Was Las Vegas Landmark Hotel (now demolished) supposed to be a replica of Seattles Space Needle?
Yes it was modeled after the space needle in Seattle. It was 15 stories tall, which was the tallest building at that time, and then they increased it to 31 stories. It took 8 years to fully construct the hotel due to lack of money and the property changing hands. On July 15, 1977, Carbon monoxide gas leaked into the hotel’s air conditioning system killing 1 guest and injuring 138 others. This was followed by a power failure and flooding in the basement. Even though the hotel failed to bring in much profit, it made enough to remain open throughout the 1980s, but with the opening of the city’s first mega-resort, The Mirage, in 1989, The Landmark’s fate was sealed. Without the money necessary to renovate the rooms and certainly not enough to pay back the creditors, The Landmark closed her doors in August of 1990. The hotel sat empty for 3 years until, in 1993, The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (which owns the Las Vegas Convention Center across the street) bought the Landmark
