In the mid-1990's the Four Queens became a partner in the renovation of the downtown area and the creation of the Fremont Street Experience. In 1972 the Four Queens was sold to the Elsinore Corporation and they would own the hotel until bankruptcy forced the sale of the hotel in 2003. I believe the GN has in-room safes, but 4 Queens does not. The final expansion would increase the casino floor by over 50% to 33,000 square feet. The GN is generally considered to be the class of the downtown hotels, but the 4 Queens gets good reviews as well. In 1976 the casino would go through an era of expansion eventually occupying the entire block bordered by Fremont Street, Casino Center, 3rd Street and Carson Avenue. The Four Queens, named for the four daughters of the builder Ben Goffstein, opened with 120 rooms and 20,000 sq ft of casino space.

The construction would take close to eighteen months and on June 2 of 1966, the same day the Surveyor 1spacecraft became the first American spacecraft to land on the moon, the Four Queens opened to great fanfare on Fremont Street in downtown Las Vegas. Construction on what would become the Four Queens Hotel & Casino began in late 1964.

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