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) the ashtrays! Also a couple of Fortune Club key tags...one red fob has the initials "RB", the clear one is initialled "FC" (a patron or "Fortune Club"?), the other red one is plain:
Here's a promo card from the Nevada Club...present this to get a free box of matches, and 2 key tags
A cool match holder from the Nevada Club
The three buildings that eventually made up the Nevada Club...Fortune Club, Nevada Club and the Western Union Building
After the 3 clubs (Western Union Building apparently become the Zodiac Club) were combined under a new 75 foot marquee, all now known as the Nevada Club (The center portion was the Fortune Club)
The Nevada Club published a magazine called "This is Las Vegas". We have an 8th anniversary issue from 1959. I just love one of the little stories in it... (I posted this about a year ago, apologies for the re-run but I hope a few newbies will enjoy it )
"The Nevada Club was successful from its beginning. By 1957 it consisted of three adjoining buildings. However, there were 16-inch concrete walls between the three buildings and legal and engineering problems had to be solved before the walls could come down. In 1957 the only bar was in the Nevada Club itself. Cocktail waitresses were prohibited by law from walking into the street with drinks--and players in the Fortune and Zodiac clubs were as thirsty as those in the Nevada Club. Holes were sawed in the ceilings of all three clubs and waitresses tripped demurely across the roofs to serve their drinks. That situation did not last long, however. Soon the separating walls came down and the three small rooms merged into the Nevada Club as it is today."
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