Downtown Carson during the Nevada Day Parade in about 1950.
Wednesday
150 Years Ago
A heavy load: Hank Monk brought down from the lake, eight passengers, five of whom were from New York.
140 Years Ago
Circus is coming: The young minds of Carson are talking about the circus. There are more boys in search of old bottles and other junk made out of iron to earn the price of a circus ticket. Indians are looking for light jobs with the same end in view.
130 Years Ago
All sorts: The wood drives are coming down the river on the dead jump. Catfish are biting lively at the lake.
100 Years Ago
New Ford agent: A. Pozzi, proprietor of the Carson City garage, situated in what was formerly the temporary county building on South Carson Street, announces that he has been appointed exclusive Ford agent for Carson City and vicinity.
70 Years Ago
“Pioneer Nevada:” Ten thousand books of ‘Pioneer Nevada’ were ordered from the printer by Harold’s Club to meet the demands of summer tourists. The book has been on sale throughout Nevada and San Francisco for six months, and now the original 10,000 are exhausted. Harold’s Club has offered the book to the public as a series.
30 Years Ago
Cscape recognition: Carson City’s Cscape – landscape management program, has received a special merit award for its success in protecting the environment, inspiring others to take environmental action and receiving community goals.
Thursday
150 Years Ago
From Spooner’s Station: Mr. Spooner, the proprietor of the large hotel at Spooner Station, reports a very lively. He is doing a good business and is a great accommodation to those living in the neighborhood. It will control the business at this side of the lake.
140 Years Ago
Political buzzing: Corner whisperings and button holding started the political campaign of 1882. On every street corner knots o’ men can be met earnestly discussing political matters and outline the course of the Republican convention.
130 Years Ago
Whist Clubs outing: The Club went to the lake and took a spin on the meteor. The waves rolled so high on the return trip; several experienced a regular sea sickness. Several threw up their hands and all were happy to land.
100 Years Ago
River levels: All of the rivers of western Nevada continue to carry high water levels, thus more water for irrigation. Reports from Walker Lake district - almost bank full, while streams of Mono and Alpine are too high for good fishing.
70 Years Ago
Work gang: A Carson City work gang made up of ten Indians is scattered through the city, cleaning streets and gutters, painting all the yellow zones and marking them with no parking stencils. They will save the city about $1,000. Members receive special benefits for their work time—two days of time for one day of sentence.
30 Years Ago
Sky crane: A 25-year-old CH-54A Sky crane helicopter is making its swan song. A 20-member crew from the Nevada Army National Guard travelled 1,300 miles to South Dakota to Mount Rushmore to airlift tons of material and equipment from a narrow crevice behind the monument. The material was left by construction crews who worked on the monument from 1927 to 1941.
Friday
150 Years Ago
Lyman P. Frisbie takes extraordinary pains to cater to the appetites of his customers. Not content with importing lamb, veal, lobsters, oysters, etc., from San Francisco and Eastern states, he ordered fresh cod fish from three different states. Frisbie is neither handsome nor better than most restaurant keepers, but he must wear the palm of ingenuity, and we unhesitatingly give it to him.
140 Years Ago
All sorts: The North Ward school house is to be enlarged. The Lake Tahoe hotels are all full of guests. The city authorities are considering the advisability of lighting Carson with gas.
130 Years Ago
Pawns his pants: Carson sports were playing poker at Livingstons when Zachariah Taylor got into a lot of desperate hard luck. While in this melancholy state of mind, he rose and pulled off his pants – laid them down and offered them against five dollars. He lost and threatened to walk the streets in his drawers and was the butt of jocose remarks. He finally sent a boy to his room for more clothes and was able to attend church in the evening.
100 Years Ago
For sale: The Hal Mighels ranch property, 37 acres, alfalfa, pasture, and some grain land. Over twenty flowing artesian wells, 100,000-gallon reservoir with complete electric pumping plant. Modern concrete frost-proof bungalow of five rooms. Brick cellar, barn for six cows, chicken and brooder house. One mile from civic center, just outside city limits. For terms, see owner H. R. Mighels, general delivery.
70 Years Ago
Mormon crickets: According to Jock Taylor, editor of the Reese Reveille, a town that says Mormon crickets are what you see when you have the DT’s. A Mormon cricket is bigger than a grasshopper or locust and has no wings and walks along the ground. It is in a hurry to get places, and he just jumps off and does not care where he lands. It has a large head and mouth and doesn’t care what it eats just so there is enough.
30 Years Ago
More parking: The board approved a $85,000 contract to build a 105-space parking lot between Second and Third and Curry and Nevada streets downtown. The city purchased most of the block earlier in the year for $307,000 from the city’s redevelopment authority.
Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.
