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I just completed my annual pilgrimage to the LVA offices to pick up my MRB when I had a question, “What’s the history of the LVA HQ?”
Huntington Press, publisher of the Las Vegas Advisor, started life at Anthony Curtis' four-bedroom house on the west side of town off Spring Mountain Road. This was in the 1980s. The house was a split plan, with the master bedroom on one side and the three other bedrooms on the other side of the kitchen, dining room, and living room. There were only two employees in those days; Anthony's office occupied one bedroom, the phone order taker and all-around gal Friday were in another. (The third was the guest room.) When it was time for LVA production, a freelance graphic artist arrived around 11 p.m. and she and Anthony worked all night to get the issue to the printer first thing the next morning.
When the business (and Anthony's family) expanded, it was time to move out of the house and into an office/warehouse space on S. Valley View a few blocks south of W. Tropicana. The company started producing books, which were stored in the warehouse, and with a bona fide place of business, it needed a receptionist. The gal Friday (some of you probably remember Bethany) transitioned into the graphic-artist role, producing the newsletter and the books. That office, by the way, was razed a long time ago, replaced by newer industrial spaces.
That location lasted a few years. Then Anthony, a firm believer in businesses owning their own real estate, bought the property on the corner of S. Procyon and W. Twain, the main building serving as the office, the out building as the warehouse. Huntington Press started to expand rapidly then (1998 or so), filling the five offices with employees and equipment. So much was going on in those days that the company actually got too big for the space; luckily, around 2005, the two-story block building next door came up for sale.
And that's where it stands today, with the used-car operation renting the corner building and Huntington Press having occupied the current building for the past 20 years or so. Plenty of room for all the books, the employees, and some of their stored stuff too.