and Oscar Acosta's legendary 1971 weekend trip to Las Vegas, immortalized in Thompson's novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.