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Elko: The First 100 Years
Elko was the end of the tracks laid from the west by the Central
Pacific Railroad in 1868. When CPRR tracklayers moved on east to
meet construction crews of the Union Pacific Railroad at Promontory,
Utah Territory, they left a small tent town on the banks of the
Humboldt River.
When Elko began it was a rough and tumble place populated by
railroaders, miners, gamblers and a few merchants. In 1869 a
newcomer remarked in a letter, "There were all sorts of games and
vices in progress and only two men were killed the day I arrived."
The community soon had a few permanent buildings and its economy
expanded into freighting to area mining camps and became a ranch
supply center. Since then, gambling, tourism, modern gold mining and
its many service groups have added to the economic slate.
The town was probably named by Charles Crocker, superintendent of
the CPRR. He was fond of animal names and simply added an "o" to
Elk.
The state legislature formed Elko County from a portion of Lander
County in 1869. With 17,127 square miles, it is the sixth largest
county in the nation.
From 1869 to 1917 the community was run by Elko County
Commissioners whose motto was: "The best government is the least
government."
Following are the ups and downs of a growing frontier town.
1868: December 29, Elko founded by the Central Pacific Railroad
(later Southern Pacific, now Union Pacific).
Townsite laid out.
1869 Railroad agents sold lots for $300 to $500 each.
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Early in the year the town was made up of about sixty tents.
Earliest existing photograph of Elko. Taken in 1869. Courtesy of Northeastern Nevada
Museum.
March 5, Elko County formed and Elko named the county
seat.
A brick courthouse is constructed at Sixth and Idaho streets
at a cost of $20,000.
First Elko County Courthouse, built on the northwest corner of Sixth and Idaho in 1869. It
was in use until torn down and replaced by the present structure in 1910. Original cost of
this building was $20,000. Photo: Northeastern Nevad Museum.
Humboldt Lodging House (predecessor of the Commercial
Hotel) built.
Elko's first newspaper, the Elko Independent, begins
publication on June 19.
Cosmopolitan Hotel built next to the railroad track, 80
rooms.
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Missouri Flats, in the vicinity of Silver and Ninth streets, is
headquarters for freighters, their animals and rigs.
An opera house in a tent opened. Culture arrived early.
Pioneer Saloon began business on the northeast corner of
Fifth and Railroad.
A resort, White Sulphur Hot Springs, was built near the Hot
Hole off Bullion Road.
Elko's 45 saloons outnumbered all other businesses in town.
1870: The first church was the Presbyterian, built at Sixth and Pine.
First school opened at 421 Court with 70 students, cost was
$3,000. (Site of Chilton Engineering, different building).
First school building was built at 421 Court Street in 1870. It opened with 70 students
and enrollment doubled to 140 by the end of the first year. After a new school was
constructed five blocks east, the building was used as a Knights of Phythias Hall. A new
KP hall was later built on the same site and is presently owned by Chilton Engineering.
Photo: Northeastern Nevada Museum.
Lots now selling from $1,500 to $2,000.
Population estimated at 4,500.
1871: Fire destroys most of the business district.
Elko cattleman, Lewis "Broadhorns" Bradley elected second
governor of Nevada.
1872: A brickworks at Idaho and the road to Mountain City begins
business.
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1873: 1873: Cosmopolitan renamed the Chamberlain (later changed
to Depot Hotel).
Early 1869 photo of Elko showing the Depot Hotel. The lodging place has 80 rooms, a
dining room that seated 112, a billard room, bar and barbershop. Photo: Northeastern
Nevada Museum.
1874: Elko is selected the first site of the University of Nevada. A
building is constructed on the northeast corner of College
Avenue and Ninth. (Where the "old gym" at the high school
presently stands).
Population estimated at 5,000.
First University of Nevada building. Located at the corner of Ninth and College streets.
Now you now where College Streets got its name. After the university was moved to
Reno in 1885. The building was the county hospital for many years. It was torn down in
1928.
1875: Elko Flour Mill, Commercial between Seventh and Eighth,
begins operation and provides the first water system for the
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town.
University of Nevada dormitory built on Ninth and Court.
(Still there).
1877: October 7, two-story brick school building opens on the
north side of Court between Eighth and Ninth.
1882: White Sulphur Springs Hotel burns down, rebuilt.
Population estimate is 600. Area mining curtailed causing a
Nevada-wide depression.
1883: Elko Free Press begins publication on January 5.
1885: University of Nevada moved to Reno.
Population estimated at 1,000.
1886: Elko Flour Mill generates first electricity and supplies power
to a few street lights.
1892: Episcopal Church dedicated at Fifth and Idaho.
Fifth and Idaho Streets in 1896. The Episcopal Church is now the site of the Esquire
Motor Lodge. A cafe, advertising meals for 25 cents, is where Algerio Real Estate is now
located. Photo: Northeastern Nevada Museum.
1896: Elko County High School, the first county school in the state,
opens on Court and Sixth with 43 students, cost is $7,420. It
is a two-story building used until the present high school
buildings were constructed on College. The building, without
its second story, still stands behind the present courthouse
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and is used for county offices.
First county high school in the state at Court and Sixth streets. Opened in 1896, the
operated until the new campus was built in 1918. The building, without its second floor
which burned in 1942, is now used for county offices. Photo: Northeastern Nevada
Museum.
1899: Hot Springs hotel burns again, rebuilt again.
Third Hot Springs Hotel. The first building was constructed in 1869 and burned in 1882.
The second burned in 1899. Notice the little horse-drawn bus that made regular trips into
town to transport guests. Photo: Northeastern Nevada Museum.
1904: Depot Hotel is demolished and the Mayer Hotel (present site
of the Stockmen's Hotel) constructed.
Population estimated at 800.
1907: Chamber of Commerce formed.
1908: Western Pacific Railroad (now Union Pacific) lays track
through town and builds a depot. WPRR tracks ran on Silver
and Southern Pacific rails ran between Railroad and
Commercial. (Present downtown parking area). Both sets of
tracks relocated south to their present locations in 1984.
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1910: New courthouse built on northwest corner of Idaho at Sixth
(same site as first courthouse), cost $150,000.
New grammar school replaces older facility on Court
between Eighth and Ninth.
Commercial Street in 1910 looking east. Photo: Northeastern Nevada Museum.
1913: Elko-Lamoille Power Company provides direct electric
current to Elko.
Nevada Industrial School (boys reformatory) opens four
miles east of town. Now the Nevada Youth Training Center.
Pioneer Hotel building completed. ( Now the Western
Folklife Center.)
1915: Elko-Lamoille Power Company switches to alternating
current.
1916: Catlin Shale Products Company opens an experimental oil
extraction plant southwest of town off Bullion Road.
Operated until 1925. Extraction methods developed there are
still in use today.
Population estimated at 2,500.
1917: Elko incorporated as a city.
J.A. McBride is first mayor.
Elko Municipal Water Works established.
1918: Grammar school on Court burns down on Christmas Day.
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Christmas Day, 1918. The building had been used for only eight years. Freshly oiled
floors were blamed. Photo: Northeastern Nevada Museum.
1919: New elementary school built on same site. The school is
called Number One until it was renamed to honor Kate St.
Claire in 1973. Nevada's first community college was also
housed in the building until it was demolished in 1974 to make
way for the Green Acre apartments.
1920: Elko designated an airmail station on the first transcontinental
route.
First county fair held on the Garcia rodeo grounds located
south of the river.
1921: Elko General Hospital built at the corner of College and
Thirteenth.
Elko General Hospital at College and Thirteenth around 1940. Built in 1921, it was in
use until demolished in 1978 for the present building immediately west of the old
structure. Photo: Northeastern Nevada Museum.
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1926: Elko becomes the terminus of the first commercial airmail
flight in the nation when Varney Airlines (later part of United
Air Lines) completes flight from Pasco, Washington.
County library moved from courthouse to the second floor of
the old high school building at Court and Sixth.
1927: Present County Fairgrounds built on part of old China Ranch
were Chinese once raised vegetables for sale in town.
1929: Henderson Bank Building, tallest in town, opens.
1930: Elko Flour Mill torn down.
First Elko High School Band formed.
1932: Gambling legalized.
1933: Present downtown Post Office Building opens.
1934: Elko attorney Morley Griswold becomes 16th governor of
Nevada when Fred Balzar dies in office.
First street paving program begins.
1939: Elko attorney Edward Carville becomes 18th governor. Later
appointed U.S. Senator.
1941: Big name entertainment begins in Nevada in The Lounge of
Elko's Commercial Hotel with Ted Lewis and his orchestra.
1942: 1942: Fire destroys second floor of the old high school
building. The burned part is removed and the first level is
remodeled to be the home of the Elko County Library until
the new library building was built at Court and Seventh in
1974.
1944: Mayer Hotel becomes Stockmen's Hotel.
On December 8, Marilyn Patterson christens the military
transport ship, S.S. Elko Victory.
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1946: Ranchinn opens with 68 rooms on Idaho between Eighth and
Ninth.
1947: DeLuxe Cleaners building at 511 Railroad collapses killing
three.
1948: City Hall at 723 Railroad opens, remains as city hall until the
new one was built in 1972 at 1751 College.
Famous movie star and crooner Bing Crosby is named
"Honorary Mayor of Elko." He held the post until his death in
1977.
Elko's first radio station, KELK, begins broadcasting.
1951: Former Elkoan, Charles B. Russell, becomes Nevada's 20th
governor.
World premiere of movie, "Here Comes the Groom," starring
Bing Crosby held at the Hunter Theater in Elko.
1956: 1956: Northeastern Nevada Historical Society formed.
1957: Stockmen's Hotel burns, new hotel and casino built on the
same site.
1959: Grant Sawyer, an Elko attorney, is Nevada's 21st governor.
1966: New high school gymnasium at Cedar and Ninth built.
1967: Elko citizens group forms first community college in the state.
It is quartered in Number One school until its new campus is
constructed at 901 Elm Street. First named Elko Community
College, then Northern Nevada Community College, today it
is Great Basin College.
1968: Northeastern Nevada Museum, 1515 Idaho Street opened in
a small white brick building. New construction and
remodeling was completed in 1982, and 1998 will see the
debut of the new wing. The museum has won numerous
awards, including the highest, the American Association for
State and Local History Award of Merit (twice).
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In the next 20 years to 1998, Elko underwent changes that have
forever altered its personality and looks. The growth came mainly
from nearby gold mines that made northeast Nevada the largest gold
producing area in the nation. With the discovery of microscopic gold
and new methods of extraction came people from all over the world
and Elko's population exploded.
Elko today is the largest community between Salt Lake City (235
miles to the east) and Reno (290 miles west). The community's
remoteness gives the people a certain spirit of independence and it
remains as one of the American West's premier frontier towns. Yet,
there is a special metropolitan spirit because it is the social and
cultural center for an area larger than most states back east.
Times have changed but the place is still a 24-hour town where the
casinos never close. Some say that Elko is an evil place in which to
live with its legalized gambling, drinking, and other vices, but the town
has solid citizens with a strong economy, excellent schools, Great
Basin College, Western Folklife Center, churches, the Northeastern
Nevada Museum, Convention Center, and many cultural activities
lacking in other cities of the same size.
It is a pleasant place to live with clean air, numerous cultural events,
the spectacular nearby Ruby Mountains, people who still have time
to stop and chat for a few minutes, boundless outdoor and sports
activities, ghost towns where one can walk a few moments in the
past...the list is long and it is up to you to decide what you want to do
it. Take some time to enjoy the people and the land.
Howard Hickson
29 March 1998
This piece is from an article, "Elko, Nevada: 1868-1968," I compiled
for the Fall 1983 (83-4) issue of the Northeastern Nevada Historical
Society Quarterly. My thanks are extended today as back in 1983 to
Milo Taber (now deceased), and Terry Reynolds and Jack Sutherland
(both former City Managers) for their assistance in locating some of
the sites.
�1998 by Howard Hickson. If any portion or all of this article is used or quoted proper
credit must be given to the authors.
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Halley's Comet
Midas, Nevada - April 27, 1910
Residents of Midas, a gold camp in Elko County, were jolted from bed at 3:30
a.m. on April 27, 1910, when a blast rocked the countryside and shook buildings.
Running from their houses and cabins, still in their gowns and nightshirts, they
heard a voice in the darkness, "Everybody up! Halley's comet is about to appear!"
Tousled heads and bleary eyes turned toward a nearby hill just east of town as
a very bright light appeared. They were suddenly awake and watched in
amazement and wonder as the light lit the sky for about twenty minutes. Then it
faded away and the morning star appeared. It was indeed a beautiful sight.
Midas around the time when Halley's Comet visited the place. Photograph
from the Northeastern Nevada Museum collections, Elko.
Everyone was thrilled. Sighting the famed comet was a once in a lifetime event.
It crosses the sky only about once every 75 years, give or take a couple of years.
The great American humorist Mark Twain claimed to have been born during the
comet's last sighting in 1835 and maintained that he would leave this life when it
next appeared.
Wide awake now but hoping to salvage a little sleep, Midas residents went
back to bed. They would learn, when the news reached Midas a couple of days
later, that Twain had passed away on April 21. Close enough, most commented.
Dick Avery, a night shift miner at the Rex Mine, harbored a secret most the of
following day. After getting a snoot full at one of the bars, he told all about the
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previous night when Halley's Comet visited Midas.
He had gotten a long pole about thirty feet in length. After fastening a bundle of
waste cloth on one end, he saturated it with oil then detonated a stick of dynamite
to wake the town.
After announcing the comet's coming, he raced to the hill top which was, more
or less, the proper direction for sighting the celestial wonder. He lit the torch and
proceeded to fake the miracle of the heavens. He did such a good job that
everyone, bar none, thought they had seen the famous comet.
Many of those who had walked a half mile or so to view Avery's Comet were
not entirely pleased about the hoax. In fact, some were outright mad. Others
chuckled at the joke played on them. After all, it put some excitement and fun into
a sometimes dull life of a remote mining camp.
Downtown Midas around 1928. Photograph from the Northeastern Nevada Museum
collections, Elko.
On April 28, 1910, the real comet was first sighted by the naked eye and was
seen nightly until the end of June. May 10 was the night it was closest to earth, only
14,300,000 miles away.
Midas was named for the legendary Greek king whose touched turned
everything to gold. Before that it was called Gold Circle and Summit, at different
times, of course.
Midas citizens have put together a museum in the old school there. It is worth
the trip to visit the town. Although there are still mining operations nearby, the
flavor and personality of the old mining camp are still there.
Howard Hickson
April 21, 2001
Sources: Much of the research for this article was done more than twenty years ago by
Claudia Riordan when she was on the staff of the Northeastern Nevada Museum, Elko. An
excellent source for town names and brief histories is Nevada Place Names by Helen S.
Carlson, University of Nevada Press, Reno, 1974.
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NORTHEASTERN NEVADA MUSEUM
Newton Hunt Crumley
by Chris H. Sheerin
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1979 Quarterly
It Began in Elko
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IT BEGAN IN ELKO
Big-Name Entertainment in Nevada
by Angela Aguirre {deBraga)
This story about big-nanie entertainment in Nevada
and its Elko beginnings was published in the
Northeastern Nevada Quarterly in 1982.
It is being re-printed here because this was also an
important part of the history of this area and many
of the present Quarterly readers either did not live
here, were not members, or were not even born when
this story came out the first time.
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A hush fell over the opening night audience in the·
Lounge of the Commercial Hotel in Elko as plush
curtains parted. Applause broke out when the tuxedodad orchestra leader raised his battered silk top hat and
asked, "Is everybody happy?"
Big name show business in Nevada started that night
as Ted Lewis asked his famous question and gave his
That successful merging began in 1937 when Newton
Crumley opened the first lounge in the Commercial
Hotel. Although the hotel bar had been open, even
during periods of prohibition, the new addition was
Elko's first sophisticated cocktail lounge. There was a
small dance floor in front of an alcove where three or
four musicians held forth entertaining bar patrons and
dancing couples, The popularity of the room led Newton
The Commercial Hotel, at approximately the time Newt Crumley
started bringing in big-name entertainment..,
Museum photo, donated by Jean Humt:r
jazz band a downbeat. The date was April 26, 1941 . The
Commercial's show room was simply ... The Lounge.
There was no cover charge and no food was served.
Hunt Crumley, son of the hotel's owner, to the idea that
made him the "Father" of big name hotel-casino show
business.
Today, when people think of the Silver State, they see
visions of exotic showgirls, dazzling lights, top-notch
entertainment and that unique magic of gambling.
Through young Newt's activities big time entertainment
thrived in Elko for more than two decades.
Gaming in Nevada was legalized by the 1931 state
legislature, but it wasn't until the 1940s that gambling
and name entertainment joined hands in a winning
combination that would grow into today's huge exciting
industry.
In early 1941 remodeling was completed on a new
show area just west of the old lounge.
Young Crumley contracted the "High-hatted Tragedian
of Jazz," along with his world famous orchestra and
21-member stage revue for an eight-day run. On April
26, Lewis began the parade of big name entertainers to
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Elko. The tab was $12,000 per week, a fabulous price- for
a modest-sized city like Elko.
When local citizens heard that Ted Lewis was coming
to Elko, it was too much for them to believe. A rumor
circulated that Lewis would not appear and, if the band
did come, the leader certainly would not be the famed
Lewis himself, but someone posing as him. After his
appearance, someone was heard to remark, "If the former
During the orchestra's appearance, the Commercial's
business was brisk and even Lewis joined in the
gambling. In fact, when he left Elko, he had spent all
he made and departed with the two Crumleys holding
his IOU for a sizeable amount- so large that Lewis
endorsed his contract check in such a manner that he
agreed to a return engagement to square the marker.
Elko appealed to other entertainers. Many show people
stayed in Elko for a week or two
just to have fun. In order to rest
and "get a little Nevada sunshine,"
Sophie Tucker, the famed singer. comedienne, billed as the "Last
of the Red Hot Mamas," came
to town two days prior to her
Commercial engagement. After
her arrival, she met a number of
Elkoans at the Lounge and topped
off the day by going to the movies.
The hotel management also
arranged for her to visit the Petan
Ranch in northern Elko County.
An early picture ofthe Lounge at the Commercial Hotel.
Museum phoco, donated
by Tony Fllen Primeaux
doubting Thomases ofElko heard that Eleanor Roosevelt
was going to broadcast 'My Day' under the Lounge
auspices from the corner of Fourth and Railroad Street,
they'd be on hand to watch the proceedings."
Lewis, his orchestra, and revue had the desired effect.
Former Nevada State Journal editor, Paul Leonard,
remembered the reaction as "electric."
When the show was over, many in the crowd stuck
around in the Commercial's casino that contained a long
bar, a roulette table, a couple of21 tables, a few poker
tables and a simple lunch counter.
Thus, Nevada casino owners discovered that famous
name entertainment set an excellent atmosphere for
gambling, attracted people to the gaming rooms and,
therefore, paid off well in the long run.
Miss Tucker appeared with Carl
Ravazza's popular dance band in
the hotel's "Serenade to Summer."
She made such a hit Saturday
and Sunday nights that it was
announced that there would
also be a show Monday evening.
Ordinarily, no performance was
presented on Mondays; shows ran
from Saturday to Saturday, with a
break on Monday.
Huge crowds quickly made seating difficult on weekend
nights and the Commercial staff began taking fewer
reservations and held them only until 8:45 p.m. Efforts
were made to accommodate patrons on other nights so
there would be more room for dancing. The big bands
took up a large section of the floor. Floor shows in those
days were just that ... "floor shows."
The situation led to construction of a tiered platform
at the north end of the Lounge to afford guests seated
in that area of the night spot a better view of the
performance. Later, a stage was built in the end of the
room.
Many bandleaders of the era wrote one or two hit
songs, but Ray Noble, who came to Elko in July, 1941,
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with TED SHAPIRO at the piano, appearing at
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was, perhaps the only one who achieved equal distiilction
both as a bandleader and composer.
Radio." Together, they presented the "1941 Harvest of
Entertainment."
Next up, just returning from a theatre engagement in
New York City, came Paul Whiteman, "King of Jazz,"
who blitzed Elko crowds during his nine-day stint. This
left the Lounge management wondering where they were
going to "hang" the customers during the Elko County
Livestock Show and Fair.
The seventh "big time" show of the year featured Dave
Marshall and the NBC orchestra during Thanksgiving
week.
Club patrons who got a closeup ofWhiteman for the
first time went away remarking: "He's a real guy," "I liked
his informal way." "You can tell he's from the West."
When Whiteman was first signed to appear in Elko,
it made the front page of Variety, the show business
newspaper. So
astounding was the
news in the night
club entertainment
field, that the
headlines read
"Whiteman Fixed to
Play Stix."
Ending the 1941 list of famous personalities in the
entertainment world, Chico Marx, a member of the
popular Marx Brothers comedy team, starred in the
seven-say Christmas and New Year's Eve celebrations
with a five-act floor show.
Young Crumley had a clause in every contract that
required the star to give at least one free performance for
the children and teenagers of the community. Most of
While in town,
Whiteman, with
the help of the
mayors from Reno
and Winnemucca,
selected the 1941
Miss Elko County
to rule over fair
time festivities.
Headline in the
Elko Daily Free
Press of September
Another view ofthe early lounge at the Commercial Hotel.
9, 1941, declared"
Museum photo, donated by Tony & Ellen Primeaux
'41 Fair Looms as
Biggest in Show's
these shows were held in the Hunter Theatre. He insisted
History." People were attracted here from all sections of
upon, and enforced, a policy that all these shows be on a
Nevada and neighboring states to see Whiteman and his
level "to which you could bring your children." Anyone
orchestra in downtown Elko.
offering off-color entertainment soon found his contract
It is putting it mildly to say that the entertainment
cancelled. Special performances were also presented at
world was agog over the fact that city the size of Elko was
the Old Folks Home and Nevada Industrial School.
so privileged to see big names appear one after another.
In 1942 after the nation entered World War II, the
Ted Fio Rito and Getrude Niesen followed Donald
economy was booming and the American public became
entertainment hungry. The Commercial's shows, during
Novis as the next Lounge attractions. Rio Fito was
the war, were taken to Wendover Air Base, Utah, for the
a world-famous composer and Niesen was billed
as "America's Sweetheart - Star of Stage Screen and
men who were stationed there.
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The Commercial Hotel continued its "big-name" policy
after the war and was joined by its rival directly across the
railroad tracks through downtown Elko, the Stockmen's
Hotel. Once the Mayer Hotel, the 102-room building was
bought by R.C. "Red" Ellis and A. C. Bigham who changed
the name to the Stockmen's. They opened a lounge in
August, 1946, to take advantage of the county fair crowd
around Labor Day. A few weeks later, on October 4, the
name of the room was changed to the Roundup Room and
opened with "Hi" Davis and his orchestra, with Ann Triola,
a singing comedy star. The Andrini Brothers rounded out
the show.
Following the first show were stars Margaret Whiting, Burl
lves, Alfred Drake, Rex Allen and Tennessee Ernie Ford.
Elkoans and their visitors never had it so good as when the
In 1946, another hotel, the Ranchinn, was built and
opened by young Crumley. Elaborately dedicated on
December 18, the "super motel," one of the first ever
built after the war, had a second-floor club room, and
elegant bar and cabaret, fine Chinese food and the
highest gambling limits in town.
Tex Ritter, "America's Most Beloved Western Star,"
and Henry Busse, the famous "Hot-Lips Trumpet
Man," entertained at the Commercial's Christmas
show to honor the Ranchinn's opening.
The Intermountain West's biggest professional rodeo
came to Elko in 1948 and the First Annual Silver
State Stampede was not exclusively a local show;
it was also sponsored by several casinos in other
Nevada towns. Bing Crosby, Elko's Honorary Mayor,
rhe Stockmen's Hotel, the second establishment to feature big-name entertainment in Elko.
Museum photo
Crumleys and Ellis were in competition; and the prices were
right- there was never a cover charge or minimum. Hotel
patrons saw the most beautiful floor shows in the world.
Entertainment was fabulous, hard to believe - and it didn't
cost more than a drink or rwo at one of the hotels. All this
was offered at a time when drinks were 25 cents apiece!
officially opened the celebration that featured the
nation's foremost riders, ropers, bulldoggers and arena
entertainers.
Top attractions were booked into the local nightspots.
The Rocky Mountain Playboys performed in the
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Roundup Room while The
Lounge featured stage and
screen favorites, Professor
Lambert and Pinky Lee, in its
"Stampede Revue," In short,
according to the Elko Daily
Free Press, "no expense had
been spared, no stone left
unturned and nothing was
left out" in order to make the
Stampede a success.
In 1951, a movie premiere
was scheduled to be held in
Elko and elaborate citywide
preparations began for the
three-day festivities. Fifteen
thousand windshield stickers
1he opening ceremonies for the new Ranchinn drew a
were pasted on vehicles
big crowd, considering it was in late afternoon in December.
entering town: "We are coming
1he dignitaries, including Governor Pittman and Bing Crosby,
back for the World Premiere
were on the balcony, addressing the crowd in the parking lot.
of 'Here Comes the Groom."'
Museum photo
Store fronts and windows,
street lamps and "public
conveyances" were derorated to give the entire community
More than a hundred Hollywood celebrities, newsmen
a holiday atmosphere. The eyes and ears of the nation were
and political dignitaries arrived in chartered planes at the
focused on Elko when the premiere showing of Paramount
Elko airport. Their coming was witnessed by the largest
Picture's "Here Comes the Groom," starring Elko's
gathering of people in the history of the city.
honorary mayor, Bing Crosby, was held.
The huge celebration began with the
CBS coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a
street show from a platform in front the
Hunter Theatre featuring all the stars,
several media people, Utah governor
J. Bracken Lee, Nevada governor
Charles Russell, Nevada Congressman
Walter S. Baring and Elko Mayor Dave
Dotta. A giant stage show of stars was
held in the Hunter Theatre later that
evening starring Bing Crosby, Alexis
Smith, Dorothy Lamour, Cass Daley,
Jay Livingston, Ray Evans and Connie
Bosswell and the Cass County Boys.
The entertainers then appeared on
the stage at the Rainbo Theatre. The
showing of the film took place later
that evening.
1he Ranchinn, after a new sign was put in place and the
gate andfence had been removed from
he front ofthe parking lot.
Museum photo, donated by Pete & Dawn Ormaza
Almost ten thousand dollars were taken
in from the premiere. The money was
turned over to a fund for constructing a
new million-dollar hospital for Elko.
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The general opinion of many was that this had been the
"biggest and most elaborate movie send-off since "Gone
With the Wind" in Atlanta," and that "Here Comes
the Groom" represented the greatest "entertainment
package" in Crosby's career, including "Going My Way,"'
He won an Oscar for Best Actor in 1944 for his role in
"Going MiWay."
Ellis sold the Stockmen's Hotel to Dan Bilboa Sr.,
J.B. Dollard and VJ. McGee, all of Boise, Idaho, on
December 30, 1952. By 1955, young Crumley decided
to look for new fields of action and had sold the
Commercial to Harrigton Drake. The sale did not go
through and Red Ellis purchased both the Commercial
Hotel and Ranchinn.
Entertainment in Elko continued to be first rate. Such
stars as Nelson Eddie and Jeanette McDonald, Anna
Maria Alberghetti and the original Sons of the Pioneers
performed.
Wayne Newton sang in Elko when he was just 12-years
old. Because of his age, he was escorted to and from the
stage.
Vikki Carr first came to Elko in 1959 with The Pars.
After playing only a short time at the Commercial, a
misunderstanding arose and she left the group. Being
19 then, she took a job at the front desk of the hotel
and became acquainted with Eileen and "Dutch"
Holdren who be~ame her "adopted parents," Miss Carr
moved in with the Holdren family and later returned
to entertaining at the hotel bar. From the Commercial
Hotel, she moved to the Ranchinn with the duo, Knight
.,
A banquet during the grand opening of the Ranchinn. Newt Crumley is at the
microphone, with Ida Pittman, Governor Vail Pitmann,
and Frances Crumley, to his left.
The large cake on the table was made in the shape ofthe new hotel
Museum photo, donated by ]tan Hunrer
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and Day. After that engagement, she left Elko but
returned to stay with the Holdrens in 1960 and 1961.
She often cleaned house, fixed meals and even mowed
the lawn during her visits.
Advertising has always played an important role in
attractive visitors to see big name casino attractions.
Thomas C. Wilson, in Nevada magazine, said, "In Elko,
where big name showbiz began in Nevada, there has
always been keen competition between the two leading
casinos. Billboards for the Stockmen's Hotel featured an
eye-grabbing bull in a strong highway campaign from
the Utah border to California. Scores of signs featured
the huge bull. One night a group of friends of the rival
Commercial Hotel drove across the entire state painting
the cattle brand of the Commercials owner on the side of
every Stockmen's bull. It meant nothing to tourists, but
provoked belly-laughs in every Western cowtown.
Exact prices paid for special entertainers are closely
guarded secrets, but in the forties, Ted Lewis was paid
$12,000 a week. From the mid-fifties to the mid-sixties,
the Commercial Hotel's entertainment budget was
$600,000 a year. Today, its budget is under $275,000
annually. The biggest and most expensive shows have
always been booked during holidays and county fair
time.
In Elko, shows have mostly been promoted locally,
though advertisements were run in Salt Lake City in
the 1950s through the 1970s.· Some commercials now
appear on the three Salt Lake television stations. Ellis
A crowd in front ofthe Hunter 1heater, awaiting the arrival ofthe movie stars
for the world premier ofHere Comes the Groom.
Museum photo
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Hunter and Rainbo Theatres for -
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Shortly after the hotel opened, a swimming
pool was installed in the middle ofthe
front parking lot. After several years, it was
removed because the parking spaces were
needed. This picture shows the Ranchinn sign,
reflected in the pool.
Museum photo, donated by Earl & G~nevieve Frannen
About the Author
7he following was written in the 1979 Quarterly about the author,
Angela Aguirre.
says he now employs around 250 people and spends
about $1.5 million annually on advertising.
Appearances of top-ranking performers cost their
sponsors hundreds of thousands of dollars for a week's
engagement. Such prices, the lack of proper facilities
and policy and ownership changes in Elko's leading
casinos brought an end to the "big name" era and
the entertainment center has migrated to the two
metropolitan areas in the state. Although big time shows
are gone from Elko, the memory of where it all started
in Nevada remains, and the city will always hold, with
pride, the title of where it all began back in 1941.
Angela Aguirre is presently attending the University
of Nevada, Reno, and is in her second year of business
administration. She is
a member of the Ad
Club and Delta Delta
Delta sorority and is
studying with a scholastic
scholarship.
Her monograph about
the start of big name
entertainment in Nevada is
her first published work.
She was born in Elko
in 1962, attended local
schools and grduated
from Elko High School in
AngelaAguirre, 1982
1981 where she actively
participated in band,
cheerleading, student government, German Club,
Honor society, Girls State delegte, Homecoming Queen,
Cathoiic Young Group and recipient of the Triple "E"
award, Nevada Insurance Education Scholarship and
Phyllis Carter Memorial Scholarship.
Angela's parents are Frank and Louise Aguirre of Elko.
Editor's note:
In 2011, Angie is married to joe deBraga and they are the
parents of two sons, Thomas and justin. She is the Director
of Continuing Education and Community Outreach for
Great Basin College and previously was with the University
ofNevada, Reno Extended Studies in Elko for 15 years.
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"It Began in Elko: Big-Name Entertainment in Nevada"
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Community
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Items related to the celebration of Great Basin College's 50th anniversary (1967-2017)
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Starting as Elko Community College in 1967 and later Northeast Nevada Community College, Great Basin College (GBC) began as a true community-oriented college to serve the needs of first northeast Nevada and now almost the entirety of rural Nevada.
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GBC President's Office, 13 March 2015
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<p>Dr. Hugh Collett was a member of the original committee which founded Elko Community College (the predecessor to GBC) in 1967. Dr. Collett discusses Elko in the 1960s, the motives for the establishment of the Elko Community College, and the successes and struggles of its early years.</p>
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Publicity photo of singer/actor Bing Crosby sweeping Elko streets in 1948.
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Honorary Elko Mayor Bing Crosby sweeping the street in front of the Ranch Inn at Ninth Street and Idaho Street in 1948, supervised by Elko Mayor Dave Dotta.
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Howard Hickson's Histories are true stories about Northeastern Nevada's colorful past, written with wry humor and keen insight into the sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, sometimes downright eerie lives of cowboys, miners, and gamblers, villains and saints and men and women of both extremes, who've inhabited or passed through the region. The collection is a cultural treasure that Great Basin College is privileged to make available to the world via the Internet. New stories are added as Howard sees fit.
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<a title="Mayor Bing Crosby original article" href="http://www.gbcnv.edu/howh/MayorCrosby.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mayor Bing Crosby: http://www.gbcnv.edu/howh/MayorCrosby.html</a> <center>
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<p> <span style="color: #000066;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mayor Bing Crosby</span></span> <br /><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Elko, Nevada (1948-1977)</span></span></p>
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<p>A famous photograph of Bing Crosby and Elko Mayor Dave Dotta appeared in newspapers and magazines world wide in 1948. Dotta is supervising Crosby while the singer/actor sweeps the street in front of the Ranch Inn at Ninth and Idaho streets.</p>
<p>Crosby bought several ranches in the North Fork area and spent summers there to get away from his hectic schedule. His first family, wife Dixie, and four sons Gary, Philip, Lindsay and Dennis shared those times with Bing.</p>
<p>He frequently came to town where he was treated just like one of the locals. In fact, he was so comfortable in Elko he didn't wear his hair piece. He became one of "us," not one of "them." It was a place where he could literally let his hair down and he sincerely appreciated his acceptance by the townspeople.</p>
<p>Crosby, in his book, <em>Call Me Lucky</em>, said he wasn't asked for an autograph, to give to a charity, do a benefit appearance, or to do anything but "mind my own business." Bing fit right in.</p>
<p>He loved the town and the town loved "Der Bingle." As a publicity stunt, but an appropriately serious one, Bing was asked to be Honorary Mayor of Elko and he accepted. </p>
<p>February 7, 1948 was the big day. Ceremonies were held at the Ranch Inn and the Commercial Hotel.</p>
<p>Mayor Dotta read the declaration: "In humble recognition of your outstanding contributions to high standards of American citizenship, sportsmanship, clean living, parenthood, et. al.; and finally your substantial additions to community life in the City and County of Elko, I am privileged and proud to herewith appoint you by official proclamation, Honorary Mayor of Elko, Nevada to serve <em>ad infinitum</em>. We are grateful that you have seen fit to accept this honor."</p>
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<p><img src="http://www.gbcnv.edu/howh/MayorCrosby01.jpg" alt="" width="365" height="293" /> <br /><em><span>Elko Mayor Dave Dotta presents the Key to the City at the ceremony designating Bing Crosby (without his hair piece) Honorary Mayor of Elko on February 7, 1948. Photo from the Northeastern Nevada Museum Collections.</span></em></p>
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<p>Dotta told Bing that the townspeople would make sure the singer carried out his duties which included getting the snow plows out, directing traffic, and street cleaning. His training began immediately and that's when the famous photograph was snapped.</p>
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<p>In his acceptance speech, he promised to close down all the saloons - but not until everybody was inside.</p>
<p>Bing Crosby remained Honorary Mayor of Elko until 1977 when he died of a heart attack in Spain following a round of golf. Elkoans sincerely mourned the loss to the town and to the world. Part of his limitless acting and musical legacy was his 1944 Academy Award for Best Actor (<em>Going My Way</em>) and for <em>White Christmas</em>, the song forever associated with him, the 1942 Academy Award for Best Song. But in town, he was just Bing, one of us.</p>
<p><span>Howard Hickson</span> <br /><span>July 20, 2003</span></p>
<p><span>Source: This story is condensed from just one of many written by Carol Hendershot in "Bing Crosby," <em>Northeastern Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, Summer 1984 (84-3)</em>. What a great job she did preserving memories of Crosby's decade or so living in northeast Nevada. It is a publication worth owning and reading. A few copies are still available at the Northeastern Nevada Museum, Elko. Other information came from the text in the Levi tuxedo exhibit in the museum and personal knowledge.</span></p>
<p><span>©Copyright 2003 by Howard Hickson.</span></p>
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Singer and actor Bing Crosby owned a number of ranches in the North Fork area and frequented Elko with his family when vacationing on the ranches. In 1948, Bing became the honorary mayor of Elko, a position he held until his death in 1977, The article relates the story of how Bing Crosby became mayor, as told by Howard Hickson.<br /> <br /><a title="Mayor Crosby story original webpage" href="http://www.gbcnv.edu/howh/MayorCrosby.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">View Original webpage [archive website]</a>
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<p><span style="color: #000066;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Hardly a High School</span></span> <br /><em>University of Nevada, Elko (1874-1885)</em></p>
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<p> Elko High School's "Old Gymnasium" was recently remodeled. It stands on the site of the first University of Nevada. Here's the story: <br /> There was a bustling brashness about young Elko in 1872. It was a railroad town, supply center for area ranches, and freight depot for the mining camps scattered in the hills of northeast Nevada. The community of about one thousand people had come a long way in three short years when Central Pacific Railroad crews laid track across the sagebrush flats next to the Humboldt River. <br /> Miners, wranglers, sheepherders, and railroad men rubbed elbows in the town's 45 saloons. Ranch wives filled wagons with long lists of staples on their monthly trip to town. Mining equipment and materials stacked on the docks of the three railroad warehouses waited for freight wagons. Times were very good. <br /> An advertisement appeared in the <em>Elko Independent</em> asking for bids and proposals to be the site of the state university. The bids were due in ten days and Elkoans wanted the school. So did every other water stop and tent town in the state. Let's not beat around the bush. State institutions were spoils, distributed according to political influence. At the moment, Elko had a great deal of power through Lewis R. "Broadhorns" Bradley, a hometown boy who happened to be governor of Nevada. <br /> On March 1, 1872, university regents opened proposals from Elko, Genoa, Carson City, Washoe City, Washoe Valley, and Reno. Elko's most verbal opponent, Reno, bid $10,000. Elkoans smirked a bit when their overture of $28,000 topped the field. The regents decided they couldn't make the decision and dumped the matter into the legislative chambers for the 1873 session. After attempts to substitute Reno and Winemucca in the bill, Elko won by a large majority in both houses. A preparatory school would be established making the coveted prize only a state supported high school. The battle, more small town rivalry than zeal for education, was over - for awhile. <br /> A site on a hill west of town was selected by the local committee and a well dug. The well did not produce any water. Time was very short, only ten months to build a university building, when the group decided the campus would to be on 21 acres just north of town. The area is now in the middle of Elko. <br /> The university campus was bordered by Court, Ninth, Oak (not a through street) and Twelfth streets. The new building would rise from the sagebrush in the northwest corner of the campus, where the old gymnasium at Elko High Schools now stands (corner of Ninth Street and College Avenue). <br /> The contractor had to begin immediately since the deadline for completion of the $5,000 building was February 15, 1874. They didn't fiddle around in those days. <br /> The main building was 30 by 50 feet, the two wings each 20 by 20 feet. Work was completed a month ahead of time. Meanwhile, there was futile plea after futile plea in the newspaper for people to contribute to the building fund - without a great deal of success. Here's the arithmetic: The original cost was estimated at $5,000; before the smoke cleared, those costs had soared to $15,000. So, what's new in the construction world? Fund raisers had gathered $3,000. The committee went to the county for bailing out. <br /> Commissioners authorized a $12,000 bond. The university building was handed over to the state free and clear but Elko County was saddled with the debt for years. But, the first university in the state stood on a hill overlooking Elko. It was a great day!</p>
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<p><img src="http://www.gbcnv.edu/howh/UNElko3.jpg" alt="" width="395" height="217" /> <br />First University of Nevada Building in Elko. It was on the corner <br />of Ninth Street and College Avenue where the "Old Gymnasium" <br />on the Elko High School campus now stands. <span>Photograph from the</span> <span><em>Illustrated History of the University of Nevada, </em>1924,by Sam Doten</span></p>
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<p> On February 23, 1874, the upstairs assembly hall was cleaned and the floors waxed in readiness of the Grand University Ball to be held that evening. What an evening it was when 65 couples, paying $6 each, came to the festivities in 33 degree below zero weather. In today's coin of the realm, the people paid eighty to ninety dollars for their ticket. It must have been a snobbish affair with only the wealthy attending. <br /> David Robert Sessions, a Princeton graduate, was appointed to head the new school. For four years he conducted a one-man school teaching a list of subjects that might overwhelm a modern high school instructor. <br /><img src="http://www.gbcnv.edu/howh/UNElko4.JPG" alt="" width="110" height="151" align="LEFT" />Sessions enrolled the first class. In his words, "I set about to gather any pupils that were available. I made no formal examination for admission but selected a class, boys and girls, more with reference to what they might learn as to what they knew. Two or three might have stood a fair entrance examination in a high school. The others I took on faith. All told, there were seven." <br /> Members of the first student body in a building built and furnished for one hundred were: Margaret Yeates (Keyser), Jessie Yeates (Hesson), Frank Rodgers, Allen Penrod, James B. Gallagher, Sarah Gillan (Muller), and Charles L. Rood. All were from Elko except Gillan, from Lamoille, and Penrod, from Island Mountain Mining District. Classes began October 12, 1874. All the students earned passing grades that first year. <br /> The next year classes began September 24, 1875, with most of the former students and few new ones showing up for entrance exams. The optimistic editor of the <em>Independent</em> claimed the university had 16 scholars. <br /> Various legislators, mostly those from the towns still trying to get the school located in their community, continually tried to cut finances or stop the money altogether over the next ten years. Somehow, though, funding, albeit miserly, was provided by the state. <br /> A dormitory was constructed at the corner of Ninth and Court streets. When it was finished in mid-January, Superintendent Sessions and his wife promptly moved in.</p>
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<p><img src="http://www.gbcnv.edu/howh/UNElko5.JPG" alt="" width="377" height="307" /> <br />University of Nevada, Elko, dormitory at the corner of <br />Ninth and Court streets. <span>Drawing from <em>History of Nevada, 1881,</em></span> <br /><span>by Thompson and West.</span></p>
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<p> Even with sparse enrollment and money, the first athletic team was fielded in March, 1877. James B. Gallagher, captain of the school's baseball team, issued a challenge to any ten-man team to play for the championship of Elko. <br /> The collegians played a three and one half hour game against a town team calling themselve the Royal Exclusives. The red and white clad youngsters, "looking like cheerfully animated barber poles," slugged out a 31 to 22 win. <br /> When Sessions was elected State Superintendent of Public Instruction he left Elko and the still fledgling school he started still suffering from drastically low enrollment. W.C. Dovey was appointed to replace him. <br /> Newspapers around the state continually complained that the institution was a failure and should never had been given to Elko. It was too far away from the population center. Study at the university cost next to nothing. Tuition and lodging were free. Board was only $30 monthly but students from the western side of the state had to travel upward to three hundred miles on dirt roads or the railroad to get here. With opposition from other towns, newspapers, and legislators the school struggled on. The largest enrollment reached 34 students - in its last year in Elko. Every session of the legislature was a battle of one kind or another - cut funding or move the school - but somehow the University stayed in Elko until 1885. It survived for 11 years. <br /> In the 1885 session of the legislature a bill was introduced to relocate the campus to Carson City. It failed by one vote. On the last day it was decided to move the University to Reno. Elko County would be paid $20,000. The measure passed the Assembly 30 to 9 and the Senate 12 to 6. That was it. On July 10, 1885, the University of Nevada in Elko closed its doors, the victim of jealousies and politics.</p>
<p><em>Epilog</em> <br /> After the students left, the building continued in public service. It was converted into the county hospital until demolished to make room for a gymnasium for Elko High School. <br /> The dormitory was sold and moved north on Ninth Street to the next lot. It became a boarding house and then met the same fate as the main building. It was torn down. <br /> Other than a few memories, all that remains of the first University of Nevada is a street called College Avenue. It runs in front of the site - put in and named after the school left town. <br /> In 1967, with funds collected locally, an ambitious group of Elko people started the first community college in the state. First called Elko Community College, its name was changed to Northern Nevada Community College, and now the institution, located on Elm Street with an attractive campus, is Great Basin College.</p>
<p>Howard Hickson <br />January 7, 2001</p>
<p><strong>Photograph credit:</strong> David S. Sessions, first principal of the University of Nevada, from <em>Nevada State University, 1874-1904, </em>edited by J.E. Church, Jr.</p>
<p><strong>Source</strong>: This vignette is condensed from an article I researched and wrote titled "Hardly a High School," published in the <em>Northeastern Nevada Historical Quarterly,</em> Winter 1974.</p>
<p> <span>©Copyright 2001 by Howard Hickson. Anyone is welcome to quote or use any portion or all of this article but proper credit must be given to the author.</span></p>
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Angie de Braga (GBC VHC) interviews John L'Etoile, Senior Landscape Architect for the Nevada Department of Transportation (Nevada DOT), about the design of the Elko Street-scaping project, using the theme "A Passage through Time."<br /> <br /> <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TFxgxvF45Kw" frameborder="0"></iframe>
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<p>Summary sheet from interview with Jay and Frankie Bilbao, interviewed by Dr. Gretchen Skivington on 25 September 2015.</p>
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Gretchen Skivington
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Frankie and Jay Bilbao Oral History Interview<br />[<a title="Frankie and Jay Bilbao Oral History" href="/omeka/items/show/131" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://humanities.gbcnv.edu/omeka/items/show/131</a>]
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GBC Virtual Humanities Center.
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25 September 2015
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All rights reserved. Use of any content only by express permission of Great Basin College © 2015-2016
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.pdf file; 1 page
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English
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INTERVIEWEE: Jay & Frankie Bilbao Interviewer: Gretchen Skivington Location: Elko, NV Date of interview: 09.25.15 Audio & Video: 1 Length: 1 :08 Language: English (very little Basque) Summary and index: Gretchen Skivington 1. SUMMARY Tom Bilbao, son of Basque immigrants Vicente & Paula Bilbao was born at Jack Creek, NV in 1925. His wife Frances "Frankie" Vicondoa Bilbao and son Jay Bilbao talk about prospecting & mining in northern Elko County and their "Aita", father Tom who was one of the discoverers of different veins along the famous Carlin Trend. Frankie Bilbao talks about her parents Fermin & Madilyn Vicondoa Basque immigrants to Susanville, CA and her move in 1947 to Elko, NV and subsequent marriage to Tom Bilbao. She discusses what it meant to be Basque-American and to be raised in an "Old Country" household. Jay Bilbao, Tom's son discusses how and where his Dad staked claims and mined independently, his interactions with the big mining companies, contracts and working for and with his Dad. Both interviewees speak of Old Country & New World values and what kind of man Tom Bilbao was and how his legacy lives on. II. Key words: : Basques, Basque sheepherding, Jack Creek/Gold Creek/Tuscarora/Mountain City/Elko, Jerritt Canyon, mining in the north country, Carlin Trend, early prospecting 1940s2000, mining companies, process of claim staking/mine maintenance, trapping, Old Country vs. New World Values, Stockmen's Hotel, Elko, Basque culture in Elko III: Names of People mentioned in/from Jack Creek/Gold Creek/Tuscarora/Elko, NV: Vicente & Paula Bilbao, Tom & David Bilbao Dan Bilbao, Jay & Mike Bilbao; Filbert Echevarria, Willis Packer, Walt Whittaker, Lew Eklund.
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Memoria Bizia: The Basque Diaspora Living Heritage Project
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The Elko and Northeastern Nevada contribution to the international Basque Diaspora Living Heritage Project.
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<p>Memoria Bizia is a long-term international project to collect the oral histories of the Basque history of emigration and exile, focusing on both the emigrants and their descendants in the United States and Canada.</p>
<p>Download Memoria Bizia Information Sheet [pdf file]</p>
<p>Memoria Bizia is a project directed by Dr. Pedro J. Oiarzabal and funded by the North American Basque Organizations, the Basque Government, the Etxepare Basque Institute, and the University of Deustro. In collaboration with the Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno, and the University of Nevada, Reno Libraries.</p>
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Gretchen Skivington [GBC]; Anita Franzoia [Elko Basque Community]
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Memoria Bizia: The Basque Diaspora Living Heritage Project
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GBC Virtual Humanities Center
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2014-2016
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Scott A. Gavorsky [VHC]
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Oral Histories and Associated Documents
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English; Basque
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Dr. Gretchen Skivington
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Frankie Bilbao; Jay Bilbao
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Bilbao residence, Elko, NV
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DVD
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1:11:22
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Frankie and Jay Bilbao: Oral History Interview
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Oral history interview with Elko Basque residents Frankie and Jay Bilbao, conducted 25 September 2015 by Dr. Gretchen Skivington.
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<p>Tom Bilbao, son of Basque immigrants Vicente & Paula Bilbao was born at Jack Creek, NV in 1925. His wife Frances "Frankie" Vicondoa Bilbao and son Jay Bilbao talk about prospecting & mining in northern Elko County and their "Aita", father Tom who was one of the discoverers of different veins along the famous Carlin Trend. Frankie Bilbao talks about her parents Fermin & Madilyn Vicondoa Basque immigrants to Susanville, CA and her move in 1947 to Elko, NV and subsequent marriage to Tom Bilbao. She discusses what it meant to be Basque-American and to be raised in an "Old Country" household.<br />Jay Bilbao, Tom's son discusses how and where his Dad staked claims and mined independently, his interactions with the big mining companies, contracts and working for and with his Dad. Both interviewees speak of Old Country & New World values and what kind of man Tom Bilbao was and how his legacy lives on.</p>
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<p>Interview conducted on 25 September 2015 by Dr. Gretchen Skivington.</p>
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Gretchen Skivington
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Virtual Humanities Center at Great Basin College
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25 September 2015
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Scott A. Gavorsky [VHC]
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Memorial Bizia Oral History Consent Form on File:
http://humanities.gbcnv.edu/omeka/items/show/XXX [administrator access only]
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<p style="font-size: 14px;">Howard Hickson's Histories - articles</p>
<ul>
<li><a title="Rio Tinto Stock story" href="http://www.gbcnv.edu/hickson/RioTinto.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rio Tinto Stock: Some People Papered Their Bathroom Walls With Them (1920-1847)</a></li>
<li><a title="How a Gold Rush Begins story" href="http://www.gbcnv.edu/hickson/JarbidgeRush.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How a Gold Rush Begins: Jarbidge, Nevada - 1909</a></li>
</ul>
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streaming video [.mp4 file]
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English; little Basque
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Basques, Basque sheepherding, Jack Creek/Gold Creek/Tuscarora/Mountain City/Elko, Jerritt Canyon, mining in the north country, Carlin Trend, early prospecting 1940s- 2000, mining companies, process of claim staking/mine maintenance, trapping, Old Country vs. New World Values, Stockmen's Hotel, Elko, Basque culture in Elko
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Original Oral History Interview
Basques
Community
Crossroads
Elko
Faculty
Memoria Bizia
Story
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Design for the Human Spirit (Theme 2015-2017)
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Materials related to the VHC Theme for 2015-2017--Design for the Human Spirit.
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What is design, and how does it impact humans? Over the next two years, the Virtual Humanities Center will explore the role of design at GBC, the communities it serves, and the larger world.
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GBC Virtual Humanities Center
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GBC Virtual Humanities Center
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August 2015 - July 2017
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Scott A. Gavorsky [VHC]
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Great Basin College © 2015. All rights reserved.
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"A Passage through Time": Original Artwork for Elko Street-scape Project
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The original concept art for "A Passage through Time," the Elko Street-scape public art project undertaken by the Nevada Department of Transportation in Elko in the spring and summer of 2015. The artwork was produced by John L'Etoile, Senior Landscape Architect of Nevada DOT
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John L'Etoile
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Virtual Humanities Center at Great Basin College
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2015
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Scott A. Gavorsky [VHC]
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<a title="Video Interview with John L'Etoile" href="/omeka/items/show/115" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"Elko Street-scaping Project: Interview with Nevada DOT Architect John L'Etoile" - http://humanities.gbcnv.edu/omeka/items/show/115</a>
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.pdf file
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Vidual only
Community
Crossroads
Design
Design 2015-2017
Elko
NDOT