Alcohol has always been a taboo in Boulder City. When the town was created by a federal company in 1931, alcohol sales were not allowed. That policy stayed in place until 1969, well after the end of Prohibition.
That didn’t stop Hoover Dam workers from going just outside Boulder City limits to places like Railroad Pass Casino and Stagecoach Saloon. Based on a loosely documented history, the Stagecoach first opened in 1932, changed locations several times through the ’60s and closed on U.S. 93 around 2008.
“People would ride their Harleys in. There were gunfights in there. It was a rowdy kind of bar,” says Grant Turner, a born-and-raised Boulder City resident and restaurateur…