I moved to Reno in 1977, and thought I'd died and gone to heaven. Great, fun place to live, raise a family and make a living.
When I left in 1986, it had doubled in size, and had started to become the mad house it is today.
Reno has the Peppermill, Atlantis and GSR, all well removed from the old downtown 'strip'. They are all nice and removed from the madness, along with the Sparks Nugget. Downtown Reno is in disrepair. Went to a Reno Aces game several years ago and downtown was overrun with homeless and meth...
I've lived in Nevada for almost 50 years, and Las Vegas has changed probably more than other places, including Reno. It was a lot of fun in the 70's and 80's.
I've avoided LV whenever possible for over 20 years.
Last Christmas, I bought my wife two tickets to the AC DC concert this weekend...
I was driving a 4wd pickup in rural, southern Nevada in about 1978-79, near the 'test site' when I saw what I described as a 'flying triangle'. No one believed me. Yet decades later, I realized I'd seen a prototype of the B2.
I expect a lot of the 'UFO's' being reported today are military...