Moving into the 30s, when the country was entering the Great Depression, Assembly Bill 98 was passed, which allowed wide-open gambling and the rise of the gaming and casino industry. Once the casino industry began to take form, many changes happening in Nevada were in full swing. Throughout the years, adjustments were made to the tax on gambling after yearly reviews and additional establishments, including The Mapes , started to put down roots in Reno.
To assure that the casinos coming to this Nevada city were being set up for success, a bill was passed in allowing the State Tax Commission to review the background of anyone applying for a gambling license. As Nevada moved into the 50s, there weren't many changes to the gaming industry except for the tax increase, resulting in a population increase and more casino construction.
One major addition to the casino dynamic was the Black Book. The Black Book was a log of the distasteful patrons that made their way to the casino floor. Any person whose name was on the list was banned from entering the casino in the future.
This effort was made to decrease organized crime. The s was when the gambling industry was really booming and for good reason!
But, the gambling industry proved that it still had plenty more growing to do. In , the Gaming Industry Association was formed in Reno to help the industry grow in the right direction. He amassed a fortune from his year franchise of the toll bridge across the river, and encouraged a townsite be created on his property, which he then leveraged by giving the Central Pacific Railroad the right of way across his land, and through the newly formed town of Reno in But who was Charles Fuller?
Who first came to build an inn and tavern, and construct a toll bridge at a ford on the south side of the Truckee River? On Oct. He headed for Sierra County—a wide swath of mountains and fertile valleys northeast of San Francisco and abutting western Utah Territory. He took a job as a teamster and muleskinner, a man whose chief task was to keep the ornery animals on the move. He later worked in a general store in Pine Grove, which was a booming Gold Rush town.
Bill Fuller worked at the family ranch for the next few years, keeping watch on activities in the bordering Utah Territory, specifically a region called Washoe Nevada became a territory on March 2, Miners, mechanics, laborers, and other get-rich-quick hopefuls poured into Virginia City.
Many of these men had rushed to California for gold a decade earlier. There was one big difference, however. Reno began as the preferred crossing point of the Truckee River, an inland river that flows west to east from Lake Tahoe to Pyramid Lake, for travelers on their way to the California gold rush of the late 's and 50's. With the discovery of the Comstock Lode in the nearby Virginia City foothills in , the river crossing became increasingly important for the growing trade in mining and agriculture.
Reno was officially established in , the same year that the transcontinental railroad, which paralleled the Truckee River, reached the town. In , the University of Nevada was founded as a land-grant university, and in , the primary campus was built on a rise of land overlooking Reno from the north.
Reno became a quickie divorce destination in the early 's, and in , Nevada legalized gambling.
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