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The situation became worse as gaming spread all over the West Coast and the number of tourists visiting Reno continually decreased. The sale of the Kings Inn reminded me of the casinos that have closed since I started to work in Reno. Each year he worked hard just to stay on the treadmill; he always hoped things would magically get better. Anjeanette Damon, Las Vegas Sun, In , the property added a dozen table games as well as more than slot machines. In June , amid disputes among its owners, the property entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization.{/INSERTKEYS}{/PARAGRAPH} {PARAGRAPH}{INSERTKEYS}Forty years ago, Reno was in the midst of a casino boom. Since , the building has been empty, decaying and considered a blight in downtown Reno, it was only open 7 years. All of the other closed casinos have been torn down or repurposed. The casino closed in the aftermath of the flood, but it did not close because of the flood. And it reminded me of the optimism everyone felt in Reno and in the casino industry. Reno is moving on and it needs something different to inhabit that empty lot of the Kings Inn, something that brings a new hope. Winters are tough in Reno, storms close the highways and Californians would rather stay home or ski. Of course, the lawyer was right, but he had never thought of it. Maybe now it will. Now he realized they never would, so my friend and his partners decided to close the casino. What is going to make things better and break that cycle? Only the Kings Inn has found no other purpose. The decline in tourists and increased competition between casinos forced many casinos to close their doors during the s and 90s. Sadly, there were not enough local customers or tourists for all of those new casinos. It was never enough. In , in the wake of a devastating flood that had closed the casino for a week, he was talking to his lawyer and explaining the process of borrowing for the winter. That would be old news, except for the sale of the Kings Inn. It reminded me of the high hopes we had in when we opened the Comstock. The coming winter would be more difficult because the revenue lost due to the flood would put them very far behind schedule. A friend of mine tells the story of learning to see the trend in personal terms. When the Kings Inn closed, gaming in Reno was already in the process of changing dramatically, but the trends were hard to see day to day. For me, the Kings Ins is a symbol of all the broken dreams of its era. Each year the casino he, and a small group of his friends owned, borrowed money in the fall to see it through the winter. The Kings Inn, the long-abandoned hotel-casino that has come to symbolize downtown Reno blight, has been sold to a Las Vegas developer.