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The rocker sign an exterior, vertical display in which the letters spelling out Golden Gate rock back and forth is among the features that have been retained for the current iteration of the hotel.
In the ceiling above the gaming pit at the Golden Gate Hotel & Casino are 20 shiny, dark glass panels through which casino employees looked for cheaters. They d lie on their stomach on a railroad cart that rolled along a track in an overhead space no more than 36 inches high above the two-way mirrors.
The rudimentary surveillance system installed in the 1950s, long supplanted by eye in the sky camera technology, is just one of the many reminders of the downtown Las Vegas hotel-casino s long history.
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Reno Gazette Journal
LAS VEGAS – To stay at the Golden Gate Hotel & Casino is to travel back in time, reports the Reno Gazette Journal, a USA TODAY Network publication.
In a city known to implode the old in spectacular fashion to make way for the new, this downtown property is celebrating a rare milestone – its 115th birthday.
Opened in 1906, the hotel-casino was the first to welcome guests to the famed Fremont Street corridor. Its address tells that precise story: 1 Fremont Street.
Step inside the hotel-casino, and you’ll find other relics that were also firsts in Las Vegas history. Behind glass in the hotel lobby is a replica of the first telephone installed in Las Vegas. The number? “Ring 1.”