Bringing the Nugget to Sparks

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Time and Place with Alicia Barber

Bringing the Nugget to Sparks

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Today, the cities of Reno and Sparks make up one large metropolitan area. But unlike Reno, Sparks wasn’t known as a destination for gambling until the 1950s. Historian Alicia Barber tells the story of the Sparks casino that changed all of that, in this episode of “Time & Place.”