Monday, February 10, 2014

Searching the Mountains for Casinos


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When I USED TO BE about 10-years old I hit my first slot jackpot, courtesy of my father. I had 45-cents in nickles saved from my allowance, and my dad dutifully took them from me and went with my mother and played the nickle slots on the Owl Club in Battle Mountain, Nevada one night once we were on vacation (to the nice Salt Lake, honest). At some point, a jackpot was hit for 150 coins (that's $7.50 for anyone who spent the last 30 hours watching non-stop Olympics coverage) and that i got the nickles! I also got a nifty ashtray commemorating the development and my life drifted toward thinking gambling was easy, which it is, but just like the quote from the actor's deathbed, "Dying is easy, comedy is hard," remember the fact that "Gambling is easy, winning is hard," so that you should enjoy it in any respect times!

I'll always have a spot in my heart for tiny casinos just like the Owl Club, with a couple of dozen slot machines and never much more, or the Red Coach in Silver Springs with a single blackjack table where the landlord would drive in from home sometimes if she was of a mind when the restaurant cashier called her and said "THERE IS A fellow here, want's to play some blackjack." If you've never been to Silver Springs, that's fine. You'll skip the trip to Gerlach to look Bruno's Country Club and to Fallon to peer the Bird Farm (but they do have good pastrami sandwiches) in Northern Nevada too, but you could include Virginia City, that is now a revived ghost town, just like the casino spots of the high mountains of Colorado.

Virginia City is ready a half-hour from Reno, and it's well worth the drive (in case you aren't liable to car sickness) up the mountain, since the town looks just like it did 100-years ago with wooden sidewalks and a steam-engine train that takes just a little trip to nearby Gold Hill. Yes, that Gold Hill, where I once did a spectacular speech on baseball within the Comstock to a crowd estimated at nearly 10 people, but I digress.

If you are making it to Virginia City, you'll discover all of the new tourist-trap things, and a few half-dozen cool saloons that experience great old photos, exhibits, the occasional blackjack table, and a number of other slot machines. You could not get rich, but it is a good afternoon spot, especially on a hot afternoon while you desire a cooler temperature and a break from the massive city. Take the youngsters and it is a family thing. Go together with adults and you'll gamble and drink and relax just like the old days. Enjoy.


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