1950-60s Era Reno Nevada Overland Hotel & Casino ashtray-On Lincoln Highway too!

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Check it out...Here's a classic VINTAGE ashtray from a legendary 1950-60s Era hotel / casino in Reno, Nevada that was one of the very first of its kind in the area serving cowboys on horseback when it first opened before World War I-The 4 1/4" wide by 4 1/4" tall by 1 1/4" deep welled / tiered edged heavy red & white lettered blue glass ashtray reads: "Overland Hotel casino Reno, Nevada" on the front -The ashtray is in good condition with only light wear consistent with age & normal use including a couple small chips on the inner edge at 11:00 and 1:00, but still a great old historic item ready for display! This is an ORIGINAL item, NOT A REPRODUCTION item! Postage information is listed at the bottom-Calculated shipping is required.
1950-60s Era Reno Nevada Overland Hotel & Casino ashtray-On Lincoln Highway too!
1950-60s Era Reno Nevada Overland Hotel & Casino ashtray-On Lincoln Highway too!
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Check it out...Here's a classic VINTAGE ashtray from a legendary 1950-60s Era hotel / casino in Reno, Nevada that was one of the very first of its kind in the area serving cowboys on horseback when it first opened before World War I-The 4 1/4" wide by 4 1/4" tall by 1 1/4" deep welled / tiered edged heavy red & white lettered blue glass ashtray reads: "Overland Hotel casino Reno, Nevada" on the front -The ashtray is in good condition with only light wear consistent with age & normal use including a couple small chips on the inner edge at 11:00 and 1:00, but still a great old historic item ready for display!
Here's some history on the hotel casino:
The historic Overland Hotel was built in 1908 by Dan Griffith, a local pioneer. George Sherman, a popular politician and civic leader, was the establishments’ second owner, and is credited with putting the hotel "on the map." Sherman served as Fallon's Mayor from 1911 to 1915, followed by a term as state assemblyman. During his tenure as owner, Sherman played an integral part in originating Fallon’s electric company as well as Churchill County's telephone system (CC Communications). Located on America’s First Transcontinental Highway, the Lincoln Highway, the Overland became the destination of all walks of life: from ditch diggers and local ranchers, to politicians, civic leaders and weary travelers. In addition, the Newlands Reclamation Project, the first federal irrigation project in the US, was underway. Also known as "Uncle Sam’s Nine Million Dollar Farm," the project brought prosperity and population to the Lahontan Valley, making the Overland a popular stopping place. The hotel was recognized as Fallon’s finest.
The Overland Casino in Reno, Nevada opened in 1916 at the corner of Center Street and Commercial Row. When the Dromiack family finished building, the hotel had 122 rooms, some available for just 75-cents per day. Prohibition hadn't hit yet, so you could get fine whiskey at the bar for 20-cents and 5-cent cigar smoke filled the bar's ceiling. Poker players sat at tables playing five-card stud and draw poker. It was still the Old West, and Wyatt Earp and his brother had been Sheriff and Marshall in the town of Goldfield just 10 years earlier. Reno had less than 8,000 local residents, most of whom were farmers and ranchers. The downtown area of the little city, from the Truckee River to the railroad tracks (about a half-mile walk), was filled with retail stores, bars, tack shops, and leather works. It wasn't a gambling town yet, George Wingfield was new in town and buying real estate, but his partners hadn't come to town to open new saloons with gaming just yet. The cigar store in the corner of the Overland offered cowboys and ranchers another place to spend a little leisure time. They wandered in occasionally, wearing holsters and pistols, and bought tobacco for hand-rolling. Their days were numbered in Reno as the town fathers looked for a way to bring in more money, and a loosening of divorce laws and turning a blind eye to gambling was an easy fix.In the 1920's the Reno Mob (George Winfield, Jim McKay, Bill Graham, Nick Abelman) offered travelers plenty of places to gamble like the Harmarket Club, the Rex, the Bank Club, and the Willows (out on Old Verdi Road). As noted in Mob City: Reno, the group also offered stock swindles, money laundering, and safe-haven for Chicago and Minnesota crooks like "Baby Face" Nelson and Ma Barker's Boys and Alvin Karpis. The Overland had a few slot machines and poker for many years before open gambling was legalized in 1931, but only W.D. McKnight held an official gaming license before Pick Hobson purchased the building from the Dromiack's in 1959. At the time, Reno was still as popular as Las Vegas, and Harold's Club was still one of the top earning casinos in the world. Harold's Club didn't have a hotel, so the Overland, although much smaller, did have some advantages. The rooms in the hotel were refurbished, and air conditioning was added, so the rooms stayed full during the summer, and Hobson opened-up the downstairs lobby to make room for 240 slot machines, a dozen table games including craps, roulette and 21, and Keno, which had a ,000 limit. Over the years the Overland Hotel casino saw plenty of action. It drew poker players from across the country, as did side games at Harold's Club and the Horseshoe on South Virginia Street, but only the Overland can say it had a pumpkin thrown onto the roof from the street. At one point after an all-night poker game, legendary hustler Titanic Thompson (Alvin Clarence Thomas) wandered into the cool-morning outside the Overland with a few other players and remarked that the hotel was only a few stories high; so small that he thought he could throw a pumpkin onto the roof. His fellow players were happy to bet against such a feat, but were sorely disappointed when Thompson pulled a baseball-size pumpkin from his jacket pocket and proceeded to toss the squash right onto the roof. They sneered, they paid up, and he bought breakfast. As the 1970's dawned in Reno, smaller clubs fought for every gaming dollar. Pick Hobson raised the limit on his Keno game to ,000 to compete, and finished the painting of the entire outside of the hotel to a bright white. According to casino historian Phil Jensen, who dealt dice at the club back in the day, he and other dealers teased Pick unmercifully about the color. In 1973, Hobson bought the Cosmo Club next door. He already owned the Topaz Lodge at Topaz Lake and the Gold Cub in Sparks, Nevada. In 1977, after Bill Harrah finished building the Center Street addition to Harrah's Reno casino, he leased the Overland and shut the property down overnight. Later that year, Harrah purchased the Riverside Hotel from Jessie Beck and traded it to Pick Hobson for the Overland Hotel and property.Harrah's parking garage now stands where the Overland Hotel and casino once sat proudly for 61-years. Pick Hobson ran the Riverside Hotel for ten years before it too was shut down during a down-turn in Reno gambling in 1986.
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