48 - Friday. December 14.

19SU - North Grore News

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Famous collection

on view in Nevada

AT ONE time, Bill Har- rah’s car museum near Reno, Nevada displayed over 1,400 automobiles, the largest collection in the world.

After Harrah died suddenly in 1978, this magnificent collection, atong with Harrah's hotel and ca- sino empire, was sold to the Holi- day Corporation. Most of the cars were then auctioned off to various collectors and museums around the world.

Many Nevada residents and car enthusiasts mourned the loss of this great collection, and there was considerable pressure to keep it together. Holiday Corporation generously donated 175 vehicles, then worth $18 million, and a $3 million library to the William F. Harrah foundation, 2 public foundation started with the intent of building a new rauseum.

Ten years and millions of dollars later, this fantastic new museum was opened to the public.

“At 105,000 square feet, the facility is the largest space in the U.S.A. for an automobile muscuni,"’ says Charles C. Hilton,

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museum is car lover’s Valhalla

A 1936 Mercedes-Benz 500K is part of the collection at the National Automobile Museum in Reno, Nevada.

acting executive director.

“We tried to combine both his- toric factors and amusement aspects in this facility,’* Hilton said. **We have an original theatre presentation, four period Sirect scenes and four galleries which house the body of the collection."”

The four ‘streets’, called Turn- of-the-Century Street, ’30s Street, "50s Street and Modern Street, come complete with pavement,

curbs, parking meters and period architecture. Cars from each era are ‘parked’ at the side of the road next to authentic looking store-fronts, movie theatres, side- walks. garages, and so on.

To add realism to the effect. skylights above the streets provide daylight, and each sireet ends at a large glass window, giving the il- lusion that the street continues

outside beyond the building.

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