Looking west from William Street at the Dutch Mill restaurant, corner of William and Carson streets in the 1950s or '60s.
Saturday
150 Years Ago
Benton’s Lake Valley stage lines. J.M. Benton’s daily Stateline to Lake Tahoe connects with the steamer “Esmeralda.” This enables the tourist or traveler to go hence in the morning, ride to the lake and then take passage by steamer for Tahoe City, there to connect with stages for the regular Central Pacific Railway train going east and west. In addition to this accommodation, Benton has a tri-weekly line which runs from Glenbrook to the head of the lake — Yanks — thus affording facilities to those whose business or inclination takes to the upper part of Lake Valley.
140 Years Ago
Don't forget the Hidden Hand on Saturday night. The Hidden Hand is a truly good performance. Don’t miss it.
120 Years Ago
Within 30 days the Comstock Tunnel Company will resume driving the Zadig drift from the Sutro Tunnel to tap the Brunswick lode at Virginia City. The Comstock Company has just awarded a contract to drive the tunnel a distance of 1,000 feet at a rate of 422.50 per foot.
60 Years Ago
Editorial — Many Carson City residents have recently been performing like little children who don’t know better by following Warren Engine Company fire trucks to various blazes in the city.
40 Years Ago
The biggest complaint Carson City merchants have about the downtown district is still the lack of parking. Yet, most of those same people don’t want a parking building as the solution.
Sunday
150 Years Ago
Mrs. Alf Doten has got a gal baby. We shall continue to exchange with the Gold Hill News. Meantime we congratulate Alf and hope he may keep on — and Mrs. Alf too.
140 Years Ago
J.S. Shaw, proprietor of the Hot Springs in Carson, has gone to Bodie for a visit. The campers on the mountains are sending down daily for worms and grasshoppers.
120 Years Ago
The late Frank J. Emmitt, U.S. Marshal for Nevada, had a multitude of loving friends and hundreds of them followed his body to the grave this afternoon. In this city, where he spent many years, the feeling of sadness at his death is felt by all. — Gazette
60 Years Ago
A fireworks display that fizzled in the capital on the Fourth of July is now scheduled to light the Ormsby County skies later this year. The fireworks, which arrived two days late will be paid for anyways by the Ormsby County Democratic Women and country central committee.
40 Years Ago
The running of the Olympic torch through the area Friday lasted less than an hour, but nevertheless attracted thousands of spectators to downtown Carson City and the rural areas along U.S. Highway 395.
Tuesday
150 Years Ago
Mark Twain is reported as having taken Coggin’s comet to run as a show. It is possible a portion of its train will be in Carson simultaneously with the circus, next Monday. If it does not reach us that day, it will pass by, and we are not informed of the date of its return.
140 Years Ago
The army worms have destroyed some of the gardens in Hawthorne and are feeding in force on the greasewood in the suburbs.
120 Years Ago
The Indian School is to assume the properties of a village. Contracts have been let to erect four new houses on the premises and all to be of substantial nature. The contractors who have the work in charge are clearing the ground for active operations.
60 Years Ago
Late filings yesterday brought to 15 the member of persons seeking public office in Ormsby County in the 1964 election. The only republican running for country commissioner is drug store co-owner Keith McDonald.
40 Years Ago
At the movies: Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom, Cannonball Run II, Rhinestone, and Bachelor Party.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.