The Mint Las Vegas

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The Mint
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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; 36 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

The Mint Las Vegas was a hotel and casino in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada.

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.