Alcohol has ever been a taboo successful Boulder City. When the municipality was created by a national institution successful 1931, intoxicant income were not allowed. That argumentation stayed successful spot until 1969, good aft the extremity of Prohibition.
That didn’t halt Hoover Dam workers from going conscionable extracurricular Boulder City limits to places similar Railroad Pass Casino and Stagecoach Saloon. Based connected a loosely documented history, the Stagecoach archetypal opened successful 1932, changed locations respective times done the ’60s and closed connected U.S. 93 astir 2008.
“People would thrust their Harleys in. There were gunfights successful there. It was a rowdy benignant of bar,” says Grant Turner, a born-and-raised Boulder City nonmigratory and restaurateur.
“I went successful determination with a buddy the nighttime earlier it got torn down. ... A period later, I’m walking down the streets of Boulder City, and this feline pulls up successful a flatbed truck, and helium has the aged antique wood bar. I’m 22. He says, ‘I’ll merchantability you this barroom for $23,000.’ I don’t person $23,000. I don’t person anyplace to enactment a bar. I lamented ne'er getting my hands connected that bar.”
Long communicative short, Turner tracked down the barroom astatine a trailer parkland years later, yet bought it and acceptable retired to rehabilitate it for his caller concept, Skinny Bar. But by immoderate misunderstanding with 1 of his workers, “a barroom from 1880 built successful Norway that had gone astir the world,” was accidentally chopped into pieces.
“We ended up salvaging, wholly rebuilding. The ornate stuff, we had to glue it onto a portion of wood and nonstop it to this institution for them to scan it and carve it retired of achromatic oak,” helium says. “When you look astatine it, you wouldn’t cognize what’s archetypal and what’s new. It conscionable looks much beauteous than ever.”
The portion of past present serves arsenic the centerpiece of Skinny Bar. And that’s not the lone motion to Boulder City’s past.
On Skinny Bar’s rooftop, the Cement Slipper speakeasy’s sanction was inspired by stories of mob assassination tactics, which resurfaced successful 2022 erstwhile a tube with quality remains was recovered washed up connected Lake Mead’s shores.
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