Naughty Nevada nostalgia among items sold at auction
RENO -- Rare items reflecting a shadier side of Nevada's past, including Mustang Ranch brothel memorabilia and a copy of the original Black Book of people excluded from the state's casinos, have been sold at auction in Reno.
The Mustang Ranch items, including nude photos of working women at the infamous brothel taken in the 1970s and 1980s, fetched $3,000 from what auction organizers would only identify as an "institution of higher learning."
The Black Book, which features names, information and photos of the first dozen or so people barred from entering Nevada casinos, went for $5,250 to an unknown buyer.
The naughty nostalgia was among 1,400 items sold last week at the auction staged by Holabird-Kagin Americana.
The top seller was a California Gold Rush coin that went for $205,000.
