Looking west from William Street at the Dutch Mill restaurant, corner of William and Carson streets in the 1950s or '60s.
Saturday
150 Years Ago
Prize fight: Two young men of Virginia City named Wm. Harris and Wm. Lynn have agreed to contest their skill and endurance in the prize ring. They are well matched in weight. Harris is a Cornishman. Lynn an Irishman. (Gold Hill News)
140 Years Ago
Local notes: The report that the macaroni crop on our ranch has failed was an agricultural slander started by John Bath.
130 Years Ago
No digging done: People digging for Henry’s buried gold are all pure fabrications. Prof. Krall, who occupies the premises, says that no digging has been done on the premises by anybody. The barn is kept locked, and Prof. Krall carries the key. He says the yarns are pure fakes.
70 Years Ago
Movie to be filmed here: Director Henry Koster plans to have forthcoming movie in Carson City and Reno. The movie will be made in mid-June from the bestseller, “Good Morning, Miss Dove” starring Jennifer Jones.
60 Years Ago
Saturn 1 set to fire: The Saturn 1 super-rocket will be launching to continue a flurry of space activity that began with the successful Project Fire Mission. Florida missile watchers may see a spectacle as Saturn 1, the world’s most powerful rocket, pushes the Pegasus 2 Meteoroid-Detection satellite toward orbit.
Sunday
150 Years Ago
May party: The party given by the Presbyterian Society at Corbett’s Hall for the children was a pleasant event. There was music, a convention of the girls and boys in which they elected their chairman and secretary, and they crowned their Queen of May. The program was carried out with spirit, refreshments and social enjoyment.
140 Years Ago
Local notes: One of the most remarkable cases where a prisoner refuses to accept liberty, is that of Louise Michel, the notorious French petroleuse [sic]. She has been pardoned from prison but refuses to go. It has been a perplexing question with authorities. If she becomes too combative, she may be carried out on a stretcher.
130 Years Ago
Dancing craze: The craze is always strong at the lake. At a dance at Glenbrook 65 people danced to the grinding of a hand organ. The organ was said to have reached America by way of the Mayflower.
70 Years Ago
Historic V&T Roundhouse (by Pete Kelley): “California interests acquired the properties at a price in the neighborhood of $100,000, and they hope to soon begin construction on a 200-room luxury hotel, complete with a swimming pool, theater restaurant, coffee shop and bar facilities.
Also sold to California businessman Paul Larquier of Los Angeles was three and two thirds blocks of additional V&T stone roundhouse which once handled as many as 52 trains, dispatched during a thriving, bustling period in 1875 following the great Virginia City fire… The old roundhouse and its foundry, blacksmith, car, tin, paint and boiler shops were the envy of the industrial nation back in the old days.
60 Years Ago
Memorial Day: Carson City will honor its fallen heroes of this nation’s wars, past and present, with swirling bagpipes, rifle volleys and prayers. Veteran’s organizations located within the community will assemble at the old cemetery at Stewart where the Rev. John D. Ward will memorialize the heroic dead with a benediction…
Monday
150 Years Ago
All sorts: Lumber in large quantities was teamed into town from Lake Bigler.
Born: In Carson City to the wife of Henry F. Cloueite, a son.
140 Years Ago
All sorts: It is rumored that Warden Bell gives Washoe prisoners extra buttermilk at supper.
130 Years Ago
Indian war on the Comstock: There is war threatened between the Shoshone and Piute’s. When the battle opens, the warriors are expected to pelt each other with old tin cans and brick bats. A policeman has been detached to quell the hostilities.
70 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Sky-Vue Drive-in Theatre — ‘Seven Brides for Seven Brothers’ with Jane Powell and Howard Keel and ‘Big Leaguer’ with Edward G. Robinson and Vera-Ellen.”
60 Years Ago
Photo caption: With the Carson City Nugget World Fair-New York six-day trip by Reno’s Bill Green and his assistant manager Ray Reinhardt confers at the airport with the crew…
Tuesday
150 Years Ago
Revival: Moody and Sankey continue to hold revival meetings daily. There is no diminution of the number of people who gather to hear them.
140 Years Ago
Who is he? An old man rode into Circe’s livery stable on a large work horse, and said he wanted it kept overnight. He didn’t appear the next morning and has not been seen since. He was an old, stout man with a white beard and a thick canvas overcoat.
130 Years Ago
A home marble cutter: Lindsay the marble cutter in Nevada is turning out some good work in ornamental marble cutting and elegant tombstones. He just finished a very unique design for the grave of George Hawkins. It represents a tree stump cut off about four feet above the ground. Lindsay took a premium at the World’s Fair and two at the Midwinter Fair — and with that the people of Carson concluded it was not necessary to send to San Francisco for ornamental tombstones.
70 Years Ago
Ferry Boat: The Royal Nevada Hotel has asked the Star & Crescent Ferry Co. of San Diego to furnish size specifications of their boats, to determine if one can be placed in the hotel’s swimming pool for youngsters.
60 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Carson Theater — ‘McHales Navy’ with Ernest Borgnine, Tim Convey and Joe Flynn. Their first full-length motion picture in color!”
Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.