Overview
Horseshoe Las Vegas stands mid-Strip in the high-rise that opened in 1973 as the original MGM Grand — scene, on 21 November 1980, of the fire that remains among the deadliest hotel disasters in American history: 85 people died and hundreds were injured as smoke swept the towers, a catastrophe that rewrote the nation's fire codes. Rebuilt and reopened, the resort became Bally's for four decades and was renamed Horseshoe in the 2020s, hosting the World Series of Poker; the building's later history is ordinary Strip evolution, but its ground is not ordinary, and this record leads with the disaster and its dead, told plainly and with respect. The lore is correspondingly quiet: over the years guests and staff have occasionally described unease on certain floors, figures glimpsed, and small unexplained disturbances that telling ties to 1980 — accounts kept deliberately brief here, as the real event dwarfs any story. Present the site as history first; the resort operates normally, with details from official pages.