Post #159349 by boutiki on Mon, May 16, 2005 2:09 PM

On 2005-05-16 10:54, the drunken hat wrote:
do you know when dick's moved from downtown to inside the nugget in sparks?

You know, I don't know when they moved into the current location. I'm not sure why, but I was always under the impression that Trader Dick's moved a very short distance... like across the street. I've been to Trader Dick's several times in the past 7 years, but I have to admit that I'm fairly ignorant about much of the history of the Nugget (or other Reno landmarks for that matter). The Trader Dick's postcard I have is the exterior shot on page 139 of Tiki Quest (I think it's in the Book of Tiki as well) and the back says it is in Sparks, "three miles from Reno".

I know there are collectors in the Reno area who would know a great deal about the history of Trader Dick's and the Nugget and would have examples of different generations of the mugs and bowls used there. Maybe they could enlighten us a bit.

Based on your description of the two-tone bowl, maybe it was actually an earlier piece. I think it's safe to say that it's less common than the fully glazed coco-brown version.

-Duke