Happy June 2nd, y’all! Today we are taking a tour around Old Reno searching for areas and any homes which my inlaws lived in 60+ years ago. A freeway rises over where one rental home once stood, a new building on the site of another. Still, it was enjoyable reminiscing and just driving around the city with Gramma Gini, my mother-in-love, seeing these places and jogging her memories…
Our lead photo shows the Reno Courthouse, a gorgeous building with ornate Corinthian capitals set above simple columns which hold up its front portico. It is the place where Gini went to buy their marriage license back in 1961 while Pete was busy working all day at nearby Stead Air Force Base.
This is the statue of Maj. General Jesse Lee Reno, Union officer during both the Mexican-American and Civil Wars, for whom the city of Reno, Nevada, is so named.
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