Perusing Jack Harpster’s “The Genesis of Reno” continues to bring back memories of my time at the Riverside. Although I spent only eighteen months handling the hotel account, there were many interesting events that occurred during that time. As mentioned in a previous column, my first interaction with the hotel occurred when Frank Johnson of the Nevada State Journal and I … [Read more...]
Riverside Reverie
While perusing my copy of local author Jack Harpster’s most recent work entitled “The Genesis of Reno” the story of the Riverside Hotel and the Virginia Street Bridge, a flood of memories came back to me. As I mentioned in a previous column, my first physical encounter in the hotel occurred when I interviewed Dennis Day. At the time, I was co-editor of the Nevada Register, a … [Read more...]