This was a while before my time, but I'm surprised how little it had changed from this was filmed until I grew up there in the 70s and 80s. Reno was so unique in that it really didn't matter what you enjoyed, you could find it there. Seeing this kind of thing makes me so homesick, but sadly Reno isn't at all near to what's described in this film or from my memory. I wonder if there are any places like that anymore in the US. Really breaks my heart to see what Reno has become in the last 20 years.
I knew every junk car up Keystone Canyon, Drank my first beer at Smokie and Dees, Bought cigarettes from the vending machines, cruised Virginia on the weekends and learned to ski thanks to the city.
Reno looked so clean at this time with new neighborhoods and classic 50s houses. I started going to Reno-Tahoe in the mid 80s and, you're right, that time was so much better from looser slot machines to a busy, festive environment. It's a shell of what it was back then and after the Great Recession it was a literal ghost town in downtown Reno where the casinos are. And when Harrah's closed a couple years ago that was pretty much the end of an era with so many great memories of a happening little city in its prime. You're better off nowadays staying at the GSR, Atlantis or the Peppermill for a nicer experience. Tahoe will always have a special place in my heart and it really hasn't changed that much except the casinos aren't nearly as busy as they used to be in the 80s and 90s - but the beautiful lake never changes. 😍🏔
I agree. I moved here in 1980, and I knew even at the time how special downtown really was. The vibrancy, the charm, and even some of the closed up buildings had a quaintness that's difficult to put into words. The old slot machines in the Nevada Club; the gun collection at Harolds; the open air curtain at Harrahs, the burgers at Kiah's Squeeze Inn, or, if you preferred, the Awful Awful at the Nugget. The girls ontop the PrimaDonna. A short away, a Woolworths. Anyone remember Lincoln Alley? What happened to all this? Downtown is a tomb now.
I currently live in a vintage 1956 house and seeing the new 1950s neighborhoods was so cool. I think, overall, the 50s would've been the best decade to live in - with a strong middle class and a time of innocence. Great video and the music was phenomenal as well!👏👍
If by ‘innocence’ you mean segregation by race and exclusion of Indians after dark, maybe. The moniker ‘Mississippi of the West’ was no accident. It is a mixed bag. At the same time, Governor Grant Sawyer (1959-1967) guided passage of one of our nations first open housing laws. Additionally Mr. Probasco did not include race covenants in the property deeds for his Greenbrae and Elmcrest subdivisions of the late 1940s & 50s.
@@dabfan6924 - Here's a little "present day reality" for you, LOL, you're probably in some other country and your sole purpose on this video, is to instigate problems. Most that do research, which you're not one, would know that most western states, were not segregated. In 1954, for example, Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware had some form of segregation occurring, however, Nevada is not included in this list. So, if your "deductive reasoning" is functioning, the census numbers and the fact that Nevada was not involved in segregation in the 1950's, should debunk your odd claims.
When I was a kid, we would visit my family in the Reno area. There used to be a basque and Portuguese community there of dairy farmers and sheep herders. My uncle had a dairy outside of town. I miss the old Reno
I remember coming out of John Ascuagas Nugget in Sparks on the 4th of July in 1986, and Bad Company was playing a freebie- unannounced concert in the middle of Sparks blvd, and all drinks and food were free. Good times... Takes a while, but I was a locksmith in Reno, and it took about a year to be accepted, but once your in- paradise!!!
Wonderful video! I was born in Reno and remember these sights well. I just wish there was more footage of the downtown area and the beautiful Truckee River as it ran through the town. Thank you so much for sharing this!!
Shame... Washoe valley got wiped out in 1990 by a lakeside collapse that gave way from the side of Tahoe. My brother was working for Sears and they were having a company picnic when it happened and was killed. You can still see remnants of buildings such as chimneys, etc... when traveling through Washoe valley between Reno and Carson City
Right next door to the old Riverside Parking Garage, not Riverside Hotel. Someone could take me there blindfolded,to Tony's, and I would know exactly where I was. What I would give for one of his "Poor Boy Sandwiches"!
Definitely Kiah's original Squeeze In. "In", because there were only 9 stools at a counter and you had to flatten yourself against the wall to squeeze by any patrons already sitting on them. If a small group came in, they were seated on "the mezzanine" at the bar next door to be served.
I remember waiting for the first snowfall, me and my bro (he had an '85 f250 4x4- 35" tires, lift, 460 w/ 4 speed) would grab a 12 pack and drive up and down I-80 and charge $45 to pull people out of the drifts. Pocket full of cash and soo busy we still had a 6 pack left at the end!
Yes where McCarran blvd crosses south Virginia Street today, I remember the Hash Lane sign at the corner. Hash Lane was a pretty country lane with white rail fences along it in the old days.
Great memories! Now Reno has been sold out by our county and city commissioners who are handing out building permits like candy at Halloween. Uncontrolled growth, Californication, more crime, overcrowded schools, heavy traffic and the worse drivers ever.
What a whitewash. Literally. I see a 1956 Plymouth at Cave Rock. Bill Fong opened the New China Club at 260 Lake Street in 1952, the first casino open to non-whites. The Harlem Club, a mixed race nightclub, opened on Douglas Alley in 1937. This is Reno as Mississippi. It covers up the multi-ethnic history of Nevada in order to market Reno as a tourist destination for rich 1950s white people. Reno was not a racist town but it was rigidly segregated. Don’t mistake make-believe for reality. Besides, you can’t see the road to Carson City from that Mapes Skyroom table. That’s the Mt. Rose Highway!! Effing Hollywood 🤷♀
What’s the difference you are making? In his bio, Harold Smith talks about a bar in downtown that was for Indians only. And fierce about it. Their idea. Do you know what that was, or where it was?
@@HooDatDonDar excellent question. IDK, I have never read Harold “Pappy” Smith’s book “I want to quit winners” & don’t know his intent in that comment. However, I have seen Nevada Historical Society pictures of Indians gambling on blankets by the train tracks - presumably east of the “Red Line” and thus segregated. Maybe the point Smith was making was self-serving: that is, if Indians “want” segregation in drinking, they must “also want” segregation in gambling, thus justifying the existing racial exclusion by the casinos. What do you think? Was it a white-owned bar nearby - but off -the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony [on E. Second east of Kietzke]? Was it a white-owned business on the reservation, such as existed at Sutcliffe (which is not in town)?Considering the historical context - things like “gifts” of smallpox-tainted blankets - it looks like exploitation to me rather than representing jovial self-segregation. But IDK. Harold’s Club was the first casino to offer good casino jobs to women. He wanted women to feel comfortable in casinos and introduced glass fronts and good lighting. Before him gambling clubs were dark smoky speakeasies. He was an historical figure, and I am not condemning him. My only point had to do with whitewashing by the film maker, painting a picture of Jim Crow as a technicolor nirvana. The Nevada & Reno Historical Societies are a great resource, and the Reno society has a website which documents (among other things) the multi-racial history of Reno, including a lot about Black Springs [north of Lemmon Drive on N Virginia St. The Tribes have a library at the Colony on E 2nd [by the pedestrian overpass]. Reno and Nevada get both demerits and credits for desegregation. It’s not simple, but the WCSD schools I attended were all segregated, de facto & de jure.
9:41 that’s bad ass. It was even the lifeguard who did the dive. Do that now..!!! and the lifeguard will blow a whistle at you, tell you to get out of the pool, call security to escort you out, then security calls the cops to have you trespassed…1900-2000. Greatest town in the world… 2023…. LEAVE RENO AND YOULL BE WAY MORE HAPPY…Then 5,000 people in Carson. Now 93,595 people…. Reno then 50,000 now 531,000
9:55 WOW…..They all stoped and started to clap..!!!! 😂😂😂😂. Right now.. everyone would’ve been yelling at him and filming the altercation, wile Karen is calling the cops, because he ALMOST hit her son when dived in. And now he’s terrified to get back into the pool…😂😂😂😂
![Reno, Nevada 1950s in color [60fps,Remastered] w/sound design added](/img/n.gif)
This was a while before my time, but I'm surprised how little it had changed from this was filmed until I grew up there in the 70s and 80s. Reno was so unique in that it really didn't matter what you enjoyed, you could find it there. Seeing this kind of thing makes me so homesick, but sadly Reno isn't at all near to what's described in this film or from my memory. I wonder if there are any places like that anymore in the US. Really breaks my heart to see what Reno has become in the last 20 years.
Things change or they get worse
Signed, a guy from a small town in the Midwest who moved to Reno because there was nothing left in my hometown
@@setco6536 If you weren't already there, then I wish you could have seen in it in the 80s and 90s. It used to be so much better than it has become.
I knew every junk car up Keystone Canyon, Drank my first beer at Smokie and Dees, Bought cigarettes from the vending machines, cruised Virginia on the weekends and learned to ski thanks to the city.
Reno looked so clean at this time with new neighborhoods and classic 50s houses. I started going to Reno-Tahoe in the mid 80s and, you're right, that time was so much better from looser slot machines to a busy, festive environment. It's a shell of what it was back then and after the Great Recession it was a literal ghost town in downtown Reno where the casinos are. And when Harrah's closed a couple years ago that was pretty much the end of an era with so many great memories of a happening little city in its prime. You're better off nowadays staying at the GSR, Atlantis or the Peppermill for a nicer experience. Tahoe will always have a special place in my heart and it really hasn't changed that much except the casinos aren't nearly as busy as they used to be in the 80s and 90s - but the beautiful lake never changes. 😍🏔
I agree.
I moved here in 1980, and I knew even at the time how special downtown really was. The vibrancy, the charm, and even some of the closed up buildings had a quaintness that's difficult to put into words.
The old slot machines in the Nevada Club; the gun collection at Harolds; the open air curtain at Harrahs, the burgers at Kiah's Squeeze Inn, or, if you preferred, the Awful Awful at the Nugget. The girls ontop the PrimaDonna. A short away, a Woolworths. Anyone remember Lincoln Alley?
What happened to all this? Downtown is a tomb now.
I currently live in a vintage 1956 house and seeing the new 1950s neighborhoods was so cool. I think, overall, the 50s would've been the best decade to live in - with a strong middle class and a time of innocence. Great video and the music was phenomenal as well!👏👍
If by ‘innocence’ you mean segregation by race and exclusion of Indians after dark, maybe. The moniker ‘Mississippi of the West’ was no accident. It is a mixed bag.
At the same time, Governor Grant Sawyer (1959-1967) guided passage of one of our nations first open housing laws. Additionally Mr. Probasco did not include race covenants in the property deeds for his Greenbrae and Elmcrest subdivisions of the late 1940s & 50s.
@@dabfan6924 - Here's a little "present day reality" for you, LOL, you're probably in some other country and your sole purpose on this video, is to instigate problems. Most that do research, which you're not one, would know that most western states, were not segregated. In 1954, for example, Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware had some form of segregation occurring, however, Nevada is not included in this list. So, if your "deductive reasoning" is functioning, the census numbers and the fact that Nevada was not involved in segregation in the 1950's, should debunk your odd claims.
When I was a kid, we would visit my family in the Reno area. There used to be a basque and Portuguese community there of dairy farmers and sheep herders. My uncle had a dairy outside of town. I miss the old Reno
Wow, what memories. I remember the 50s so well in Reno. Graduated from RHS in 58.
Hi Norman, My Mom remembers you! Layne Stephens.
@@AA-ve9sy I remember Layne well, think she knows my wife also. Sandra Ramsey played a lot of tennis in Reno. Tell Layne hello.
I was born at St. Mary’s in '58.
Enjoyed seeing the hometown of my mom.
I remember coming out of John Ascuagas Nugget in Sparks on the 4th of July in 1986, and Bad Company was playing a freebie- unannounced concert in the middle of Sparks blvd, and all drinks and food were free. Good times... Takes a while, but I was a locksmith in Reno, and it took about a year to be accepted, but once your in- paradise!!!
Wonderful video! I was born in Reno and remember these sights well. I just wish there was more footage of the downtown area and the beautiful Truckee River as it ran through the town. Thank you so much for sharing this!!
I was under the impression that before it was named Reno by the railroad, that is was called Lake's Crossing.
The United States library of Congress never mentioned Lake.... it’s always Fullers
In the short time that Myron Lake owned the land it was referred as Lakes Crossing but was never officially recognised.
My Mom and dad were married in Reno in 1955
My parents were married in Reno too, but later in the early 60's.
Shame... Washoe valley got wiped out in 1990 by a lakeside collapse that gave way from the side of Tahoe. My brother was working for Sears and they were having a company picnic when it happened and was killed. You can still see remnants of buildings such as chimneys, etc... when traveling through Washoe valley between Reno and Carson City
I miss my hometown! Anybody remember Kai's Squeeze Inn or Tony's Delicatessen?
I remember Kai’s very well. Best burgers you ever tasted. Don’t remember Tony’s, though. Where was it?
Right next door to the old Riverside Parking Garage, not Riverside Hotel. Someone could take me there blindfolded,to Tony's, and I would know exactly where I was. What I would give for one of his "Poor Boy Sandwiches"!
Definitely Kiah's original Squeeze In. "In", because there were only 9 stools at a counter and you had to flatten yourself against the wall to squeeze by any patrons already sitting on them. If a small group came in, they were seated on "the mezzanine" at the bar next door to be served.
Excellent food, You literally had to "squeeze past" others to get to your seat, it was so narrow. A sign on the wall " BRAINS and eggs".
@@sakibear4478 and a pickle from that strange barrel
Sadly Reno is now California East. No character left here.
Wonderful!!!
Home.
Wow look at that old beautiful wooden boat
My good friend George Garson and family were fond memories. Miss bowling on thurs nights for Boomtown, and shooting prarie dogs on the property.
Too bad they blew up the Mapes in 2000.
So sad my mom and dad had there wedding dinner there in 1955
The building could not be occupied. The floors were sagging, and it could not be sprinklered. Implosion was always its future.
Thank you!! I really enjoyed this!!
why the TCR counter?
im only here for school
Same
Virginia city is my hometown 💕
Is it really hot in the way people say
I meant haunted
I remember waiting for the first snowfall, me and my bro (he had an '85 f250 4x4- 35" tires, lift, 460 w/ 4 speed) would grab a 12 pack and drive up and down I-80 and charge $45 to pull people out of the drifts. Pocket full of cash and soo busy we still had a 6 pack left at the end!
BTW- If Cattleman's restaurant is still in Washoe valley you MUST stop and eat the best steaks you will ever have in your life!
Out of business
Carson city had 5 thousand people back then?! Omg today it's 54k,
It's still the same to this day.
Exciter ehh not really it’s the 21st century and it’s brighter and better but there’s is classic
Does anyone remember where Hash Lane intersected Virginia St?
Yes where McCarran blvd crosses south Virginia Street today, I remember the Hash Lane sign at the corner. Hash Lane was a pretty country lane with white rail fences along it in the old days.
@@tracygallaway36 Correctamundo!
Great memories! Now Reno has been sold out by our county and city commissioners who are handing out building permits like candy at Halloween.
Uncontrolled growth, Californication, more crime, overcrowded schools, heavy traffic and the worse drivers ever.
What a whitewash. Literally. I see a 1956 Plymouth at Cave Rock. Bill Fong opened the New China Club at 260 Lake Street in 1952, the first casino open to non-whites. The Harlem Club, a mixed race nightclub, opened on Douglas Alley in 1937. This is Reno as Mississippi.
It covers up the multi-ethnic history of Nevada in order to market Reno as a tourist destination for rich 1950s white people. Reno was not a racist town but it was rigidly segregated. Don’t mistake make-believe for reality.
Besides, you can’t see the road to Carson City from that Mapes Skyroom table. That’s the Mt. Rose Highway!! Effing Hollywood 🤷♀
What’s the difference you are making?
In his bio, Harold Smith talks about a bar in downtown that was for Indians only. And fierce about it. Their idea.
Do you know what that was, or where it was?
@@HooDatDonDar excellent question. IDK, I have never read Harold “Pappy” Smith’s book “I want to quit winners” & don’t know his intent in that comment. However, I have seen Nevada Historical Society pictures of Indians gambling on blankets by the train tracks - presumably east of the “Red Line” and thus segregated.
Maybe the point Smith was making was self-serving: that is, if Indians “want” segregation in drinking, they must “also want” segregation in gambling, thus justifying the existing racial exclusion by the casinos. What do you think?
Was it a white-owned bar nearby - but off -the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony [on E. Second east of Kietzke]? Was it a white-owned business on the reservation, such as existed at Sutcliffe (which is not in town)?Considering the historical context - things like “gifts” of smallpox-tainted blankets - it looks like exploitation to me rather than representing jovial self-segregation. But IDK.
Harold’s Club was the first casino to offer good casino jobs to women. He wanted women to feel comfortable in casinos and introduced glass fronts and good lighting. Before him gambling clubs were dark smoky speakeasies. He was an historical figure, and I am not condemning him. My only point had to do with whitewashing by the film maker, painting a picture of Jim Crow as a technicolor nirvana.
The Nevada & Reno Historical Societies are a great resource, and the Reno society has a website which documents (among other things) the multi-racial history of Reno, including a lot about Black Springs [north of Lemmon Drive on N Virginia St. The Tribes have a library at the Colony on E 2nd [by the pedestrian overpass]. Reno and Nevada get both demerits and credits for desegregation. It’s not simple, but the WCSD schools I attended were all segregated, de facto & de jure.
9:41 that’s bad ass. It was even the lifeguard who did the dive.
Do that now..!!! and the lifeguard will blow a whistle at you, tell you to get out of the pool, call security to escort you out, then security calls the cops to have you trespassed…1900-2000. Greatest town in the world… 2023…. LEAVE RENO AND YOULL BE WAY MORE HAPPY…Then 5,000 people in Carson. Now 93,595 people…. Reno then 50,000 now 531,000
9:55 WOW…..They all stoped and started to clap..!!!! 😂😂😂😂.
Right now.. everyone would’ve been yelling at him and filming the altercation, wile Karen is calling the cops, because he ALMOST hit her son when dived in. And now he’s terrified to get back into the pool…😂😂😂😂