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Jack Hursh, Jr. – Program Chair: 747-4478
All HRPS program events are on the 4th Wednesday of the month at 7:00 PM at the Mt. Rose School (915 Lander Street between Taylor and LaRue, just off Arlington Avenue) unless otherwise noted.
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012 |
Center Street Heyday
Legal gambling was new in Reno in the early 1930s. The hub of activity was Center Street in an era when east coast divorcees arrived on the train, were met by their Reno lawyer and spent the long desert nights gambling and drinking in the finest of formal attire. Enter the "square deal" Bank Club owned by Reno's most famous sportsmen, William John Graham and Jimmy McKay. Reno was truly "Wide Open," wild and wicked. Presented by Dr. Michael Fischer. |
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012 |
Early Reno in Pictures, 1868-1920
HRPS FootPrints Editor and Nevada Historical Society docent Carol Coleman uses images from her Early Reno book to describe Reno as a tough railroad town in 1868, through the boom and bust years of the Comstock and later the Tonopah/Goldfield era, then to become the state’s financial and industrial center by the early 1920s. |
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012 |
Reno History and the "Heydays" of Moana Hot Springs
Native Nevadan Bill Berrum will reminisce about the growth of Reno from the Moana Lane and family perspective from the early 1900s up to the 1950s. He is uniquely qualified to inform us on this subject as he and his father, Louis W. Berrum, grew up and worked in the three swimming pools that have occupied the same location for more than 100 years. |
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