attorney complained there were many more bars in Reno after Prohibition than before the law was ratified. The Meyers brothers shipped it from Virginia City to Reno.Īlthough federal agents enforced the Volstead Act in the Silver State, local authorities weren’t much interested in keeping Nevada dry. Legend says the fixture had come to Nevada around Cape Horn aboard a sailing ship. The backroom had a 22-foot-long oak bar along its right side. The other portal on the right, with “Ladies’ Entrance” inscribed on frosted glass, opened into a narrow aisle between two rows of small tables and booths. A doorway at the end of the counter was marked “members only.” A cigar counter was on the left of the small room behind one door. It had a 20-foot-wide frontage with two side-by-side doors facing the street. “If there were 30 people in the place, it was packed,” one patron recalled. There was nothing ritzy about the original Little Waldorf. The current management, who leased the business in 2006, came up with a fanciful origin story connecting it with the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, but that’s marketing, not history. He dubbed the joint the Little Waldorf to distinguish it from his sibling’s operation on the east side of Virginia Street. No one could have predicted that kind of popularity or longevity in 1922, the second year of the great national mistake called Prohibition.Ĭharles Meyers, who with his brother, owned an upscale dinner house called The Waldorf Club, opened his own place at 343 N. The tavern is woven into the fabric of Northern Nevada. Its link to the university and its teams has been its guiding star the connection it made with its patrons endures across generations.
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In a city that has always offered a cacophony of taverns, diners and restaurants – as well as free drinks and cheap buffets in casinos - the Little Wal has not only survived, but prospered. PHOTO/NEAL COBB/NEVADA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: The front of the original Little Waldorf at 343 N. It was such a great place and we loved the owners, Lance and Rita (Morton)… We loved the Little Waldorf, and we never got over it.”
“We lived in that place when we were going to school. “There’s so much wonderful, crazy stuff to remember,” said Joan Arrizabalaga, 80, a Reno artist who was a University of Nevada student in the late 1950s.
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