Dinner and Mobsters: Gold Hill Lecture series continues with talk on Frank Sinatra, Mobsters, and the 1963 Cal-Neva Adventure

Event Date: 
June 3, 2021 - 7:00pm

Lecture Series at the Gold Hill Hotel will continue Thursday, June 3, Featuring “Frank Sinatra, the Rat Pack, Mobsters and the 1963 Cal-Neva Adventure” by Guy W. Farmer.

Dinner starts at 4:30 p.m. and lecture starts at 7:00 p.m. and the cost of the lecture is $10 per person.

Guy W. Farmer, the Nevada Appeal’s award-winning political columnist, will speak on “Frank Sinatra, Mobsters and the Cal-Neva Adventure”

Learn all the sordid details firsthand of how Nevada’s gaming control agencies revoked Sinatra’s gambling license for hosting Chicago Godfather Sam “Momo” Giancana at North Lake Tahoe’s Cal-Neva Lodge and Casino.

Guy W. Farmer, the Nevada Appeal’s award-winning political columnist grew up in Seattle and graduated from the University of Washington Journalism School, worked for daily newspapers in Washington and Oregon before coming to Carson City in January, 1962, as Associated Press (AP) capital correspondent.

In 1963 Gov. Grant Sawyer hired him as public information officer for the Nevada Gaming Commission and State Gaming Control Board. Farmer was the “bug” on the phone line when Frank Sinatra called Gaming Board Chairman Edward A. Olsen in a failed attempt to head-off revocation of the singer’s gambling license for hosting Giancana, who was listed in the state’s famous “Black Book” of unsavory characters — gangsters, that is!

Come early and enjoy dinner before the lecture! We serve dinner from 4:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.  We will be serving our "Best of" menu!  Some of the most popular entrees that we serve at the Crown Point Restaurant!  Classics such as "Miner's Tri-tip" and "Crown Point Chicken,”  or how about Fresh Atlantic Salmon or Spinach Ravioli?  We have all these classics and more.

Follow this link to reserve a seat for this exciting evening!
http://goldhillhotel.net/event/lecture-series-continues-frank-sinatra-th...

What's new at the Gold Hill Hotel?

Friday night Jack Di Carlo plays in our dining room during dinner 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. starting May 21 and continuing every Friday night.

Happy Hour specials are held every night from 5 to 7 p.m.

Miner's Monday Specials announced:

Monday May 17th we will have a special Pizza Buffet with our Chef creating some of his favorite pies!

Monday May 24th we will have a Buffalo Chicken Wing bar with multiple flavors of wings for your tasting pleasure.

Dinner is held Thursday through Monday 4:30 p.m. until 8:30 p.m.

Gold Hill Hotel
1540 Main Street
Gold Hill, NV. 89440
775-847-0111
www.goldhillhotel.net
info@goldhillhotel.net

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