Reno Bank Club, 1926 to 1952. The Bank Club was located on the S. W. corner of Douglas Alley and Center Street next to the Palace Club. This popular club offered a variety of games, both before and after the advent of legal gambling. Its owners, Bill Graham and Jim McKay, also operated the “Stockade”, Reno’s notorious brothel. In 1952 the Bank Club was combined with the Golden Hotel to form the Golden Bank Club. Following a change of ownership, the Golden Bank Club burned in April of 1962.

This is the interior of the Bank Club

The Monte Carlo was located upstairs at 216 North Virginia Street in Reno. This photo postcard was taken in 1930. The Monte Carlo Closed the following year.

This photo postcard pictures anxious gamblers waiting to try their luck at Reno’s Owl Club, located at 143 East Commercial Row. This 1931 postcard, sent to a friend in Seattle, Washington from “Ellie” bears the following message: “You see innumerable places like this filled with the worst looking specimens of humanity trying to get a million for a nickel”. The Owl Club closed in 1937.

1930’s Reno street scene showing the Reno Club.

This 1930’s photo postcard shows the interior of Reno’s Silver Slipper Club, located out toward Sparks at 1410 East Fourth Street. This club operated from 1931 to 1941 by Felix Turillas, in association with the notorious Bill Graham and Jim McKay, Reno crime bosses.

This scene, along Reno’s Commercial Row, greeted railway passengers as they disembarked in the early 1900’s. The Wine House, Louvre Lacey and Oberon Clubs are visible. Douglas Alley ran immediately behind these buildings, between Center and Virginia Streets.