U-Haul TR: Reno, NV - U-Haul SuperGraphics on Waymarking.com

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This museum, in it's present location, opened in 1989, funded by several public and private donations and grants. The building was designed to hold the over 200 cars in the collection, but the actual history of the cars goes back much further, to one of the state's gaming pioneers, Bill Harrah, founder of Harrah's Casinos. Harrah collected an enormous amount of autos during his lifetime, and housed them in a series of warehouses on Glendale Avenue in Sparks. Once a year, Harrah would open the collection to the community for free, and the scope and sheer mass of the collection was staggering. Housed in so many buildings, it was almost impossible to see it one day. Harrah died in 1978, and the Holiday Corporation purchased Harrah's, and the Harrah's Auto Collection, in 1980. They continued to house it in the Sparks warehouses for several years, but then began to dismantle the collection, selling much of it at auction. The public, fondly remembering the collection and its importance to automotive history, cried out. The National Automobile Museum could not house all the autos in the collection, and many had already been sold, but they did manage to raise the funds to build the museum and save 200 autos (175 were donated by the Holiday Corporation) from the Harrah's Collection, which are on display today. See the website here "Default Image and any additional cited content and/or images from the U-Haul SuperGraphics website are used with permission from U-Haul International."

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