Looking west from William Street at the Dutch Mill restaurant, corner of William and Carson streets in the 1950s or '60s.
Sunday
145 years ago
Still the workmen are pegging away at the bed of the Treadway ditch, getting it in readiness for the stone sides and bottom. This work is now going on west of Carson street. It is a much needed undertaking.
140 years ago
In Brief. There is nothing to favorable to report in the condition of James Kinkhead.
120 years ago
The Nevada State Band, after considerable delay, finally succeeded in sucking Mr. George Hendricks as leader and will at once resume practice. He left a band of thirty pieces to assume the position offered at Carson and comes here with “up to date” ideas concerning the handling of the musical organization.
80 years ago
(Honolulu) The army unexpectedly ordered that soldiers with fixed bayonets stand vigilant guard at all power stations and key points. Soldiers were suddenly called from the bars and streets.
60 years ago
Ormsby County residents should check their street markers while going to and from work every day. If not, they may come home and find that they are living in a different named street which they left in the morning. County Planning Commissioners are now fixing street naming and numbering, following years of naming and numbering in new residential areas without county approval.
20 years ago
Patrons of a new and improved Ormsby House may be able to hit the slots and bar on the way to their cars. The company, which has been closed for more than a year during a $10 million remodel, is asking for city approval to turn part of the ground floor of the seven-story parking garage into gaming, bar and snack bar space.
Tuesday
145 years ago
The Royal Marionettes are delighting the little people (and big ones too) at Virginia City.
140 years ago
During the recent spell of cold weather the children at the State Orphan’s home is safe to say, had a better time than most little ones. Nearly the whole of the Home ground was a sheet of ice, and the old horse was pulling the sled leaded with children about the premises. They receive more wholesome food and better care, in all respects, than one-half of the children in the State.
120 years ago.
Empire Plaster. Two years ago Empire Plaster was unknown on this coast; no it is used by 90 percent of the contracting plasterers in San Francisco and exclusively by all of the plaster decorating firms, and is rapidly finding a ready market up and down the coast.
80 years ago
An American volunteer Air Force of 500 pilots and mechanics and 200 war planes is standing by in Yunnan to protect the Burma road, Shanghai reported.
60 years ago
U.S. scientists rocketed a chimpanzee named Enos twice around the globe today and then displayed their finesse by returning him safely to earth.
20 years ago
The Carson wandering skipper, a tiny, tawny-orange butterfly that is no bigger than a thumbnail and whose adulthood lasts a mere two weeks, has been given emergency protection under the Endangered Species Act. Once found near Lompa Lane, it is now only found near Honey Lake near Pyramid. The butterfly has not been spotted in Carson City since 1997.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.