NEWS AROUND THE STATE

ARCHIVE DIVE

Our featured cover this week is December 1985: the decade where everyone could pull off a form-fitting neon pink suit.
Our featured advertisement is from March/April 1992. Don’t tell these happy gamblers that coin slots are about to disappear forever.

This week, we’re aiming to be first at everything. Here are a few tales of folks’ firsts.

FIRST CHASE – A city slicker takes up running mustangs and gets a little too good at following orders.

MY FIRST GOLDMINE – Mark Twain’s own story about his mining misadventure in Unionville.

MAYME & SONS – Who got Nevada’s first gaming license? It wasn’t a mobster.

MYSTERY PHOTO

Each week, we quiz Nevada experts to spot that location. Send your answers to the email found at the bottom of this page.

That’s it for this week! Have some local news you’d like to share? Send a message to csmunson@nevadamagazine.com