The Seeker of Good Songs
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I thought of this thread of after posting something in another thread about things to see and do in Reno/Sparks
http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=71091
One thing I forgot to add that may be of interest to visitors from way out of the area that want to see something unique is the small old west town of Virginia City.
http://www.virginiacity-nv.org/
http://www.desertusa.com/Cities/nv/nv_virginiacity.html#anchor832166
If you remember the old western TV show Bonanza, this city is mentioned in it often. Some of the show might have even been filmed in the area. It is something like 20 miles from Reno. There is a mining museum, a prostitution museum (Julia Bulette Red Light Museum: The name commemorates Virginia City's most famous prostitute. Paraphernalia including contraceptives, medical instruments and quack medical cure-alls. Opium equipage is also displayed.), the "suicide table" - a poker table that tales say is "haunted" - that everyone who owned it lost so much gambling that they killed themselves, the $100,000 globe, the Mackay Mansion museum. I think there is even a tour of an old silver mine.
"Virginia City Nevada, is the largest federally designated Historical District in America. It is maintained in its original condition, as it was in the boom days of the 1870s, when the Comstock Lode made it the West's premier mining metropolis, with a population of 30,000."
current population of 1,500 people / 6,220 feet above sea level.
"At the peak of its glory, Virginia City was a boisterous town. There was gold in every hill and millions of dollars were being made. Men came from everywhere, the "Bonanza Kings" of Irish descent: Mackay, Fair, Flood and O'Brien. The spirits of these Comstock characters still inhabit the places they built, and romance still thrives in the wondrous place in the shadow of Sun Mountain. Learn of Mark Twain and his stint as a reporter for the Territorial Enterprise, and how his writing career began here. Virginia City is for families with a passion for history, imagination and truly unforgettable fun.!"
Also nearby is the Nevada capitol of Carson City, and Lake Tahoe.
http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showthread.php?t=71091
One thing I forgot to add that may be of interest to visitors from way out of the area that want to see something unique is the small old west town of Virginia City.
http://www.virginiacity-nv.org/
http://www.desertusa.com/Cities/nv/nv_virginiacity.html#anchor832166
If you remember the old western TV show Bonanza, this city is mentioned in it often. Some of the show might have even been filmed in the area. It is something like 20 miles from Reno. There is a mining museum, a prostitution museum (Julia Bulette Red Light Museum: The name commemorates Virginia City's most famous prostitute. Paraphernalia including contraceptives, medical instruments and quack medical cure-alls. Opium equipage is also displayed.), the "suicide table" - a poker table that tales say is "haunted" - that everyone who owned it lost so much gambling that they killed themselves, the $100,000 globe, the Mackay Mansion museum. I think there is even a tour of an old silver mine.
"Virginia City Nevada, is the largest federally designated Historical District in America. It is maintained in its original condition, as it was in the boom days of the 1870s, when the Comstock Lode made it the West's premier mining metropolis, with a population of 30,000."
current population of 1,500 people / 6,220 feet above sea level.
"At the peak of its glory, Virginia City was a boisterous town. There was gold in every hill and millions of dollars were being made. Men came from everywhere, the "Bonanza Kings" of Irish descent: Mackay, Fair, Flood and O'Brien. The spirits of these Comstock characters still inhabit the places they built, and romance still thrives in the wondrous place in the shadow of Sun Mountain. Learn of Mark Twain and his stint as a reporter for the Territorial Enterprise, and how his writing career began here. Virginia City is for families with a passion for history, imagination and truly unforgettable fun.!"
Also nearby is the Nevada capitol of Carson City, and Lake Tahoe.
