Film of downtown Reno, Nevada shot in 1943. A must-see for anyone interested in Reno history! Note: This upload is for historical and educational purposes only.
What a great film! Not many people outside of Nevada realize that Reno was a much bigger magnet for gamblers than Las Vegas until the 1950s. I think the narrator said near the start of this clip that most of Nevada's residents lived within thirty miles of Reno when this film was made.
I'm third generation living in or around Reno. I'd often heard about the way things were before and how much better it was in the old days. I don't remember the tossing of the ring or kissing the column, the marriage/divorce thing still stands though. It's a shame so many of those buildings aren't there anymore. Thanks for posting!
@H.O. thats not true for me, I have been around the world and keep coming back to Reno, Nevada. I guess I'm an outlier, anomaly, rarity...but than again I see your point, when I passaway in Reno ,NV, sadly nothing stays forever. The good old days are still with us, I believe if you look deep inside the people of Reno (the good souls), the parks - there dedicatiors ie. Richard W. Schoot motto- a man who cared more about the community than himself.
This is why I love Reno- the rich history, this film alone is worth living here- seeing the people, how they dressed, played, lived, stayed married forever. Im going to keep Reno great in my heart- and do my best to make Reno, NV great again. So the locales, officials, can once again say Welcome to romantic Reno, Nevada- to anyone who visits this truly peaceful, compassionate city.
This was really cool! I was on the bridge last week where the lady tosses the ring. Midweek, in March, it was really quiet downtown. I was surprised at the lack of people and cars. Really cool to stroll around on our trip then come home & find footage from so long ago in spots I had just enjoyed. Thanks for the upload!
NonProfitGirl --This Virginia Street bridge was finally replaced in 2016...There is a beautiful new steel bridge there now...Two of the lampposts were kept...
Funny, when I was once visiting Reno I was standing at that bridge looking down at the Truckee River and I saw a big black object going along the bottom. At first I thought it was some kind of strange huge fish, then I realized it was a person in full scuba gear. When I mentioned this to a passerby, he said that the scuba diver was looking for wedding rings that people throw off the bridge after their divorce. That's the first I heard of that custom.
Just like everywhere else Look at the streets of San Francisco Full of shit needles and syringes Thank you Nancy pelosi and Maxine Waters and the rest of the liberal idiots
@@marybuford5748 Liberal policies have ruined this country It started in the late 60’s with that generation and the hippies You look at whether it be Reno or San Francisco in the early 60’s and look at it starting in the late 60’s to now there’s people that have no ambition and drive to get ahead and they all want handouts Druggies needles and syringes and shit on the streets Politicians like Pelosi who are multi-millionaires pushing their liberal policies meanwhile living in their mansions behind big gates
@@dondressel452 Stop trolling ona history video... Mary Buford is right -- Even small towns in Kansas have drug problems. lt's cavemen like you who stop progress in all areas...
Ah Reno, bittersweet memories of living by UNR and then Midtown, quaint, strange little city where I got my first vintage boots, could dance drunk until 5am and head down to Awful Awful to chow down on a massive greasy burger before walking up to the parking lot rooftop of El Dorado to smoke a blunt and get high while starting at the traffic on main, before staggering home on 11th st. Miss you sometimes Reno. =)
I had this video but it was accidentally erased!!! I've been searching for it ever since. I've lived in Reno since 1969 and really LOVE this video. YES, PLEASE repost entire video or let us know how we can get it. Thanx
Loved Reno back years ago. My folks were married in the courthouse back in Feb. of 1941 and stayed married until their deaths in 1972 up in Virginia City. I was married in Virginia City in 1969 and divorced in the courthouse in Reno back in 1976. Lived in Reno until 1979.
My now husband and I moved here and married here in Reno Nevada.He's my first and hopefully only.Reno is okay but kinda boring.Hard to make friends due to all the stuckup people and homeless people here.
Back in the 70's some guy spent weeks with his scuba equipment looking for rings. He found only several cheap phony ones. I got married and divorced in Reno years later. Still happens. I but my ex didn't throw the ring I gave her in the Truckee River it cost me a months pay. That's what the jeweler told me I should at least spend if I "loved her". For sure I was stupid, indeed!
And the funny thing is the Washoe county courthouse steps in the building are still the same they haven't changed at all the street layouts the same doing thing that's changed are the buildings and the people have gotten shittier and the funny thing is I've actually found a few of those wedding rings I still have them to this day 😂
Time to get a snorkel and go diving in the Truckee River for diamond and gold rings. There must be millions and millions of discarded rings just waiting for me to get my greedy hands on.
Still love reno,so what we all have dirty backgrounds in nevada,what do you expect we live in a gambling town!haahahahhahahaha! Reno is a jr Las Vegas! All the locals been in washoe county jail,for fighting, or drugs ,then it will be handed down to the next generation and so on.
Heard the narrator use the word : " Gay " a few times , back in the 1940s it was associated with being happy , but now it relates to state of being a very sad and bitter homosexual .
I live in reno right now. Boy has it changed...
megamantrinity yeah. It's still a nice little city
Changed alot, dang I also live in Reno
@@northern_law3005 a lot changed, i also live in reno
I wish I lived back then. Its full of homeless people now.
@@c4yd3n49 There are lots of places you can go that aren't. Yes though, lots of homless people around downtown and midtown.
What a great film! Not many people outside of Nevada realize that Reno was a much bigger magnet for gamblers than Las Vegas until the 1950s. I think the narrator said near the start of this clip that most of Nevada's residents lived within thirty miles of Reno when this film was made.
11 years late but yeah, until the 60s or 70s, only around 150,000-200,000 people lived in Nevada, I’d love to visit Reno one day
@@Tony_Soprano2 Better late than never! Thank you for your message.
TBH, 95 percent of this state still lives within 40 minute of either of these cities
I'm third generation living in or around Reno. I'd often heard about the way things were before and how much better it was in the old days. I don't remember the tossing of the ring or kissing the column, the marriage/divorce thing still stands though. It's a shame so many of those buildings aren't there anymore. Thanks for posting!
@H.O. thats not true for me, I have been around the world and keep coming back to Reno, Nevada. I guess I'm an outlier, anomaly, rarity...but than again I see your point, when I passaway in Reno ,NV, sadly nothing stays forever. The good old days are still with us, I believe if you look deep inside the people of Reno (the good souls), the parks - there dedicatiors ie. Richard W. Schoot motto- a man who cared more about the community than himself.
This is why I love Reno- the rich history, this film alone is worth living here- seeing the people, how they dressed, played, lived, stayed married forever. Im going to keep Reno great in my heart- and do my best to make Reno, NV great again. So the locales, officials, can once again say Welcome to romantic Reno, Nevada- to anyone who visits this truly peaceful, compassionate city.
Man how Reno has changed I wish it was still like that
What hasn't changed? We wish some of you posters had not skipped 10th grade history...
Practically every city in the world is different than they were 80 years ago
I miss the Mapes Hotel so much
It was gorgeous!!
Yes, but the Mapes was so tiny...the hotel rooms and the casino..far too small for today's market...
it looks so much more organized then!O.O
This was really cool! I was on the bridge last week where the lady tosses the ring. Midweek, in March, it was really quiet downtown. I was surprised at the lack of people and cars. Really cool to stroll around on our trip then come home & find footage from so long ago in spots I had just enjoyed. Thanks for the upload!
NonProfitGirl --This Virginia Street bridge was finally replaced in 2016...There is a beautiful new steel bridge there now...Two of the lampposts were kept...
Born and raised since 72' I couldn't imiagine living anywhere else, PROUD!
Born and raised since ‘67. Hubs born and raised since ‘63. Now our son is a proud native. Wouldn’t live anywhere else.
Oh yeah
born and raised since 2005
Reno....does look so much better back then than it does now...
Funny, when I was once visiting Reno I was standing at that bridge looking down at the Truckee River and I saw a big black object going along the bottom. At first I thought it was some kind of strange huge fish, then I realized it was a person in full scuba gear. When I mentioned this to a passerby, he said that the scuba diver was looking for wedding rings that people throw off the bridge after their divorce. That's the first I heard of that custom.
Wow its crazy that most of the people in this video have already passed. Its amazing how fast time Flys bye.
Oh the Mapes what beautiful place that was .
Wish it was still this clean.
This is amazing to see.
But it is sad because now that area is just full of tweakers!!!!
Just like everywhere else
Look at the streets of San Francisco
Full of shit needles and syringes
Thank you Nancy pelosi and Maxine Waters and the rest of the liberal idiots
@@dondressel452 tell it like it is Don !
@@dondressel452 You can't blame Pelosi and waters for what is happening in reno.
@@marybuford5748 Liberal policies have ruined this country
It started in the late 60’s with that generation and the hippies
You look at whether it be Reno or San Francisco in the early 60’s and look at it starting in the late 60’s to now there’s people that have no ambition and drive to get ahead and they all want handouts
Druggies needles and syringes and shit on the streets
Politicians like Pelosi who are multi-millionaires pushing their liberal policies meanwhile living in their mansions behind big gates
@@dondressel452 Stop trolling ona history video... Mary Buford is right -- Even small towns in Kansas have drug problems. lt's cavemen like you who stop progress in all areas...
Awesome video-it is amazing how clear this is online..Reno looks cool...
Great footage of RENO.
Really cool color footage. I am thinking this has got to be very rare.
I was born in year 1983 and I live near Reno, Nevada so that means this video was shot 40 years before I was born.
So crazy, not a crackhead in sight
The court house has not changed
good old days everything changed today
Thanks a lot. :)
Great footage of Reno ,,new friend here..#jalyncharita
Ah Reno, bittersweet memories of living by UNR and then Midtown, quaint, strange little city where I got my first vintage boots, could dance drunk until 5am and head down to Awful Awful to chow down on a massive greasy burger before walking up to the parking lot rooftop of El Dorado to smoke a blunt and get high while starting at the traffic on main, before staggering home on 11th st. Miss you sometimes Reno. =)
Miguel--sadly, the Nugget Casino closed because of the Covid pandemic..No more Awful-Awful...
I had this video but it was accidentally erased!!! I've been searching for it ever since. I've lived in Reno since 1969 and really LOVE this video. YES, PLEASE repost entire video or let us know how we can get it. Thanx
Outstanding, thanks for posting.
Way before my time BUT reno was a lot nicer back then it seems......
Samuel Pharris Reno isn't bad. It has it's bad parts like every other city
I doubt you ever been to Reno
Samuel Pharris Every place was nicer back then. That stigma doesn't stop with Reno...
*_Reno sucks! DON’T MOVE HERE!_*
@@lowerf0_rtyei8ht92 That's wrong..."every place was nicer"--sheer nonsense, again...
Brb, gonna go hunt wedding rings in the river.
Thank-you very much for this clip. Is there any chance you could upload the whole short? Pretty please?
Neat -- had never heard of these travel reels.
Love Reno
From Las Vegas
Loved Reno back years ago. My folks were married in the courthouse back in Feb. of 1941 and stayed married until their deaths in 1972 up in Virginia City. I was married in Virginia City in 1969 and divorced in the courthouse in Reno back in 1976. Lived in Reno until 1979.
Such a romantic story
Was this filmed in color or was it colorized?
Filmed in color....
Worked for Tholl Fence in the 80's. Also Jeremiahs which got pulled down I hear.
1943, damn my grandpa was in GERMANY fightin' Nazis at that time before going back home to Reno, crazy!
Can't believe they're going to demolish that bridge and replace it with it with such a monstrosity.
There's some Carson City in there too, right?
That was great as so one who has stood on that bridge several times cool to see
Ahhh my favorite town.......tis where i've lived my whole life! I love it!!!!
Cuanto cambio en la actualidad 😮
I kept telling people I ♥️ Reno.
I LOVE reno!!
At 3:14 Harrahs would be on the right and the Rennasaice would be on the left they werent there in the 40's but yeah
I love the way reno is now!
I love Renooooo :3
What? No hookers on 4th st?
I live in Reno
Oh man I would go to this place annually from California.
My now husband and I moved here and married here in Reno Nevada.He's my first and hopefully only.Reno is okay but kinda boring.Hard to make friends due to all the stuckup people and homeless people here.
Amber Wallace there's stuck up people and homeless people everywhere. If you stick near south Reno, you'll see like two homeless people every month
You sound very boring. Read a book.
I live in Reno 😏
Wow
I just moved out of reno... I miss it
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Back in the 70's some guy spent weeks with his scuba equipment looking for rings. He found only several cheap phony ones.
I got married and divorced in Reno years later. Still happens. I but my ex didn't throw the ring I gave her in the Truckee River it cost me a months pay. That's what the jeweler told me I should at least spend if I "loved her". For sure I was stupid, indeed!
Coolhand Luke SCUBA gear? For the Truckee river?? it’s only a few feet deep near that bridge. Even less in some spots.
Love his pronunciation of conjugal.
ConJUgal?
holy shit, my dad works right across from the court
Reno is a wild city now
why is there a white hand picture on the side
And the funny thing is the Washoe county courthouse steps in the building are still the same they haven't changed at all the street layouts the same doing thing that's changed are the buildings and the people have gotten shittier and the funny thing is I've actually found a few of those wedding rings I still have them to this day 😂
Omg thats crazy, i barely moved to reno, and its pretty nice
Time to get a snorkel and go diving in the Truckee River for diamond and gold rings.
There must be millions and millions of discarded rings just waiting for me to get my greedy hands on.
Its crazy how much shittier it got
When the Mob was in Reno well probably still is? 🤔
I heard the word 'gay' used three times. I don't think it meant the same thing back then.
Reno before all the homeless encampments!
One out of five or six marriages
More like three out of six now
their gonna tear down that bridge
Go wolfpack
I live in Reno and now it’s all homeless
#Untrue
@@bobcuster8930true
Saludos detere arelles santos ke esta reno
Oh so that old Structure That said reno was Wow very old. But I seen the old structure that's say reno. Then built another one that's more nicer
I saw t a picture of the city is it show alot of tree ALOT
Still love reno,so what we all have dirty backgrounds in nevada,what do you expect we live in a gambling town!haahahahhahahaha! Reno is a jr Las Vegas! All the locals been in washoe county jail,for fighting, or drugs ,then it will be handed down to the next generation and so on.
#Nonsense.
It's a gambling town...It's a drinking town..
Heard the narrator use the word : " Gay " a few times , back in the 1940s it was associated with being happy , but now it relates to state of being a very sad and bitter homosexual .
You do seem well versed in being a sad and bitter queen yourself
"Gay little metropolis"--lol!
vatonorteno lol I think they mean happy
We’ll have a gay old time!
LOL reno and divorce, very related as this town is full of misery
ain't much going on in downtown reno 2016. not much to do outside of the casino
If you're as boring as you.
the only thing that hasn't changed is the divorce rate haha